Reel Affirmations: The Nation's LGBT Film Festival 2008

"Want" sexualizes a queer "femmegimp," (the director herself, Loree Erickson) as a response to a world that often treats those with disabilities as second-class citizens who are certainly not sexual beings. Through graphic, but never gratuitous sex, Erickson shows herself as a fully-realized woman who not only engages in sex, but enjoys it.

Featuring a complex, all-encompassing look at two young gay men, both with physical disabilities, living in Romania, Chip & Ovi presents a tender, plaintive look into the lives of an orphaned couple dealing with both the struggles of their relationship and of poverty. Each with his own compelling circumstance and interests, Chip & Ovi offers the audience the spectacular realization of just what unspectacular minutiae Chip and Ovi must bravely face, without complaint, on a daily basis.

Want
Loree Erickson, CANADA, 2006, 9 min.

Chip & Ovi
Panagiotis Evangelidis, GREECE, 2007, 45 mins. In Romanian with English subtitles.