Hex the Patriarchy

Dancer Elena and sign language interpreter Dovydas meet and form a beautiful bond. As they dive into a new relationship, they must navigate how to build their own kind of intimacy.

When an asexual double dutcher’s religious father forces her to get married, she enlists her friends and fiancé to stop the wedding and free her older sister whose soul is trapped on their father’s land.

Spanning over a decade, soulmates Penny and Luke struggle to maintain their queer-platonic significant-other relationship while dealing with societal pressures to find something "normal."

Two withdrawn individuals constantly seeking human connection, role-play their first accidental encounters

Confused about her sexuality, Teresa asks a few strangers on the internet some of her most pressing questions about herself -- to find out that she's not alone in her experiences.

Younger people are having sex less and less often - even though digital contact options are better than ever. But what does the frequency say about pleasure and sexual satisfaction?

When neighbors John and Levi witness supernatural events in their LA apartment building, they realize documenting the paranormal could inject some fame and fortune into their wasted lives.

When Margot, a college sophomore, goes on a date with the older Robert, she finds that IRL Robert doesn’t live up to the Robert she has been flirting with over texts.

While recovering in the hospital, a suicidal teenager forms an intimate bond with the Shanghai student assigned to watch over her, as their nightly exchange of secrets and texts alters the course of both their lives.

Avery, an asexual woman, moves to Salt Lake for med school and meets Wes through a shared interest in parkour. They start dating and grow close, helping each other heal and discover what comes next.

Emma, an asexual graphic designer with generalized anxiety disorder, learns of the stress-reducing properties of sex, and decides to place an ad on Craigslist for a test sexual partner to determine if it will help with her panic attacks.

Through a collage of intimate stories, ‘Desire?’ opens up a dialogue about relationships which do not stand on the edifice of Sex and Sexuality, existing as a minority community within an already persecuted LGBTQIA minority community. The parallel narratives take you through each characters’ world as they navigate through life creating small ruptures within a culture of universal hypersexuality.

Facing a sex obsessed culture, a mountain of stereotypes and misconceptions, and a lack of social or scientific research, asexuals - people who experience no sexual attraction - struggle to claim their identity.

Jana lived in social isolation. Ondřej suffered from depression. After discovering their sexual identity, they accepted themselves. They are like us, they just don't have sex. Two aromantic asexuals. Jana loves romantic stories, likes reading them and in the beginning of her career as a literary translator, romance novels were her daily bread. Ondřej hangs out with his friend Martina, who'd like to marry him. He lives with a gay couple and his cat, and sees it as an appropriate way of being himself.

Sex. Something that is part of human nature. Everyone does it and strives to have their happily ever after… Right? In a society where intimacy and romance are constantly everywhere, someone breaks from the mould after years of self-discovery. They send a letter to their past self full of their experiences and lessons learned, in the form of a short documentary. A-Okay brings attention to the hyper-sexualized and romanticized society we live in and how it’s expectations, stigmas, and stereotypes can be harmful to individuals on the aromantic and asexual spectrums.

The film follows Minho, a young asexual man, as he and a gay couple take their polyamorous relationship to the next level by moving in together.

Two young men, Damien and Tom, are about to have sex before Tom puts an end to the encounter by confessing that he doesn't want to. To comfort him, Damien tells him about his failed first time.

Riley is a young college student, who also happens to be asexual and aromantic. They are tired of being ditched by their friends for their relationships. All they want is someone who understands them. It's after they meet Evelyn that they find what they've been looking for.

Cinthia (she/her) and Robyn (they/them) get real about their two-year relationship to unpack the stereotypes and misconceptions around asexuality and desire.

Image production is fiction-weaving. Together with Sheena Absalud, we spent an entire day in Pride Month in my room documenting ourselves using different cameras: three mobile phones, one action camera, one CCTV camera, and one laptop, while asking each other questions about our asexuality. Recognizing the role of the moving image in constructing prejudice, self-identity, and desires, and therefore the expansion of neoliberalism, "The Function of Fiction" attempts to abandon temptations to define “asexuality” and its place in the context of “LGBTQIA+”, in pursuit of new socialities and possibilities. Music in the film was spawned with plants and machines.