James Kleinmann

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James Kleinmann

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Memorabilia
1h 10m
Movie 2024

Memorabilia

As an older gay man lies dying in a hospital room, he tries to remember all of his past lovers. Over the years, he had filmed many of his lovers as a way to capture them, but now the films are disintegrating – fading away just like his memories. Shot entirely on super8 film, this touching new film incorporates archival footage shot by Charles Lum in the 1970s and '80s (including footage from his time as an exchange student in Norway), archival footage shot by Todd Verow in the 1980s and '90s, as well as new footage by Verow. With a script based on Lum's stories and cruising diaries, and stories written by Verow, Memorabilia is a beautiful visual homage to love, as well as a testament to its creators' close friendship and mutual understanding in how to tell a story. Charles Lum never saw this film come to life, but he would no doubt have been proud of the result.

You Can't Stay Here
1h 44m
Movie 2023

You Can't Stay Here

Rick, a photographer, witnesses the brutal murder of a gay man in Central Park. With the cops taking little interest in the crime, a dangerous and sexy game of cat and mouse ensues between Rick and the killer, Adam.

Last Year at Belvedere
0h 4m
Movie 2023

Last Year at Belvedere

Two gay men try to remember if they had met before as they spend the summer on Fire Island. A homage to/parody of the classic film Last Year at Marienbad set in the present day at the notorious gay guest house the Belvedere.

Charles Lum: This Is Where I Get Off
1h 13m
Movie 2022

Charles Lum: This Is Where I Get Off

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.

F***ed in the Head
1h 30m
Movie 2022

F***ed in the Head

Scott is still sleeping with his ex-boyfriend and floundering through life when his mother calls to tell him his older sister Maggie is in the hospital with a brain tumor. Scott rushes to be by her side. As she lies unconscious he remembers the times their lives intersected. She was a party girl, a popular girl, she got around. Scott imagines what Maggie would say but ultimately realizes that you can never truly know anyone and decides to take a chance on love and life.

My Almost First Time
0h 3m
Movie 2022

My Almost First Time

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.

Goodbye Seventies
1h 32m
Movie 2020

Goodbye Seventies

In the 1970s, the golden age of gay pornography in New York City, a promising chorus boy is injured and told he will never dance again. Distraught and unimpressed with the "art" films playing seedy Times Square theaters, he gets his friends and lovers together and they start making their own hardcore movies. Against all odds the films are wildly successful until drugs, AIDS and cheap video technology bring it all crashing down

LDR
0h 13m
Movie 2018

LDR

Two gay men navigate a burgeoning long distance relationship with the help of video calls.

This Side of Heaven
1h 31m
Movie 2016

This Side of Heaven

V, an older trans woman, is desperately trying to hold on to her rent stabilized apartment in New York City.

The End of Cruising
1h 17m
Movie 2013

The End of Cruising

A documentary about gay male cruising and public sex and how it has changed over the years.

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