Week of Jan 5
Happy New Year, Queer film lovers! We ring in the new year with a week of amazing Queer films with Queer women filmmakers in person. Next weekend, Braindead hosts the first two chapters of Louise Weard's low-fi trans epic Castration Movie --clocking in at nearly ten hours so far, with more chapters to come!
Castration Movie Anthology i. Traps & ii. The Best of Both Worlds
Jan 10 & 11, 5:30 PM @ Brain Dead Studios
Director/star Louise Weard & co-star Vera Drew in person
Louise Weard's Hi-8 trans epic continues, with another five hour chapter that brings us to a trans-separatist cult in New York City. Join Weard with co-star Vera Drew for this special two-night event to celebrate the LA premiere of part two -- and you should catch up now, since part three is coming in 2026!
Tickets from Brain Dead Studios
Also next weekend, The Academy Museum and LA Film Forum team up to host avant-garde Queer filmmaker Su Friedrich, who has been making films for nearly fifty years, and whose work has won top prizes at Outfest and is in collection at MoMA and others.
Girls on Film: Two by Su Friedrich
Sat, Jan 10, 3:00 pm @ Academy Museum
Filmmaker Su Friedrich in person
Two short films from avant garde queer filmmaker Su Friedrich: Sink or Swim (1990) and Damned if You Don't (1987).
Su Friedrich's Today + Seeing Red
Sun, Jan 11, 7:30 pm @ 2220 Arts + Archives
Filmmaker Su Friedrich in person
Filmforum welcomes back Su Friedrich after several years for the Los Angeles premieres of two of her digital video works! Seeing Red (2005, 27 min) and Today (2022, 57 min).
Also This Week
Fucktoys
Fri, Jan 9, 7:00 pm @ Marilyn Monroe Theater
Filmmaker/Star Annapurna Sriram in person
Join AP on a bubblegum grindhouse adventure through sunny and romantic Trashtown, USA. In this raucous odyssey, a wanton minx quests hard across a dreamy landscape of smut, filth and psychics, hustling to lift a curse that has been f-cking her sh-t up.
Tickets from Femme Filth Festival
FREE: Come See Me In the Good Light
Sat, Jan 10, 1:00 pm @ Aero Theater
Executive producer Sara Bareilles in person
In an intimate and joyful story of love in the face of loss, celebrated poets Andrea Gibson and Megan Falley find strength—and unexpected hilarity—in what might be their final year together.
Tickets from American Cinematheque
The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo
Jan 9, 10:00 pm & Jan 10, 9:30 pm @ Vidiots Eagle Theater
As an unknown and deadly disease begins to spread, legend has it that it is transmitted between two men, through a simple glance, when they fall in love. While people are accusing her family, Lidia must find out whether this myth is real or not.
Knife+Heart
Fri, Jan 9, 9:00 pm @ Brain Dead Studios
Paris, Summer 1979. Anne produces third-rate gay porn. After her editor and lover Lois leaves her, she tries to win her back by shooting her most ambitious film yet with her trusted, flaming sidekick Archibald. But one of her actors is brutally murdered and Anne gets caught up in a strange investigation that turns her life upside-down.
Tickets from Brain Dead Studios
The Hunger
Sat, Jan 10, 9:55 pm @ Vidiots Eagle Theater
Aren't all vampire movies gay? Maybe today, but The Hunger was something new when it came out, an erotic bi/lesbian vampire thriller (co-starting bi icon David Bowie) was steaming up the screen long before the 90s queer vampire craze.
Goodbye, Dragon Inn
Sun, Jan 11, 5:00 pm @ Culver Theater
Double Feature with Dragon Inn
The international breakout from out Taiwanese "slow cinema" auteur Tsai Ming Liang takes place on the rainy closing night of a once-majestic cinema in Taipei. As an old martial arts movie plays, we follow the staff and patrons (and gay men cruising the bathroom) one last time before the cinema shuts its doors for good.
Tickets from Alula Film Festival
Next Week
Les Rendez-vous d'Anna
Sun, Jan 18, 2:00 pm @ Aero Theater
Chantal Akerman Retrospective
On a trip across Western Europe to promote her newest release, filmmaker Anna encounters several individuals—familiar and otherwise—and attends to their discontents.
Tickets from American Cinematheque
