TWIST 2018: SATURGAY MORNING CARTOONS

Get your jammies on and pour yourself some Froot Loops for this adult-oriented collection of animated shorts that will entertain and inspire. Guests in Attendance!

Content Warning: Non-Explicit Sexual Situations and Nudity

Films:

BUTTON OUT!
Kathleen Mullen; 2018; Canada; 4 min.

The history of the LGBT movement, as told by activists.

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FLASH FLOOD
Alli MacKay; 2017; Canada; 6 min.

Thoughts on the transgender experience—from those who know it firsthand.

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MANIVALD
Chintis Lundgren; 2017; Estonia/Canada; 13 min.

A fox finds a new family.

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TRIGGER HAPPY
Anne T. Hanson & Wendy Jo Carlton; 2018; USA; 3 min.

A young voter is forced to consider the discriminatory political agenda behind making America GREAT!

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I LIKE GIRLS
Diane Obomsawin; 2016; Canada; 8 min.

The origins of love.

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TAILOR
Calí dos Anjos; 2017; Brazil; 10 min.; in Portuguese with English subtitles

Trans and genderqueer people rise to the challenges they encounter in society.

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WHATEVER HAPPENED TO JACKIE SHANE?
Sonya Reynolds & Lauren Hortie; 2014; Canada; 9 min.

The story of a gender revolutionary in 1960s Toronto nightlife.

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STEPS TO BALANCE 1-5
Molly Garrett; 2017; USA; 3 min.

A “Take On Me” take on bodies and motion.

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EXPIRATION DATE
Shwenn Shunya Chang; 2017; USA; 5 min.

Love seen through a refracted lens.

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THE PHANTASMAGORIA OF OFFENSE: THE MALE VERSION
Jess Irish; 2018; USA; 7 min.

A brief history of the queer art movement.

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OPEN RECESS
Amy Jingyi Xu; 2016; USA/Canada; 3 min.

First love on the playground.

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SPARK
Aharonit Elior; 2017; USA; 6 min.

A spark ignites a new flame and a new relationship.

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REACH THE SKY
Daniel Sterlin-Altman; 2018; USA; 6 min.

Finally, a gay fantasia that we can all “be-weave” in.

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Total running time: 83 min.

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