4 minutes of queer rage that'll wreck your afternoon in the best way.
Kalin's short video works function both as visual poems and as alternative music videos. With their astute conjunctions of image, music and text, these tapes respond to issues of sexuality and human interaction in the 1990s, more than a decade into the AIDS crisis.
Editing
Chaotic found-footage collisions that slap harder than they should.
Direction
Kalin weaponizes camp against its own history. Cruel and necessary.
Director
Tom Kalin
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of the New Queer Cinema wave alongside Todd Haynes and Gregg Araki, Kalin's work emerged when AIDS deaths were peaking and mainstream media offered only silence or pity.
Kalin's feature Swoon (1992) would become the definitive queer take on the Leopold and Loeb case, but these shorts established his signature: history as haunted house.
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