James Kleinmann
Acting
Biography
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Known For
Goodbye Seventies
In the 1970s, the golden age of gay pornography in New York City, a promising chorus boy is injured and told he will never dance again. Distraught and unimpressed with the "art" films playing seedy Times Square theaters, he gets his friends and lovers together and they start making their own hardcore movies. Against all odds the films are wildly successful until drugs, AIDS and cheap video technology bring it all crashing down
Squirrels
Three young artists; a trans opera singer/dj, a middle eastern American performance artist and a gay film maker, share a tiny studio apartment while they look for love and fame in NYC. They scrimp and save and scam and steal their way from month to month somehow they survive but in the new world shared economy they are just one click away from losing everything.
The End of Cruising
A documentary about gay male cruising and public sex and how it has changed over the years.
LDR
Two gay men navigate a burgeoning long distance relationship with the help of video calls.
Covid Summer
Shot on super8 film using single frame photography, Covid Summer condenses all the anxiety, insanity, and stir-crazy sexual tension of the summer of 2020.
My Almost First Time
Based on filmmaker Charles Lum's own experience of going to a gay beach as a young man and almost having sex for the first time.
This Side of Heaven
V, an older trans woman, is desperately trying to hold on to her rent stabilized apartment in New York City.
Swimming to the End of the World
A world-weary gay man remembers lost lovers as he swims from the Christopher Street Piers in New York City to Provincetown, Massachusetts.
The Gay Agenda 24
In this anthology of shorts, the phrase "Gay Agenda" is reclaimed from the religious right and transformed into a celebration of gay culture. Sit back and enjoy "Country People," "Brothers," "Son of a Dancer," and "Swimming to the End of the World."
Last Year at Belvedere
Two gay men try to remember if they had met before as they spend the summer on Fire Island. A homage to/parody of the classic film Last Year at Marienbad set in the present day at the notorious gay guest house the Belvedere.
Filmography
as Todd
as Narrator
as Richard