Movies: Jenni Olson
- 2019
30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing (2019)
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Over 30 filmmakers and friends of Strand Releasing have come together to honor the company’s indelible contribution to independent cinema over the past thirty years. The participating filmmakers have each created a short film for the project, all sho...
- 2017
AWOL (2017)
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A young woman in the Army must make tough decisions when her love for an older woman causes her to question just where she is going. Adapted from Deb Shoval's 2011 short film of the same name....
- 2006
Fabulous! The Story of Queer Cinema (2006)
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A chronological look at films by, for, or about gays and lesbians in the United States, from 1947 to 2005, Kenneth Anger's "Fireworks" to "Brokeback Mountain". Talking heads, anchored by critic and scholar B. Ruby Rich, are interspersed with an advan...
- 1997
Blue Diary (1997)
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Through voiceover and static San Francisco landscapes this experimental narrative short tells the melancholy story of a butch dyke pining over a one night stand with a straight girl....
- 2009
575 Castro St. (2009)
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Images set to a tape recording that slain San Francisco City Supervisor Harvey Milk made in November 1977 to be played in case he was killed....
- 2011
Vito (2011)
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In the aftermath of Stonewall, a newly politicized Vito Russo found his voice as a gay activist and critic of LGBTQ+ representation in the media. He went on to write "The Celluloid Closet", the first book to critique Hollywood's portrayals of gays on...
- 1995
Trailer Camp (1995)
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Film archivist and former director of the San Francisco Lesbian and Gay Film Festival Jenni Olson created this fast-paced and often funny, campy 75-minute film comprised entirely of spliced together movie trailers. Some of the segments have themes su...
- 2009
Official Rejection (2009)
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A documentary following the exploits of a group of filmmakers as they take their independent feature, Ten 'til Noon, along the film festival circuit, and the politics, pitfalls, triumphs and comic tragedies they encounter along the way. Full of inter...
- 2005
The Joy of Life (2005)
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A blending of documentary and experimental narrative strategies, combining stunning 16mm landscape cinematography with a bold, lyrical voice-over to share two San Francisco stories: the history of the Golden Gate Bridge as “suicide landmark,” and the...
- 1996
Jodie: An Icon (1996)
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Jodie is a fast paced, breezy look at the transatlantic phenomenon that has made Hollywood actress Jodie Foster an icon for lesbians who identify with, adore and celebrate the screen personas of her remarkable career....
- 2018
Dykes, Camera, Action! (2018)
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The film examines the ways that women directors have contributed to this genre and emphasizes the role that the media play in representation of sexuality and gender, underscoring the power that film has to shape our perceptions of one another. Visual...
- 2001
By Hook or by Crook (2001)
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Shy is a transgender man who leaves his small town after the death of his father, and heads to the big city to live a life of crime. Along the way, he encounters Valentine, a quirky adoptee, in search of his birth mother. An immediate kinship is spar...
- 2021
No Straight Lines: The Rise of Queer Comics (2021)
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A feature-length documentary film-in-progress chronicling the birth and development of LGBTQ comics through the eyes of several of its pioneers. The film was inspired by the Lambda award-winning book of the same name, and dives deeper into the person...
- 2002
Family Fundamentals (2002)
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With a rare gift for unflinching impartiality, director Arthur Dong delves into the lives and attitudes of fundamentalist families who actively oppose homosexuality, despite having gay offspring themselves....
- 1997
Blow-Up (1997)
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Girl, knife and doll come together in this controversial dramatization of the original early 1990s Tribe 8 queer punk band "Masochist Medley" stage act featuring San Francisco drag king Marya's legendary stage performance as Uncle Rod....
- 2023
Beyond the Aggressives: 25 Years Later (2023)
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Follows the lives of four queer masculine-presenting BIPOC – all assigned female at birth – as they challenge conceptions of gender identity while navigating life’s hardships and triumphs....
- 2015
The Royal Road (2015)
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A fascinating and unlikely reinvention story, The Royal Road simultaneously explores cinematic spiritual channeling, the conquest and colonization of Mexico and the American Southwest, fading historical Californian urban landscapes, and the passions ...
- 2003
Matzo Maidels (2003)
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Brooklyn Bloomberg and friends do some steamy kibbutzing in this fascinating piece of Yiddish-keit, circa 1923. Rare 16mm archival erotica footage is overlaid with a hilarious Jewish porno voiceover - sprinkled with colloquial Yiddishisms....
- 1994
Sometimes (1994)
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A concise poetic summary of butch identity....
- 1991
Levi's 501s (1991)
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A provocative lesbian spoof of the famous early '90s ad campaign: "What do you do in your 501s?"...