Sundance Short: August Sings Carmen

"A homage to thousands of ambitious YouTube users and video bloggers, gifted and less gifted self-promoters on the Internet." It just gets weirder and weirder.

(Tipped by JMG reader Molly)

8: The Mormon Proposition

Here's the trailer to the coming documentary 8: The Mormon Proposition. The film has been submitted to Sundance and other film festivals.

Sundance: Free LGBT Films On iTunes

For the duration of the Sundance Film Festival, you can download two of their LGBT short films for free on iTunes. One of the offerings is Countertransference, which won the Jury Award for Best Dramatic Short at Los Angeles' OutFest, the other is James - which I don't know anything about.

Me And My Rhythm Box

Here's an art film flashback from 1982, sent to me by a friend who shares my love for Liquid Sky, which is just about the best/worst movie ever. This bit is where Paula E. Shepard (the only one in the movie who could really act, even though she never acted again) does her big performance art piece at the East Village new wave club where much of the movie is set.

How can you not love a movie in which microscopic aliens become addicted to the chemical created in the human brain at the moment of orgasm and must kill the coming human in order to harvest said chemical? And you've got to love the sex scene between the male and female leads, who, by the way, are played by the same actress.

By the late 80's my friends and I had every word of Liquid Sky memorized. "Sometimes my brain is a pain in the ass."

People In Order

Brits from ages 1-100 beat a drum and announce their age. Strangely compelling.

Something Is Wrong With Dawn

Staying with the pussy motif, here's the trailer and synopsis for upcoming horror movie Teeth.

High school student Dawn works hard at suppressing her budding sexuality by being the local chastity group's most active participant. Her task is made even more difficult by her bad boy stepbrother Brad's increasingly provocative behavior at home. A stranger to her own body, innocent Dawn discovers she has a toothed vagina when she becomes the object of violence. As she struggles to comprehend her anatomical uniqueness, Dawn experiences both the pitfalls and the power of being a living example of the vagina dentata myth.

Am I wrong in thinking this movie looks hilarious?

Showbears: The Audition

Just one of several hilarious spots for the Seattle Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, which starts October 12th. The spots are written and directed by David Quantic. Also recommended: Drag Queen Workshop.