Desire Lines

Desire Lines 2024

1

Past and present collide when an Iranian American trans man time-travels through an LGBTQ+ archive on a dizzying and erotic quest to unravel his own sexual desires.

2024

The Year Between

The Year Between 2023

4.10

Inspired by true events, college sophomore Clemence Miller is coming home to the suburbs and a bedroom in her family's basement. After dropping out of school with a newly diagnosed mental illness, she now faces the challenges of bipolar disorder, the responsibilities of adulthood, and her damaged relationships with family and friends. Clemence struggles to figure out what it means to heal without driving everyone around her… well, crazy. As if reckoning with everything and everyone she has taken for granted wasn’t enough, Clemence has to wrestle with the thought that on top of it all, she might also just have a really bad personality.

2023

All Jacked Up and Full of Worms

All Jacked Up and Full of Worms 2022

5.10

A maintenance man for a seedy motel embarks on a path of self-destruction through the alleyways of Chicago after he discovers a hidden stash of powerful hallucinogenic worms.

2022

My Little Renaissance Girl

My Little Renaissance Girl 2024

1

A dark comedy about a woman struggling with body dysmorphic disorder, an unexpected pregnancy and all the Renaissance fanfare that comes with it.

2024

Holy Trinity

Holy Trinity 2019

1

In this eye-popping, spiritually rollicking film, queer femme dominatrix Trinity huffs a magic aerosol can and develops the ability to speak to the dead. Trinity’s submissive partner, Baby, is by her side as she journeys in and out of reality on this wild ride of John Waters–style queer spirituality and alternative sexuality. Absurdity, kink, and camp abound in this film filled with the cream of Chicago’s queer artist community, including the infamous Imp Queen.

2019

The Limits of Vision

The Limits of Vision 2022

1

An experimental animated long short that depicts a woman coming undone by shifting gender norms in South London in 1975. It is a period piece featuring housewife Marcia, whose whimsical notions about dust and dirt take a dark turn when she encounters Mucor, the god of decay. It’s a story about art, metaphysics, obsessive compulsion and second wave feminism. Told through a fascinating character, an ingenious but profoundly conflicted individual, who comes unstuck amid the transformation of gender rules in 1970s suburban London.

2022

Grizzlies

Grizzlies 2019

1

Starting with teenagers at Dairy Queen and ending with boomers at book club, Nancy and her adult daughter Allison must find the courage to fiercely protect each other from their respective bullies.

2019