Malic Amalya

Hanky Code: The Movie

M. O'Herlihy, Ricky Lee

An epic anthology feature film event combining 25 shorts from different queer directors worldwide, each telling a story based on a color/fetish of the infamous hanky code.

Song for Rent, After Jack Smith

Malic Amalya

A remake of Jack Smith's 1969 film, Song for Rent.

Gold Moon, Sharp Arrow

Malic Amalya

Katie Powers, Rosco Kickingstone

Against a backdrop of electrocution, dominance, and scientific precision, wasps nest in an abandoned refrigerator, eyelashes flutter, curtains blow in open windows, and queers congregate. Adapting Stanley Milgram's 1963 experiment on obedience to authority, "Gold Moon, Sharp Arrow" explores how queer communities reenact, resist, and respond to assimilation, coercion, and trauma.

Detours and Fences

Malic Amalya

I practice being thirty-two by biking around Oakland and dressing the same as I did at age fourteen.

Roadsides and Waste Grounds

Malic Amalya

A field guide from the Oakland Hills, with Rachel Zingoni.

RUN!

Malic Amalya

Shot at sites of nuclear development, detonation, industry, tourism, and activism, RUN! examines the ways that ideologies of war structure landscapes, community rituals, cinematic technology, entomology, pandemic management, and even notions of LGBTQ liberation.

To Type Out Your Name

Malic Amalya

To clutch. To grasp.

Flyhole

Malic Amalya

Using appropriated text and images, the story of a housefly who transitions into a man in order to cruise a gay bar.

RUN!

Malic Amalya

Shot at sites of nuclear development, detonation, industry, tourism, and activism, "RUN!" examines the ways that ideologies of war structure landscapes, community rituals, cinematic technology, entomology, pandemic management, and even notions of LGBTQ liberation.

Magnetic Resonance

Malic Amalya, Nathan Hill

In psychoanalytic theory, a dream of a fallen tooth represents fears of castration. In Magnetic Resonance, a cicada falls to its death and New Wave musician Marc Almond falls to the feet of Clint Ruin; a tooth stands in for a brain tumor and the naked legs of the filmmakers on a sheet-less mattress stand in for Almond and Ruin’s performance on stage. "Castrated" bodies become conduits of attraction.

I Wake Up With a Flower in My Hand

Malic Amalya

"I Wake Up with a Flower in my Hand" is a 25-year anniversary remix of "Killer Janitors." Using all original footage and adding no special effects, the new cut focuses on how the best friends saw each other and understood themselves within the context of their friendship, high school, home lives, and a world beyond their small-town confinements—felt but not yet touched.