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Bijou (1972), directed by Wakefield Poole, is a landmark of early 1970s gay cinema. Set in New York City, the film follows a construction worker whose discovery of a mysterious invitation leads him into the underground world of the Bijou club. Shot on 16mm, it combines theatrical imagery and experimental filmmaking with a distinctly 1970s queer sensibility.
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A dreamlike, homoerotic short where a young man’s violent fantasy blurs desire, repression, and surreal imagery.
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Jean Genet’s groundbreaking silent short film, Un Chant d’Amour is a poetic and deeply influential work of queer cinema exploring desire, longing, and intimacy within the walls of a prison.
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A rare and compassionate glimpse into pre-Stonewall gay life, following two men whose chance meeting in a New York bathhouse becomes an unexpectedly intimate conversation about loneliness, identity, and connection.