Partial inspiration for Zippy the Pinhead and eulogized by the NY Times as “a national treasure,” George Kuchar, with his twin brother, Mike, practically invented the campy, no-budget, anti-professional, tasteless, gender-bending underground style later embraced by John Waters and others. He made over 500 films in his career. Tonight we feature two of his best: The Devil’s Cleavage is a farcical send-up of Douglas Sirk-style melodramas, made “as if Sam Fuller and Sternberg had collaborated in shooting a script by Tennessee Williams and Russ Meyer” (Chuck Kleinhans, Jump Cut).

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Pino is a mechanic and an off-road racing champion, who becomes a woman named Beatrice. As a transgender person, she meets Marianna, a nurse from Romania who's taking care of her old mother. A romance begins between Beatrice and Marianna—they fall in love. With both of them dressed as brides, they manage to get married in Rome while fighting established societal norms and prejudices. Off Road is an Italian love story, traveling an un-surfaced road to become an unconventional family in a conventional country.

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Davide and Loris are brothers and live in a very small village in the north of Italy. While Davide is eighteen years old and gay, Loris is almost thirty and doesn’t know anything about his brother’s sexuality. Loris and Davide go to Barcelona to watch the match of “Inter”. In Spain, Davide falls in love with Andy, an Ecology Activist from Chile. Andy invites Davide to go with him to Santiago and the boy follows him. Far from the provincialism of his city, things don’t go as Davide imagined.

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