OUTFEST proudly presents our signature showcase dedicated to films, videos and multimedia work that defy boundaries, stretch cinematic sensibilities and go where none have gone before. Welcome to a world where creative innovation, turns motel resorts and silver screens into PLATINUM!.

PLATINUM OASIS Ron Athey and Vaginal Davis, Curators Back by popular demand, our mega-multi-media, hyper-intellectual, 18-hour arts'n'culture celebration at the notorious Coral Sands Motel. Click here to see a list of participating artists.

LUBOV AND OTHER NIGHTMARES DIR: ANDREI NEKRASOV, 2001, RUSSIA, 35MM, SUBTITLED, 97 MIN. This kaleidoscopic feature is an intellectually delicious and darkly playful poetic treatise on the anxieties of post-communist, post-post-modern, "post-everything" Russia.

TOM DIR: MIKE HOOLBOOM, 2002, CANADA, VIDEO, 75 MIN. An experimental feature-length documentary made almost entirely of found footage.

PLATINUM SHORTS This wondrously eclectic collection of experimental shorts proves once again the brilliant ability of the queer imagination to turn the silver screen into pure platinum.

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YELLOW BELLY This experimental shorts program showcases the most audacious, funny and pissed off Asian Pacific American filmmakers.