Part of our Pride Night special event! Watch this program with Baltimore is Burning here, and join in on our virtual Pride Party at 10:15pm on Friday, May 21, streamed live for free on Twitch.
A selection of short films about LGBTQ+ self-love, relationships, and communities. These contemporary shorts span various genres and identities; the program tells stories including searching for love in the French countryside, visiting a dreamlike diner full of doppelgängers, experiencing a majestic cotillion ball, and hearing first-hand accounts of gay history at the site of one of America's greatest tragedies. These films deal with themes of trust, loneliness, belonging, presentation, and self-actualization.
Have an All Access Pass? Unlock your on-demand screening of this film here!
Total Run Time: 87 minutes
This program will be followed by a Q&A with the filmmakers.
Programmed by Festival Programming Associate, Garrett Stralnic.
Content Considerations: Strong language, implied sexual situations, depictions of sexual situations, harassment, implied violence.
A repressed person, living in a city, confronts his internal struggle as it bleeds through into his public persona, creating a collision amongst external social norms, suppressed identity, and the surrealistic worlds of a distressed psyche.
- Year2019
- Runtime10 minutes
- CountryUnited States
- DirectorLazarus Lazarides
- ScreenwriterLazarus Lazarides
- ProducerLazarus Lazarides
- CastWesli Spencer, Maya Jasmin Kurokouchi, Jose Ignacio Gomez, Daniela Tolmazin, Ksenia Tolmazin, Raphael Halloran
- CinematographerFan Chao Meng & Lazarus Lazarides
- EditorNikos Apostolopoulos
- Sound DesignAdriana Norat
- MusicAdriana Norat
Part of our Pride Night special event! Watch this program with Baltimore is Burning here, and join in on our virtual Pride Party at 10:15pm on Friday, May 21, streamed live for free on Twitch.
A selection of short films about LGBTQ+ self-love, relationships, and communities. These contemporary shorts span various genres and identities; the program tells stories including searching for love in the French countryside, visiting a dreamlike diner full of doppelgängers, experiencing a majestic cotillion ball, and hearing first-hand accounts of gay history at the site of one of America's greatest tragedies. These films deal with themes of trust, loneliness, belonging, presentation, and self-actualization.
Have an All Access Pass? Unlock your on-demand screening of this film here!
Total Run Time: 87 minutes
This program will be followed by a Q&A with the filmmakers.
Programmed by Festival Programming Associate, Garrett Stralnic.
Content Considerations: Strong language, implied sexual situations, depictions of sexual situations, harassment, implied violence.
A repressed person, living in a city, confronts his internal struggle as it bleeds through into his public persona, creating a collision amongst external social norms, suppressed identity, and the surrealistic worlds of a distressed psyche.
- Year2019
- Runtime10 minutes
- CountryUnited States
- DirectorLazarus Lazarides
- ScreenwriterLazarus Lazarides
- ProducerLazarus Lazarides
- CastWesli Spencer, Maya Jasmin Kurokouchi, Jose Ignacio Gomez, Daniela Tolmazin, Ksenia Tolmazin, Raphael Halloran
- CinematographerFan Chao Meng & Lazarus Lazarides
- EditorNikos Apostolopoulos
- Sound DesignAdriana Norat
- MusicAdriana Norat