Posthumously lauded in the Academy Award-winning film The Imitation Game and at universities around the world, the brilliant mathematician, logician, and cryptographer Alan Turing comes to life in this short documentary.

A 45-year-old ex-travesti of Kurdish origin earns his living from garbage recycling. He shares his gain with the neighborhood’s poor and donates the rest to the charity houses, the army and the mosque. Some nights, he also offers his body to men in search of pleasure.

Just as outrageous as his most famous film Thundercrack! is Curt McDowell’s Confessions, in which McDowell, a graduate student at San Francisco Art Institute, opens his film with a confession to his parents, listing his sins of the flesh...

A landmark of both experimental and queer filmmaking, Kenneth Anger’s film is a bizarre, disturbing dreamscape of violation, rape, and homoerotic sadomasochism.