A beautifully ambiguous study of the nude in light and movement, this short silent film focuses on the dimly lit bodies of two women shot from Child’s distinctly non-male perspective.

A cat's inquisitive look interferes with the pleasurable sensations of a boy while masturbating.

Michael Wallin's Decodings is a profoundly moving, allegorical search for identity from the documents of collective memory, in this case, found footage from the '40s and '50s.

Get out your western wear and time-travel back to 1985, when this unabashed big-screen lesbian romance made its landmark debut. Sure, a few star-crossed lesbian vampires and sad divorcées had been featured in mainstream movies before Desert Hearts, but when Donna Deitch adapted Jane Rule’s novel and put lesbian passion on explicit display, she made lesbian cinema history.

Roger Stigliano’s Fun Down There follows a week in the life of Buddy, a naif who arrives in Manhattan ready to fall in love. Stigliano’s debut film is a distinctive and offbeat first feature, a precursor to the New Queer Cinema movement.

Gently Down the Stream is constructed from fourteen dreams taken from eight years' worth of my journals. The text is scratched directly on to the film so that you hear your own voice as you read. The accompanying images of women, water, animals, and saints were chosen for their indirect but potent correspondence to the text.

Three Los Angeles, California, couples in their mid-twenties spend a weekend wandering the city’s night streets and hanging out in the apartment of their host, a failed filmmaker named Michael. The second feature film from Gregg Araki.

A mesmerizing erotic poem, Pink Narcissus focuses on the daydreams of a beautiful prostitute who, from his ultra-kitsch apartment, conceives a series of interlinked narcissistic fantasies populated by matadors, dancing boys, slaves and leather-clad bikers.

Eight years after Taxi zum Klo, Frank is back, and his life is anything but under control. He is still madly in love with men; he's always short on money; and he has just been tied up and robbed by a hustler. On top of everything, his mother thinks it's high time he kissed his idle ways goodbye and started thinking about holy matrimony...

It was the film that shocked and delighted audiences the world over. It was seized by US Customs, restricted to screenings in private clubs in London and Paris and terrified the Mary Whitehouse establishment. Welcome to the aftermath of Frank Ripploh — school teacher, film director, and insatiable sex addict!

A pre-Madonna primer that raises questions about race, sex, and subcultural style, Voguing: The Message traces the roots of this gay Black and Latino dance form, which appropriates and plays with poses and images from mainstream fashion.