The Panorama section of the
Berlin International Film Festival, which unspools February 10 -20, has long been supportive of gay and lesbian cinema and, informally over the years, has made great efforts to bring together gay and lesbian filmmakers and festival programmers from around the world.
This year, the Panorama will feature an unusal omnibus film, the brainchild of
Kristian Petersen, who asked 15 queer filmmakers in Berlin to contribute a short film about their idea of gay or lesbian love and sexuality.
The twist: gay men were given the task of making a short film about lesbian sexuality and eroticism, and lesbians were asked to explore the sexuality of gay men.
The result is
Fucking Different!, 15 short films, each between 3 and 7 minutes, shot on MiniDV and spanning disparate genres and forms, but all "primarily concerned with the pinpointing, questioning and deconstruction of cliches -- cliches which, in spite of the ostensible proximity of gays and lesbians during the past ten years, appear to persist to a shocking extent in the minds of many in the opposite group."
Fucking Different! is being sold at the Berlinale by
GM Films, which will release the project in Germany following the festival.
Image: from
Blue Box Blues by Michael Brynntrup.
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# posted by Steve Gallagher @ 2/09/2005 10:55:00 AM
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