Directed by Elegance Bratton • 2016 • United States
Starring Aaliyah King, Yolonda Ross, Brenda Holder
A teenager explores her transgender identity through voguing and ball culture—but is her mom ready to accept her for who she is?
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100 Boyfriends Mixtape
Directed by Brontez Purnell • 2016 • United States
In Brontez Purnell’s “video mixtape,” unlikely antihero DeShawn—an HIV-positive Black gay man haunted by the ghosts of 100 men—relates his philosophy of the world to an unknown caller on his landline while magically shrink-fitting a new pair of ...
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A Drop of Sun Under the Earth
Directed by Shikeith • 2017 • United States
A compassionate encounter transforms a shy Black boy and the emotional and sexual traumas lodged in his body in this experimental work informed by the writings of Audre Lorde.
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The Labyrinth 1.0
Directed by Tiona Nekkia McClodden • 2017 • United States
Mixing 16 mm surveillance footage, 1970s tearoom porn, and structuralist film footage shot in North Philadelphia, this poetic film essay—inspired by the writing of Black gay poet Brad Johnson—visually explores the concept of the labyrinth...
