Six very different pieces produced between 1965 and ’75, and all worth seeing. In Pat Rocco’s Yes (1968), a chance outdoor meeting between two men, one nude, involves a lot of looking and some rather chaste touching; the result is an erotic tension not found in hardcore porn. Ronald Chase’s Cathedral (1972) is grandly arty in a way that’s oddly appealing: three nude male bodies are superimposed onto one another to suggest the architecture of a light-filled cathedral. In Roger Jacoby’s Kunst Life Parts 1 – 3 (1975), the shaky camera loses sight of the action, whether it’s someone playing the flute or engaging in an S and M scene, while the sound track continues. As for the New York City subway sex in Peter DeRome’s Underground (1972), filmed with similarly fugitive shakiness—lucky for them that they weren’t caught.
Early Queer Shorts
1 hour 29 min