In the spring of 1988, video artist/activist Gregg Bordowitz tested HIV-positive, quit drinking and doing drugs, and came out to his parents about his homosexuality. This imaginative film, which came to include a questioning of his understanding of the diagnosis and of the relationship between illness and history, is a kaleidoscopic blast of visual stimulation, intellectual irreverence, and emotional confrontation. “The riskiest film about AIDS made to date. Finally someone has the guts to face despair honestly and without a trace of self-pity… angry, mournful, cynical, funny, moving and wise” - Douglas Crimp

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Lulu portrays the sexual odyssey of one woman and, in scenes that are both funny and deeply shocking, gives new meaning to the term “fag hag”—Lulu not only wants to “hang out” with gay boys, but she also winds up as the sandwich in a series of sexual couplings with Banderas look-alikes that include group sex, handcuffs, and shavings. Politically incorrect and wildly sensual, director Bigas Luna (Jamon Jamon, Bilbao) makes countryman Almodóvar look like Ron Howard in what must be this festival’s most daring film.

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Described as a lesbian Slacker, this first feature offers an inside look at lesbian life in the 1990s. There’s Max, who is looking for love, and Kia, who thinks she’s found it in Evy. But to complicate Kia’s life, there’s the seemingly available Ely, who lives with the loose Darla, who in turn believes Ely would like Max. “There’s an innocence about the characters that’s usually missing from ‘lesbian chic’ coverage; these women look more like twenty-something figures in underground video or Alison Bechdel’s Dykes To Watch Out For*.* GO FISH begins just about where coming-out films used to end.” — Sundance Film Festival

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