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1. Harold And Hiroshi
   Edward Askinazi [1989, USA, 16mm, 38 minutes, English] @PQ
   Set at a New England university on the eve of the Pearl Harbor bombing, which brought the United States into World War II. Harold is a Jewish boy from New York. Hiroshi is his Japanese exchange student roommate. Together, they share their cultures and develop subtle erotic interest... until December 7, 1941 hits, and everything changes.
2. Hide and Seek [Makhboim]
   Dan Wolman [1980, Israel, 16 & 35 mm & video, 83 minutes, color, Hebrew w/English subtitles]
   Set in British Mandate Palestine (1948), "Hide and Seek" portrays the relationship between Uri, a twelve-year-old boy, and Balaban, his teacher, while Uri's parents are away and involved in underground activities against the British occupation. There is a growing suspicion of an informer among the Jews, and when Uri watches Balaban meeting and exchanging letters with an Arab, he reports Balaban as a spy. Only later does he discover that Balaban is not an agent of the British but the homosexual lover of the Arab. "Hide and Seek" thus becomes a remarkable study of the inability of a siege state to tolerate difference.
3. A Holocaust Family Album
   Terri Esther [1988, USA, video, 28 minutes, color, English]
   A video which tells the stories of five Bay area lesbian daughters of Holocaust survivors.
   Source: Daughters Productions, Box 411174, San Francisco, CA 94141-1174.
4. Home
   Nir Ne'Eman [1994, Israel, 16mm, 8 minutes, Hebrew w/English subtitles]
   A 17-year-old struggles to make sense of a relationship with an older man he met on a one night stand.
   Source: Nir Ne'Eman, 48 Nachmany Street, Tel Aviv, Israel. Phone: 972-3-566-1176
5. The Hours and Times
   Christopher Münch [1991, UK, b/w & color, English] @PQ
   The film is based on one fact -- that John Lennon and Brian Epstein took a four-day trip together to Barcelona in 1963 -- and a great deal of research and speculation about Lennon and Epstein's ambiguous relationship and the rumors that attended it. Much has been made of the film's politics -- piting the irreverent, working-class Lennon against the cultured, Jewish Epstein -- but Münch never lets the class struggle interfere with his central theme, the pain of unfilfilled desire.
6. I Was a Jewish Sex Worker
   Phillip B. Roth [1996, USA, video, 75 minutes, color, English]
   "In this frank, autobiographical documentary, Roth attempts to reconcile various seemingly disparate threads in his life: his family and Jewish heritage, his sexuality, his career and his filmmaking. Using family archival footage and excerpts from several of his short films (such as Boys/Life and 25 Year Old Gay Man Loses His Virginity to a Woman, with Annie Sprinkle), he dramatically contextualizes several videotaped conversations with influential (and amusing) female relatives and his distant father. He also proves the sex trade as an alternative to mind-numbing office work and examines his inability to sustain meaningful relationships, including an early romance with filmmaker Rosa Von Praunheim. Articulate and sexy, this uninhibited personal exploration has relevance to all gay men on a quest for self-knowledge."
   Source: Phillip B. Roth, 130 West Houston Street, NYC. Phone: (212)388-9223, Fax: (212)982-2642.
7. I Will Not Think About Death Anymore
   Irene Buncel [1993, Canada, 16mm, 19 minutes, b/w, English] @PQ
   A dark comedy about a Jewish lesbian who takes a ride with a dyke on a bike to a park. She has a series of flash-backs, they make love and the mysterious biker disappears. Filmed in Vancouver.
8. In Living Memory
   Amy Gottlieb [1997, Canada, video, 14 minutes, color, English]
   "Filmmaker Gottlieb explores her loving, yet politically stormy, relationship with her father, an artist and communist who, at the age of 93, has developed dementia."
   Source: Amy Gottlieb, 44 Alberta Street, Toronto, ON M6H 2R6. Phone: (416)658-0594.
9. Inside Out
   Jason Gould [1996, USA, 35mm, 26 minutes, color, English]
   "The wisdom for young authors is write what you know. Jason Gould has done just that in a very funny film about the trials and tribulations of being the child of celebrities--for the Hollywood-impaired, he's the son of Barbra Streisand and Elliot Gould. Gould stars as Aaron, Elliot Gould as his father, Sam Gould as his step-brother Simon, and Alexis Arquette as his best friend Adam. Christins Crawford (Mommie Dearest) does a hilarious turn as herself, leader of a 12-step program called "Survivors of Celebrity Parents."
   Source: Covert Productions, 8700 Wilshire Blvd, Beverly Hills, CA 90211. Phone: (310)659-5147.
10. It's A Mitzvah
    Fran Jacobson [1994, UK, 16mm, 5 minutes, color, English] @PQ
    "One of two Jewish lovers reflects on how she felt when she met her girlfriend."
11. It's That Age
    Hagar Kot [1990, Israel, 16mm, 40 minutes, b/w, Hebrew] @PQ
    "From Tel Aviv, the first Israeli lesbian love story."
12. Jonathan and David
    John Church [1994, USA, video, 11 minutes, color, English] @PQ
    "An award-winning erotic film, beautifully shot in Super 8, reinvents a traditional Biblical parable, turning it into a metaphor for hot safe sex."
13. Juggling Gender, Politics, Sex and Identity
    Tami Gold [1992, USA, video, 27 minutes, color, English] @PQ
    Features Jennifer Miller, juggler and director of Circus Amok. Miller speaks of her life and struggle as a lesbian woman who happens to have a mustache and beard. Includes scenes of circus performances, a gay rights parade, Miller interacting with friends, family, and strangers.
    Source: Women Make Movies, 462 Broadway, 6th Floor, New York, NY 10013. Phone: (212)925-0606; Fax: (212)925-2052.
14. Just Like Sarah Bernhardt
    Helena Goldwater [1992, UK, 7 minutes, English]
    "... uses humour and the complex relationship between performance and celluloid to explore sexuality and Jewish identity. Drawing on her own experience of melodramatic behaviour, originating in an early affinity to the famous French actress, Helena Goldwater affectionately and critically examines being a London-born Jewish lesbian."
15. Kain and Abel
    Michael Brynntrup [1994, Germany, 16mm, 10 minutes, color, German] @PQ
    "Shows how G-d sows the seeds of discord and divides mankind into good and evil."
16. Kitchen
    Chana Pollack [1988, USA, 16mm, 12 minutes, English]
17. Last Winter
    [Israel]
    About the deepening friendship/love between 2 women waiting waiting for their POW husband(s?) to return from the Yom Kippur war.
18. A Letter to Harvey Milk
    Dan Robinson [1995, Canada, video, 56 minutes, color, English]
    Adopted for television [Bravo's "Spoken Art" series] from a fictional short story by Lesléa Newman.
19. A Letter to Harvey Milk: Harry Weinberg's Notebook
    Yariv Kohn [1990, Canada, 16mm & video, 27 minutes, color, English]
    "Harry is an elderly Jewish man who attends a creative writing class where he has a series of revelations and insights. Inspired by his lesbian teacher and moved by his friend who shares a secret about his homosexual lover at a concentration camp, Harry writes about love and loss. Adopted for the screen from a fictional short story by Lesléa Newman." [SF Jewish Film Festival 1991] Produced and directed by Yariv Kohn while a student at York University, Toronto.
20. The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg
    Jerry Aronson [1993, USA, 16mm, 83 minutes, color, English] VHS tape from Amazon.com
21. Life Is Like A Cucumber [Affengeil]
    Rosa von Praunheim [1990, Germany, film, 87 minutes, color] @PQ
    "A survivor of a concentration camp, the 76-year-old Lotti Huber fled to Israel and became a nightclub dancer. In later years she became a TV personality and a flamboyant spokesperson for the gay community. Together they are a bizarre but entertaining twosome, and the film is a warm and witty portrait of a modern-day heroine." [Steve Stewart's "Gay Hollywood" p.117]
22. Love Story
    Susanne Bier [1997, UK, video, 60 minutes, color, English]
    "... an engaging documentary, tells the true story of an unlikely lesbian love affair in wartime Nazi Germany. In October 1942, Lilly Wust was a model Aryan hausfrau. The wife of a low-ranking German official, the twenty-six-year-old mother of four sons had earned a medal for German motherhood, and proudly kept a picture of the Führer on her wall. But then she met spirited twenty-one-year-old Felice Schrader and unexpectedly fell in love. Unbeknownst to Lilly, Felice was Jewish, hiding her identity with false identification papers, and operating with the Jewish underground resistance. Even after Lilly discovered her lover's secret, the couple remained together until Felice was arrested by the Gestapo. Now in her eighties, Lilly recounts their story, supplemented by surviving photos, loveletters, and poems, as well as other firsthand witness accounts and archival footage."
23. Madonna in Me
    Evie Leder [1994, USA, 3/4", 5 minutes, color & b/w, English] @PQ
    "I am watching Madonna as you are watching me watch her," says the filmmaker, whose film aims to challenge simple ways of thinking about sexuality.
    Source: Evie Leder, 199 Riverside Drive, Northampton, MA 01060. Telephone: (413)586-9012.
24. Man of Ashes
    Nouri Bouzid [1994, Tunisia, film?]
    "This exceptional film tells the story of Hachemi and his beloved friend Farfat, both of whom were molested as boys by their boss. Hachemi, due to be married in a few days, worries that he will not be to perform as a husband, but his guilt comes out only in spurts. In contrast, the beguiling Farfat acts out, drinking and constantly getting himself into trouble. While it is never acknowledged that the love of the two friends for each other could be sexual and positive, their bond is definitely homoerotic and homoaffectionate. Hachemi and Farfat do triumph, each in his own way." [Mara Math, San Francisco Bay Times]
25. Manuela's Loves [Le Jupon Rouge]
    Geneviève Lefebre [1987, France, 35 mm, 90 minutes, color, French w/English subtitles] @PQ
    Set in Paris, this film tells the story of three women in a love triangle, one of them tortured by the physical and psychic scars left by the Nazi concentration camp she survived.
26. Margaret and Adele
    Daniel Gundlach, et al [1981, USA, 16mm, b/w, English] @PQ
27. The Marquesa: Portrait of a Dominatrix
    Karen Young [1997, Canada, video, 60 minutes, color, English]
    "a dominatrix who lives and works in Toronto. Part therapist, part psychologist, part shaman, The Marquesa specializes in recreating her clients' fantasies. [Her] candid explanations and reflections on the rules and principles of SM are intercut with scenes depicting her at work."
    Source: V-Tape, 401 Richmond Street West, Suite 452, Toronto, ON, Canada M5V 3A8. Phone: (416)351-1317. Fax: (416)351-1509.
28. Melvin Schmatzman Freudian Dentist
    David Grotell [1996, USA, 16mm, 12 minutes, English]
    "starts with a dentist trying to rationalize his son's sexuality and follows the dad's quirky reasoning to its logical conclusion."
    Source: David Grotell, 315 East 65th Street #10A, New York, NY 10021. Phone: (212)249-8915.
29. Memento Mori
    Jim Hubbard [1994, USA, 16mm/Sco, 20 minutes, color, English] @PQ
    "A self-processed meditation on death, and the personal and cultural rituals that surround it."
30. Miller's Crossing
    Joel Coen [1990, USA, 35mm, 115 minutes, color, English]
    "The control of the gangster-political boss of an eastern city is slipping, as a blowup with his partner and friend pits the two on opposite sides of a violent gang war. In the middle is a Jewish homosexual ("Bernie Birnbaum" played by John Turturro) who serves as the catalyst for the war." VHS tape from Amazon.com
31. Moments [Rega'im]
    Michal Bat Adam [1979, Israel, film, Hebrew] Distributed abroad as "Each Other."
    Revolves around a chance meeting between two young women--an Israeli writer and a French photographer on holiday--in a train from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. A flashback to an earlier meeting between the pair reviews past memories without confirming a presumed lesbian interlude.
32. My Grandma's Lady Cabaret
    Elizabeth Myers [1992, UK, 16mm, 10 minutes, color, English] @PQ
    Written by Lisa Gornick, the film is a moment in a young lesbian's life as she reflects upon her grandmother. The old woman becomes a source of inspiration when she shares a surprising memory. First screened at the London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival in 1993. It is Elizabeth's 1992 diploma graduation film from Bristol University.
33. Nana, George amd Me
    Joe Balass [1995, Canada, video, color]
    Balass juxtaposes footage of his grandmother, Nana, with footage of George Hayim.
34. Naomi's Legacy
    Wendy Levy [1992, USA, 16mm, 26 minutes] @PQ
    "A girl from Brooklyn with big Jewish hair" incorporates found footage with her own work, layering her mother's memories over her own experiences of childhood and discovers the similarities between them.
35. No Questions Asked
    Bob Simon [1993/04/07, USA, video, color, English]
    "Not In My Army" is a look at gays and lesbians in the American military. The segment "No Questions Asked" was taped in Israel and includes interviews with gay Israeli solders. Gay Israeli film-maker Eitan Fuchs is interviewed and a very brief clip from his movie "Time Off" is shown. Video may be ordered by calling 1-800-338-4847.
36. November Moon [Novembermond]
    Alexandra von Grote [1985, West Germany, 35 mm, 106 minutes, color, German] @PQ
    A suspenseful and moving drama set in Nazi-occupied France. A young French woman hides her lover -- a Jewish woman from Germany -- from the SS, and takes a job with a collaborationist newspaper so as not to arouse any suspicion. November Messing (Gabriele Osburg) is put to work in a Nazi brothel but escapes. For the rest of the war, she is hidden by her female lover who takes a job with a collaborationist newspaper.
37. Occupied Territories
    Jennifer Baum [1993, USA, 16mm, 35 minutes, English] @PQ
    About a Jewish woman living in New York, her roommate, and her two gay male friends who are involved in an interracial relationship. With her Jewish point of view at the center, the film offers challenging impressions of power relations within the woman's millieu of diverse friendships. What does it mean to own your own space as a Jew? What does it mean to occupy your own territory?
38. Outcasts
    Leigh B. Grode [1991, The Netherlands, 16mm, 25 minutes, b/w, English] @PQ
    The black triangle and the Holocaust. "Grode opts for a search for the heritage of her persecution, both as a lesbian and as a Jew... [she] spent three years looking to document the plight of lesbians in the Nazi concentration camps... she was able to reconstruct lesbian life before the war and in the camps." Part documentary, part personal herstory. See Kate Bornstein's review "Where We've Been."
39. Outlaw
    Alisa Lebow [1994, USA, video, 27 minutes, color, English] @PQ
    "a clear, articulate extended interview with Leslie Feinberg, the author of 'Stone Butch Blues.' Leslie presented her views from a position of strength and dignity that she had worked hard to achieve and was proud to have reached. She had a lucid train of thought that clearly explained the unique struggles and the many small battles she had to contend with every day. A person with a history that precedes Stonewall, Leslie is a credible spokesperson and a responsible role model for the transgendered community: 'We can only be considered gender bent in a society that is gender rigid.'" [Torby Kristoffersen]
    Source: Women Make Movies, 462 Broadway, 6th Floor, New York, NY 10013. Phone: (212)925-0606; Fax: (212)925-2052.
40. Oy Gay
    Rosalind Haber [1992, UK, video, color, 31 minutes, English] @PQ
    "In all areas the Anglo-Jewish community does not adhere to the requirements of the religion. Suddenly, when it comes to homosexuality, everyone's a fundamentalist. It's the one bit from the Bible that everybody knows," says Rosalind Haber, aware of the fact that she sounds more like a comedienne than a TV documentary director. "Oy Gay" is the first comprehensive documentary to cover Jewish Lesbians and Gays and its scope is enormous. "We look at Jewish Lesbian and Gay groups all over the world," says Rosalind, "In some countries it's easier to be Lesbian or Gay than it is to be Jewish. Here [England], it's a bit of a no-no to be either. But the programme is not a kvetch. It's a humorous look at young people who are out and proud. It's about visibility, reconciliation and positivity." Available from Maya Vision on Pal or NTSC(VHS) video at a rental fee of £30 per screening.
41. Paragraph 175
    Rob Epstein & Jeffrey Friedman [1999, USA, 35mm, color, 60 minutes, German w/English voice over] @PQ
    Documentary about gay survivors of the Holocaust.
42. The Party Favor
    Lisa Udelson [1994, USA, 35mm, color, 21 minutes, English] @PQ
    "What happens when a lesbian couple, Debbie and Susie, attend Debbie's future sister-in-law's bridal shower? It's not what you might expect in this very funny, bright comedy about untraditional people caught up in the preparations for the age-old tradition of marriage."
43. Partyline
    Ohav Flantz [1992, Israel, 16mm, 17 minutes, color, Hebrew]
    Telephone conversations of six friends on a partyline. One, a man in drag, changes costumes through the film.
44. Pink Triangles: A Study of Prejudice against Lesbians and Gay Males
    Warren Blumenfeld [et al] [1981, USA, 16mm & video, 35 minutes, color, English] @PQ
    Examines the history of and contemporary views on homosexual and lesbian repression and persecution. Focuses on Hitler's regime, the McCarthy era and the Moral Majority. Includes interview with Richard Plant and footage of Nazi concentration camp prisoners wearing pink triangles in concentration camps.
45. Please Kill Me; I'm a Faggot Nigger Jew
    Rachel Schreiber [1996, USA, video, 10 minutes, b/w, English]
     At the opening of this tape, the viewer enters the Internet along with the producer, who uses a pseudonym in order to interview people who engage in a highly problematic and taboo practice--Nazi-fetish based sadomasochism.
     The artist uses video images created directly on the computer, and stories from the archive of her own memory to ask such questions as: How does history affect the body? How are cultural memories transmitted? And, when historical events become part of a culture's discourse, how does the meaning of the original event shift? For more information, contact Rachel Schrieber at raschrei@indyunix.iupui.edu
46. Positive (Positiv)
    Rosa Von Praunheim [1990, Germany, 16mm & video, 90 minutes, color, English] @PQ
    Includes segments with Arnie Kantrowitz, Larry Kramer, Larry Mass, Sarah Schulman, and... Ed Koch.
47. Positive Story
    Ran Kotzer [1996, Israel, video, 42 minutes, color, Hebrew w/English subtitles?]
    "As a child Avi used to sit for hours on one of the hills overlooking Tel-Aviv, dreaming of the day he would be free to live his life openly in the big metropolitan city. At the age of 17, Avi began discovering the gay world of Tel-Aviv: secret gardens, night clubs, cafes. At the age of 19, in a routine examination for HIV, Avi tested positive. Avi is rare among Israelis for his willingness to tell his story honestly and openly."
48. Pride and Prejudice
    Dorothy Engleman [1992, USA, video, 29 minutes, color, English] @PQ
    A documentary "which examines homophobic hatred and violence and asserts that lesbians and gays are everywhere, have always been everywhere and touch everyone's lives; and that what is pathological to society is not homosexuality but homophobia." (extract - 1992 American Film & Video Festival & Conference program)
49. Promenade
    [1959, UK?]
    "'A man who has no wife is not a whole human being' says exuberant fledgling gay Maurice Goodman (Trader Faulkner)" [Keith Howes "Broadcasting It" p. 408]