Sex and the Silver Gays
A group of older gay men get together every month and have sex parties.
Also Directed by Todd Verow
Stan, a cross-dresser, inherits a house haunted by his parents.
Three Parisian women discover that their lives are delicately interconnected to a mysterious fourth woman, who remains tantalizingly out of reach.
"Bulldog in the Whitehouse" takes political satire to obscene new heights: portraying the Bush administration as a cabal of lustful and traitorous gay men who are too busy having sex to notice the empire crumbling down around them. An explosive and darkly comic adaptation of Choderlos de Laclos' novel Dangerous Liaisons, the film's web of sex and deceit centers on Bulldog, a hustler who seduces his way into the Washington press corps to gain access to the halls of the political elite. At the bidding of his puppet master, a corpulent and power mad Karl Rove, Bulldog engages in manipulative trysts with Whitehouse hotties like the demure press secretary, the religious leader and the confused, imbecilic good ol' boy president himself.
What do construction workers do in their well-earned breaks? How might Angelina Jolie's and Brad Pitt's relationship have ended? And what really happened between Marilyn Monroe and Joan Crawford during the summer of 1959? The answers to these and many other interesting questions are provided by twelve queer New York filmmakers. Their films also scrutinize such topics as the difference between the way men and women dream, and how erotic tying a necktie or having a manicure can be.
Filmmaker Chase Hook committed suicide on December 31st, 1979. His conservative family destroyed all of his films. Recently Super 8 home movies of his last summer on Fire Island were found. Also recovered was the tape from his answering machine.
Musical theater legend Jacob Sterling is looking for a for another big break that will get one of his shows on Broadway finally.
Short film shot by Todd Verow and later edited into Frisk.
Three young artists; a trans opera singer/dj, a middle eastern American performance artist and a gay film maker, share a tiny studio apartment while they look for love and fame in NYC. They scrimp and save and scam and steal their way from month to month somehow they survive but in the new world shared economy they are just one click away from losing everything.
An actress on location in Berlin, Germany begins to blur her own life with the character she plays.
V, an older trans woman, is desperately trying to hold on to her rent stabilized apartment in New York City.
Also Directed by Charles Lum
SHOW HARD: short films by Charles Lum & Todd Verow Award winning short documentary and narrative films about gay sex and cruising. including: TOM'S GIFT BEEN TOO LONG AT THE FAIR SECRET SANTA SEX PARTY! BLOW JOB 2017 DAVY & GOLIATH I HAVE MIKE PENCE'S DICK IN A PICKLE JAR. WANT TO SEE IT? A NIGHT AT THE HOIST Charles Lum, aka clublum, received his MFA in Photography from the School of The Art Institute of Chicago after 25 years scouting & managing film locations. His short videos have screened internationally in museum, art and film venues. Todd Verow attended the Rhode Island School of Design and the AFI Conservatory. He made his feature film debut with "FRISK" in 1996. (Sundance, Berlin & Toronto.) At Bangor Films, Todd has directed over 25 features and numerous shorts, establishing himself as the most prolific auteur emeritus of the New Queer Cinema. Charles & Todd have also co-directed the feature documentaries “AGE OF CONSENT” and “SEX & The Silver Gays.”
A tribute to Charles Lum’s life told through his work as a film maker. Featuring Super-8 films Charlie shot as a teenager in the 1970s up to the last film he made about his battle with AIDS related lymphoma. Charlie AKA Clublum was a much-loved and valued member of our queer and film community, whose films defied the taboos and stigmas of sex, sex in public places and sex with HIV. His films embody a quirky earnestness and a wacky and wicked sense of humor and always the utter delight and pleasure of another body.
A reimagining of the Warhol classic.
The Fair theater in Jackson Heights, Queens is one of the oldest continually running gay establishments in New York City. A loyal patron of the Fair tells the history of this gay porno theater and how it has managed to stay open while all the other gay porno theaters in New York City shut down. The narrator recalls the sexual encounters he had there over the last 35 years.
An afternoon visit to a small city Sex Shoppe yields excitement, surprise and comic relief.
While cruising for sex, a gay man has a once-in-a-lifetime chance to right some recent political wrongs and make America great again.
Based on filmmaker Charles Lum's own experience of going to a gay beach as a young man and almost having sex for the first time.
A group of older gay men get together every month for companionship, camaraderie, and sex.
Voice-over narration describes Tom's Gift, a sex shop in rural America closed by municipal ordinance.
A documentary about gay male cruising and public sex and how it has changed over the years.
