Encore! Our ImageOut Short Film series are having a second week of availability - you now have until 27 October to order this program
Our 2024 Shorts Programs are made possible through the generosity of long-time ImageOut supporters David D. Emert and Jon P. Templin.
Film resides at the intersection of identity and politics. A filmmaker sharing a story with the community is political. The Queering Democracy: Film, Identity and Politics shorts program carves out spaces for us to exist and to be represented authentically. These stories remind us that whatever happens in November, art will continue to help us make sense of it all—for better or worse. Don’t miss this poignant and timely line-up!
The films highlighted in this series are intended as a companion to the ImageOut Art exhibit showing at Rochester Contemporary Art Center (137 East Avenue) from October 4 – November 16 (Opening: Friday, October 4: 6pm – 9pm).
Two young men cross paths on the back roads of the American Southwest and despite their different backgrounds, find common ground along the Border.
Emerald City is an lgbtqia+ story of two young men: one who has aged out of foster care where he was placed after his parents were deported and the other on his way to join the border patrol. Each isolated in their own way, both seek a sense of community, of belonging, and meet on the back roads of the American Southwest, where they develop a tentative friendship that gradually becomes more.
- Year2024
- Runtime22 minutes
- LanguageEnglish
- CountryUnited States
- DirectorJosef Steiff
- ScreenwriterDavid Bobrow
- ProducerJosef Steiff, David Bobrow
- FilmmakerMatthew Hayward
- CastHavon Baraka, Alan Vazquez, Arasha Lalani, Rob Riordan
- EditorMelissa Lawrenz
Encore! Our ImageOut Short Film series are having a second week of availability - you now have until 27 October to order this program
Our 2024 Shorts Programs are made possible through the generosity of long-time ImageOut supporters David D. Emert and Jon P. Templin.
Film resides at the intersection of identity and politics. A filmmaker sharing a story with the community is political. The Queering Democracy: Film, Identity and Politics shorts program carves out spaces for us to exist and to be represented authentically. These stories remind us that whatever happens in November, art will continue to help us make sense of it all—for better or worse. Don’t miss this poignant and timely line-up!
The films highlighted in this series are intended as a companion to the ImageOut Art exhibit showing at Rochester Contemporary Art Center (137 East Avenue) from October 4 – November 16 (Opening: Friday, October 4: 6pm – 9pm).
Two young men cross paths on the back roads of the American Southwest and despite their different backgrounds, find common ground along the Border.
Emerald City is an lgbtqia+ story of two young men: one who has aged out of foster care where he was placed after his parents were deported and the other on his way to join the border patrol. Each isolated in their own way, both seek a sense of community, of belonging, and meet on the back roads of the American Southwest, where they develop a tentative friendship that gradually becomes more.
- Year2024
- Runtime22 minutes
- LanguageEnglish
- CountryUnited States
- DirectorJosef Steiff
- ScreenwriterDavid Bobrow
- ProducerJosef Steiff, David Bobrow
- FilmmakerMatthew Hayward
- CastHavon Baraka, Alan Vazquez, Arasha Lalani, Rob Riordan
- EditorMelissa Lawrenz