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Homegrown

Nine fabulously queer shorts with homegrown roots in the San Francisco Bay!

The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence invite you to a special gathering in A Rite of Passage. The music video for L|M|T’s Born to Love You explores conflict and connection through modern dance, proving that when opposites attract, the results can be explosive. Play Guitar Hero in a vintage, queer, and sexy way in Guitar Idol. In Cruising Elsewhere, oral histories and spectral pornography resurrect memories of a once legendary Russian River gay beach. Deana McGuffin, a New Mexico bootmaker, is approached by a Canadian artist and a San Francisco tattoo artist to create a gay-themed cowboy boot, in Bootwmn. In David, in Brief, a filmmaker comes across the Renaissance’s most iconic family jewels silkscreened onto a pair of boxer briefs and puts them to good use. In Better Known As Peaches Christ, the drag icon offers an intimate glimpse into her process of transformation and her path to brazen cult hero. In Queer Ghost Hunters, Pt 1, the team is on the hunt for lesbian nun ghosts! A night drinking with her friends turns into an eye-opening Encuentro when young Claudia encounters the captivating foreigner Isabel.

Encuentro is a recipient of a Frameline Completion Fund grant.

— KEVIN SCHAUB

Short films showing in this program:

Better Known As Peaches Christ

4 mins

Drag icon Peaches Christ offers a rare, intimate glimpse into her process of transformation, and describes the path from stifled teen to brazen cult hero.

Bootwmn

11 mins

Deana McGuffin is a third-generation New Mexico bootmaker, hand-crafting wearable pieces of art. When she is approached by a Canadian artist and a San Francisco tattoo artist to create a gay-themed cowboy boot, a story unravels of a unique collaboration that takes them to the heart of cowboy country in Northern Texas. Bootwmn is a heart-warming, intimate and endearing portrait of the queering of a traditional art form.

Born to Love You

4 mins

In the music video for L|M|T’s Born to Love You, directors antone + bambi explore themes of conflict, connection, and memory through modern dance choreographed by Shaunna Vella. When opposites attract, the results can be explosive.

Cruising Elsewhere

13 mins

Whatever happened to Wohler Beach? Oral histories and spectral pornography resurrect memories of a once legendary Russian River gay beach in this sexy short.

David, In Brief

16 mins

When a filmmaker comes across the Renaissance’s most iconic family jewels silkscreened onto a pair of boxer briefs, he decides to explore the story of Michelangelo’s David and what this chiseled figure has to offer those of us struggling with our own modern-day Goliaths.

Encuentro

17 mins

MoC hottie Claudia is in for a spark-filled evening when she encounters the captivating foreigner Isabel, who challenges her perceptions of Latinos and of herself in this beautiful short that explores connection and identity.

Guitar Idol

4 mins

This truly queer experimental short invites you to play Guitar Hero, in a vintage and sexier way. #rockoutwithyourcockout

Queer Ghost Hunters, Pt. 1

10 mins

In this first episode of director Stu Maddox’s Queer Ghost Hunters, join the team on the hunt for lesbian nun ghosts!

A Rite of Passage

3 mins

The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence invite you to a special gathering at the beach.

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