People Like Me

Love Me, If You Wish An examination of sexuality and humiliation.

Porn Rushes A candid behind the scenes look at the shooting of a single segment of a porn video.

Justify My Love Hoolboom takes the music video for Madonna's "Justify My Love" and runs it alongside a transgressive letter to Madonna from her schoolmate, Jason.

Trace Elements Anderson creates a fantasy art world in which a battalion of muscle guys in jockstraps and gas masks produce, install, and appreciate large, abstract works of corroded metal.

On Becoming Teresa Rizzo puts forth radical and subversive ideas that question gender construction and expectation in Western culture.

Men Like Me Men Like Me is a techno documentary exploring the physical and social transformation of Dale Michaels, a transgender man. With stills, text, animation, colorising, morphing images and sound, slow motion and out of sync dialogue, Men Like Me breaks new ground to illustrate the (re)construction of the body as we know it. Men Like Me is not only Dale's story, but also an account of the filmmaker's journey. What does it mean to have a friend who is changing their gender and how does one adapt to such a metamorphic experience?

I Don't Wanna Be a Boy A candid and, at times, harsh look at life as a transgender sex worker in New York's meat market district.

Can't Help Lovin' Dat Ma... This short is a romp through the life and times of jazz musician Billy Tipton, who was discovered at his death to be transgender. Silly and sweet, this video explores in pseudo documentary form the notion that Billy’s masquerade was perhaps the best performance of his career.

Tainted: Christopher Lef... In a 1993 art exhibit at the University of Saskatchewan, Christopher Lefler allegedly outed the Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan, Sylvia Fedoruk. Lefler's show was closed down, his art seized, his scholarship revoked, and he was expelled from the University of Saskatchewan. Mainstream media and the queer community framed this issue as one of outing, when it was also used to attack the funding of the arts. This film attempts to chart some of the reactions to Lefler's controversial and much maligned work.

Jirimpimbira: An African... A brave boy named Temba ventures to find food and water for his drought-striken village. But when he is given a set of magical bones, he uses them to gain riches for himself instead of sharing with his friends.