Don Bapst

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Virus Queen 2023

An experimental essay film reflecting on love, temporality, memory, absence, and living with HIV.
Don Bapst

Don Bapst

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Modeled 2011

A close-up look at the work and technique of photographer G. Elliott Simpson, whose haunting portraits of men covered in black paint are known for their strikingly disturbing beauty. Shot in a mixture of high definition video, 16 mm and Super 8, the work looks beyond the gloss of the artist's stylized photography to explore the relationship that homophobia plays in shaping body image as well as the role of sex and art in transcending violence.
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Chris 2010 (1)

In this essay on desire, the narrator recounts his first romp with a trans guy. An erotic, bilingual love letter to a very special boy.
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Doppelgänger 2023

At an underground club in the 1980s, a young man flirts with a mysterious older guy as the threat of a new "gay cancer" lurks on the sidelines. Four decades later, during the latest pandemic, the same man returns to the renovated nightclub where he meets someone as young as he was on that magical night long ago, stirring long dormant desires and fears.