Emerald ▣

Jul 19, 2025

0h 7m

★ 0.0

"We're gonna take a break for a little Gay Capitalism. We'll be right back."

Overview

A continuously running installation of two video monitors on pedestals, overlooked by a green Kit-Cat clock. A small and large monitor display two different video collages of footage from the Emerald Square Mall and the strike during its 1989 construction with interferences of Channel J's Emerald City TV (1976-1979): the self-proclaimed "world’s first television show for gay men and women", Huge Video's Heat in the Night (1989), Genet's Un Chant D'Amour (1950), cigarette commercials, The Wizard of Oz, and a performance of a mylar-clad figure wrapping up the television in videotape.

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Cast

Frank O'Dowd

Paul D. Fow

Brad Mitchell

Rex Chandler

Dennis James

Bravo

Lucien Sénémaud

On the eve of the admissions cycle for New York City kindergartens, Alex and Greg Wheeler have high hopes for four-year-old Jake. The director of Jake's preschool encourages them to accentuate Jake's gender expansive behavior to help him stand out. As Alex and Greg navigate their roles as parents, a rift grows between them, one that forces them to confront their own concerns about what's best for Jake, and each other.

6.2

The Catcher Was a Spy

Jun 22, 2018

Former major league baseball player Moe Berg lives a double life working for the Office of Strategic Services in World War II Europe.

3.7

The Bridge

Feb 16, 2006

A gay Australian man reflects on the immigration problems of his young Russian boyfriend.

4.1

Shakespeare's Sonnets

Jan 1, 2005

A Harvard dandy circa 1946 lures his best friend away from the privileges of conformity.

3.9

Bumping Heads

Aug 25, 2002

Craig is an older, average-looking man who isn't handling aging well. Gary is a hot, blond young stud at the center of attention. They literally bump heads one night, and become best friends. But Craig wants to be boyfriends, while Gary has other issues. They work things out (somewhat) during a night in the emergency room.

0.0

Las colocadas

Jan 1, 1996

The hasty arrival home of a porn-vedette, Norma Lila, after a failed tour, will unleash a personal drama that will drag her to drugs, esotericism and alcohol. Finally, following the advice of her friends Turca and Chunga, she will discover that her drama is not personal, but universal.

6.5

Natchan's Little Secret

Jan 13, 2023

When three drag queens, Virgin, Moririn, and Zubuko, learn that their mentor and former drag queen, Natchan, has died suddenly, they take it upon themselves to keep the secret of her sexuality from her bereaved family.

1.0

The Jump Off

Jun 23, 2017

Nigel and Malik have been in a secret romantic relationship for several weeks. Nigel seems content with their unofficial status, but as times goes on, he longs for more. One evening, Nigel decides to take matters into his own hands before thinking of the consequences.

4.8

Kelet

Jan 29, 2020

Kelet is a twentysomething black trans woman, whose greatest dream is to be on the cover of Vogue magazine. For the Finnish-born and Manchester-raised Kelet, such models as Naomi Campbell and Iman served as role models giving her strength – and during the darkest times, kept her alive. After coming out, then 19-year-old Kelet was cut off from her family and she moved back to Finland on her own.

6.5

The Library

Aug 29, 2013

Jim falls in love with Ann who works at a library at first sight. The only obstacle for his love is the library's rule - "Keep Quiet." So he writes down his feeling for her in the books he borrows. Unfortunately, Ann never realizes what he does until one day she accidentally sees his messages but Jim doesn't show up at the library anymore with unknown reasons. How will this love end - in laughter or tears?

3.4

Candy Boy

May 23, 2007

Children are mysteriously falling ill at an orphanage. Candy Boy, the most valiant of the orphans, investigates, but the arrival of a new boarder complicates his inquiries.

7.8

Dance of the Forty One

Nov 19, 2020

Mexico City, November 1901. The police raid a private home where a secret party is being held. Among those attending is the son-in-law of President Porfirio Díaz.

0.0

Testosterone: Volume Four

Dec 17, 2019

Volume Four of this sexy collection of the hottest gay short films around. This collection takes us from a blossoming love in a one-bedroom apartment in Tel Aviv, to the paranoid jealousy that comes with your first relationship, to a visually poetic work of ethereal movement and dance. A comedy about the fantasies of a hunky repairman and a thriller about a one-night stand where nothing is as it seems. The 5 shorts include: Faces (2019); Fish Tank (2018); Rubber Dolphin [דולפין מגומי] (2018); The Handyman (2019); Writhing (2018).

7.0

Wambo

May 13, 2001

A feature film about the life and death of the famous Bavarian actor Walter Sedlmayr, who was murdered in 1990 and who tried all his life to hide his homosexual tendencies from the public. The life story is told from the perspective of his professional environment and - sometimes in a documentary style - his fellow actors report on him. His sexual preferences in the BDSM area are also discussed.

7.2

Just a Question of Love

Jan 26, 2000

After his gay cousin dies from hepatitis, young Laurent, who lives with his best friend Carole, falls in love with Cedric, a plant scientist. He's afraid to inform his conservative parents that he is gay.

5.3

The Lady Banker

Aug 27, 1980

Ambitious Emma Eckhert successfully makes her way into a world previously reserved for men: that of high finance. She quickly becomes popular with small savers, but leads a scandalous life that will cost her.

5.0

I ragazzi di Torino sognano Tokyo e vanno a Berlino

Dec 18, 1985

Vincenzo and Luciano, after having witnessed the successful performance of a Japanese ensemble in Rome, return to Turin with the firm intention of putting on a concert, baptizing it "Electronic Granita" and producing themselves as dancers. It’s the story of two friends, Vincenzo and Luciano, who want to set up a show centred around Japanese allures. But Cristina's aggressive love threatens to divide them. Luckily, they run away together to Berlin, escaping the strength of femininity and re-establishing, at least ideologically, a virile and homosexual domination.

4.0

Spooners

Jan 1, 2013

After convincing his husband to retire their old lumpy futon, Nelson is forced to come out in a spectacular way while shopping for a new bed at Drowzy's Mattress World.

6.8

La Cage aux Folles

Oct 20, 1978

Two gay men living in St. Tropez have their lives turned upside down when the son of one of the men announces he is getting married. They try to conceal their lifestyle and their ownership of the drag club downstairs when the fiancée and her parents come for dinner.

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