
Sasha Wortzel
2021We Have Always Been on Fire
Sasha Wortzel
Morgan Bassichis
Set among the dunes and clubs of Fire Island, which have witnessed decades of cruising and dancing, the film blends a performance of Morgan Bassichis's song "We Have Always Been on Fire" with 1976 footage by queer nightlife documentarian Nelson Sullivan. We Have Always Been on Fire traces a queer lineage and engages with loss.
We Have Always Been on Fire
I Guess I'm Not Going to Get to Vegas
Sasha Wortzel
I Guess Im Not Going to Get to Vegas is a short portrait of Florence Sterling, who passed away from lung cancer, told through the stories and memories of her lover of over 40 years, Aileen. The piece explores illness, love, and loss through the relationship between two elderly Jewish lesbians who came out before the emergence of a visible gay rights movement.
I Guess I'm Not Going to Get to Vegas
Paint It Again
Sasha Wortzel
Paint it Again explores the home shared by a woman and her late partner for over 40 years. Now the home of only one surviving partner, the space has become museum-like. Meticulously arranged and decorated, the house is full of objects like artifacts that hold memories and hint at a life shared in this space, a life that is now gone.
Paint It Again
Happy Birthday, Marsha!
Sasha Wortzel, Tourmaline
Mya Taylor, Eve Lindley
It's a hot summer day in June, 1969. Marsha throws herself a birthday party and dreams of performing at a club in town, but no one shows up. Sylvia, Marsha’s best friend, distraught from an unsuccessful introduction between her lover and her family, gets so stoned she forgets about the party. Marsha, Sylvia, and friends eventually meet at the Stonewall Inn to celebrate Marsha's birth. When the police arrive to raid the bar, Marsha and Sylvia are among the first to fight back.
Happy Birthday, Marsha!
Fucking Different XXY
Mor Vital, Sasha Wortzel
Kay Garnellen, Jörg Hochapfel
Fucking Different XXY intends finally to dissolve the binarity of classic gender identities. Seven transgender filmmakers from all over the world have made short films about aspects of sexuality that are alien to them.
Fucking Different XXY