What does intellectual property law have to do with circumcision? Leave it to the director of Lilies and Zero Patience to unite these and other seemingly disparate topics into another of his fascinating and inventive combinations of musical camp, melodrama, experimental narrative, and documentary. The story brings three "Peters" together: They make love. They make art. They get busted. "Uncut is a densely layered, delirious romp in which ideas are hurled at blistering speeds [and whose] candy-colored pop art explosion will knock you out." (Joel Shepard, San Francisco International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival Catalog).

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Are circuit parties merely hedonistic extravaganzas glamorizing body worship, rampant drug use, and unsafe sex? Or are they gatherings of the tribe, providing an empowering sense of community and essential fund-raising support for AIDS service organizations? These questions are at the heart of the controversy surrounding this annual series of nearly a hundred dances in more than a dozen cities worldwide. By filming the parties and interviewing organizers, attendees, and event beneficiaries, director Jose Torrealba conveys a sense of why these events are so popular. Juxtaposed with these elements are insightful interviews with such figures as Village Voice editor Richard Goldstein and columnist Michelangelo Signorile, whose book Life Outside did much to bring the controversy to a national level.

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East by Shamiran Samano (1998, 9 min.) is a sensual, erotic depiction of Middle Eastern queer identity. Dance With Me by Cassandra Nicolau (Canada, 1997, 9 min.) brings us into a Macedonian dance between a lesbian daughter, her disabled mother, and her loving grandmother. In Meninas by Paula Alves (Brazil, 1997, 17 min.), two girls' feelings for each other are discovered in a small conservative Christian town in Brazil. Tomboy by Donna Carter (1998, 5 min.) documents an African American tomboy's childhood experiences. I/Yo by Adriana Pacheco (1997, 13 min) meditates on Pachecho's childhood growing up in Colombia. Sambal Belacan in San Francisco by Madeleine Lim (1997, 26 min.) takes a poetic look at three Singaporean lesbians' search for "home."

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