Sexuality
The Basement Girl A film by Midi Onodera, 2000, 12 min., Color Abandoned by her lover, a young woman finds comfort and safety in her basement apartment. Mundane routines, a diet of junk food and the warmth of the...
Bhangra Jig A film by Pratibha Parmar, 4 min. A vibrant short video about how young Asian people in Scotland celebrate desire and self-pride through dance and music....
A Boy Named Sue A film by Julie Wyman, 2000, 56 min., Color Julie Wyman's compelling documentary chronicles the transformation of a transsexual named Theo from a woman to a man over the course of six years. The...
Brincando El Charco A film by Frances Negrón-Muntaner, 1994, 55 min., Color/BW Refreshingly sophisticated in both form and content, BRINCANDO EL CHARCO contemplates the notion of “identity” through the experiences of a Puerto Ric...
Can't You Take a Joke? A film by Viki Dun, 1989, 26 min., BW Can you fall in love and still have a sense of humor? This delightful, stylish comedy, in which boy meets boy and girl meets girl, uses the romantic m...
Closer Directed by Tina Gharavi, 2000, 24 min., Color An experimental documentary which has at its heart a poignant character study of a 17 year-old lesbian living in Newcastle, England, CLOSER innovative...
Cycles A film by Zeinabu irene Davis, 1989, 17 min., BW Rasheeda Allen is waiting for her period, a state of anticipation familiar to all women. Drawing on Caribbean folklore, this exuberant experimental dr...
The Day I Will Never Forget A film by Kim Longinotto, 2002, 92 min., Color THE DAY I WILL NEVER FORGET is a gripping feature documentary by acclaimed filmmaker Kim Longinotto that examines the practice of female genital mutil...
Desire A film by Julie Gustafson and Teenage Girls' Documentary Project, 2005, 85 min., Color Nearly a decade in the making, this refreshingly honest film documents the challenges and desires of a group of young women in New Orleans by letting ...
A Different Image A film by Alile Sharon Larkin, 1982, 52 min., Color A highly-acclaimed film, A DIFFERENT IMAGE is an extraordinary poetic portrait of a beautiful young African American woman attempting to escape becomi...
The Education of Shelby Knox A film by Marion Lipschutz and Rose Rosenblatt, 2005, 74 min., Color Winner of the Sundance Best Cinematography Award and the SXSW Audience Award, WMM is pleased to be finally releasing this fascinating and powerful doc...
Europlex A film by Ursula Biemann and Angela Sanders, 2003, 20 min., Color The fourth in Ursula Biemann's critically acclaimed series of video essays that investigates migration across borders, EUROPLEX, a collaboration with ...
Filming Desire: A film by Marie Mandy, 2000, 60 min., Color “In this bold documentary Marie Mandy asks the question: how do women directors film love, desire, and, especially, sexuality? In rare interviews wit...
The Films of Barbara Hammer Three films by Barbara Hammer, 42 min. Four classic celebrations of the female body and spirit. DYKETACTICS is a celebration of lesbian sensuality and sexuality; DOUBLE STRENGTH is an expe...
Georgie Girl A documentary by Annie Goldson and Peter Wells, 2001, 70 min., Color/BW Meet Georgina Beyer, the latest “it” girl of New Zealand politics. A one-time sex worker of Maori descent turned public official, Georgina stunned th...
Girl Inside A film by Maya Gallus. Produced by Justine Pimlott and Maya Gallus, 2007, 70 min., Color Following 26-year-old Madison during a crucial three years of her transition from male to female, GIRL INSIDE is a beautiful film that tracks her emot...
Girls Like Us A film by Jane C. Wagner and Tina DiFeliciantonio, 1997, 57 min., Color An ethnically diverse group of four working class girls strut, flirt, and testify in this vibrant, affecting portrait of teenage girls' experiences of...
Hollywood Harems A film by Tania Kamal-Eldin, 1999, 24 min., Color "Tania Kamal-Eldin has once again produced a stunning video, a half-hour documentary, this time taking critical aim at Hollywood's abiding fascination...
Jasad & The Queen of Contradictions A film by Amanda Homsi-Ottosson, 2011, 40 min., Color Lebanese poet and writer Joumana Haddad has stirred controversy in the Middle East for having founded "Jasad" (the Body), an erotic quarterly Arabic-l...
Khush A film by Pratibha Parmar, 1991, 24 min., Color KHUSH means ecstatic pleasure in Urdu. For South Asian lesbians and gay men in Britain, North America, and India (where homosexuality is still illegal...
Lust A film by Valie Export, 1986, Color Valie's aproach to lust translates in modern terms to a music video about sex and consumerism. In one satiric scene a bodybuilder, who uses his body ...
Macho A film by Lucinda Broadbent, 2000, 26 min., Color In 1998, Managua, Nicaragua became host to one of the most publicized and controversial cases of sexual abuse to hit modern day Latin America. At the...
My Left Breast A film by Gerry Rogers, 2000, 57 min., Color “Every once in a while someone comes up with a film that sends us a clear signal that it's time to re-evaluate our lives. The film MY LEFT BREAST is n...
Orchids: My Intersex Adventure A film by Phoebe Hart, 2010, 60 min., Color Gen X filmmaker Phoebe Hart always knew she was different growing up – but she didn’t know why. This award-winning documentary traces Phoebe’s voyage ...
Out in South Africa A film by Barbara Hammer, 1995, 51 min., Color In 1994, Barbara Hammer was invited to South Africa to present a retrospective of her 77 films and videos at OUT IN SOUTH AFRICA, the first gay and le...
Performing the Border A film by Ursula Biemann, 1999, 42 min., Color A video essay set in the Mexican-U.S. border town of Ciudad Juarez, where U.S. multinational corporations assemble electronic and digital equipment j...
A Powerful Thang A film by Zeinabu irene Davis, 1991, 57 min., Color This innovative drama, set in Ohio, traces an African American couple's search for intimacy and friendship. The spirited, African-identified Yasmine A...
Rate It X Directed by Lucy Winer and Paula De Koenigsberg, 1986, 93 min., Color What do men really think of women? This provocative, highly acclaimed documentary provides an unflinching look at sexism in America. A series of distu...
Remote Sensing A film by Ursula Biemann, 2001, 53 min., Color In Biemann’s latest video, she traces the routes and reasons of women who travel across the globe for work in the sex industry. By using the latest i...
Sabor a Mi A film by Claudia Morgado Escanilla, 1997, 20 min., Color Claudia Morgado Escanilla's SABOR A MI is an erotic short drama about sensual yearnings, the guilty pleasures of watching, and the secret complicity o...
Scarlet Road A film by Catherine Scott, Produced by Pat Fiske, 2011, 70 min., Color Impassioned about freedom of sexual expression, Australian sex worker Rachel Wotton specializes in a long overlooked clientele— people with disabiliti...
Seventeen Rooms A film by Caroline Sheldon, 1985, 9 min. Britain’s Channel 4 refused to broadcast this piece because of its subtitle: WHAT DO LESBIANS DO IN BED? The tape looks into seventeen bedrooms to ch...
Sexy Inc. A film by Sophie Bissonnette, 2007, 36 min., Color Are children being pushed prematurely into adulthood? SEXY INC. analyzes a worrying phenomenon: hypersexualization of our environment and its noxious ...
Sir: Just a Normal Guy A film by Melanie La Rosa, 2001, 57 min., Color Screened to acclaim at Gay & Lesbian Film Festivals worldwide and LBGT events across the nation, this candid and courageous portrait of more than 15-m...
Summer of the Serpent A film by Kimi Takesue, 2004, 27 min., Color This beautiful short drama exquisitely explores the unlikely bond that develops between two people from different worlds. Eight-year old Juliette sits...
Ten Cents a Dance (Parallax) A film by Midi Onodera, 1986, 30 min., Color Onodera's three-part reflection on contemporary sexuality and communication uses a split screen device with a new twist. In the first segment, two wom...
Through the Skin A film by Elliot Montague, 2002, 18 min., Color/BW In this highly personal experimental autobiography, emerging filmmaker Elliot Montague presents a daring meditation on the experience and trauma of gr...
Tomboys! A film by Julie Akeret and Christian McEwen, 2004, 28 min., Color Are tomboys tamed once they grow up? This lively and inspiring documentary explodes that archaic myth with the stories of proud tomboys of all ages: A...
Wavelengths A film by Pratibha Parmar, 1997, 15 min., Color WAVELENGTHS explores the time honored quest for love and human intimacy in the polished world of computers and the Internet. Set in gay bars, dreams,...
We Want Roses Too (Vogliamo Anche Le Rose) A film by Alina Marazzi, 2007, 84 min., Color This stunning visual masterpiece is an exuberant testament to the resolve of women of the ’60s and ’70s sexual revolution and feminist movement in Ita...
Who's Afraid of Kathy Acker? A film by Barbara Caspar, 2008, 84 min., Color A multi-layered work featuring animation, archival footage and interviews with the likes of William Burroughs, Carolee Schneemann and Richard Hell,
Wired for Sex, Lies and Power Trips A film by Lynn Glazier, 2009, 45 min., Color An inside look at the culture of sexual harassment and bullying widespread among many teens today, this unique and compelling program examines the pri...
Writing Desire A film by Ursula Biemann, 2000, 23 min., Color "Ursula Biemann’s WRITING DESIRE is a video essay on the new dream screen of the Internet and how it impacts on the global circulation of women’s bodi...
Your Name in Cellulite A film by Gail Noonan, 1995, 6 min., Color A wickedly funny satire about the disparity between a woman's natural beauty and the ideal promoted by the mega-billion dollar advertising industry, t...
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