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A collection of 3 classic short films with gay themes.
Un Chant D'Amour (1950) 26 mins.
Two prisoners in complete isolation, separated by the thick brick walls, and desperately in need of human contact, devise a most unusual kind of communication. The complete, uncut version of Jean Genet's notorious 1950 fantasy.
Looking For Langston (1988) 45 mins.
A black and white, arrestingly beautiful homage to black gay poet Langston Hughes, with archival footage and photographs intercut with a story. A wake is going on, with mourners gathered around a coffin. Downstairs is an elegant bar where tuxedoed men dance and talk. One of them has a dream in which he comes upon Beauty, who seems to reject him, although when he awakes, Beauty is sleeping beside him. His story and his visits to the jazz and dance club are framed by voices reading from the poetry and essays of Hughes and others. The text is rarely explicit, but the freedom of gay black men in the 1920s in Harlem is suggested and celebrated visually.
Flames of Passion (1989) 18 mins.
A doctor falls in love with a man in a train station after finding a photograph. Kwietniowski's award-winning monochrome melodrama, a witty gay remake of Brief Encounter.
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