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James Kleinmann

James Kleinmann

Acting

Known For

Goodbye Seventies
4.7

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

Goodbye Seventies

2020
The End of Cruising
4.0

A documentary about gay male cruising and public sex and how it has changed over the years.

The End of Cruising

2013
Squirrels
4.3

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.

Squirrels

2018
You Can't Stay Here
N/A

Rick, a photographer, witnesses the brutal murder of a gay man in Central Park. With the cops taking little interest in the crime, a dangerous and sexy game of cat and mouse ensues between Rick and the killer, Adam.

You Can't Stay Here

2023
Memorabilia
N/A

As an older gay man lies dying in a hospital room, he tries to remember all of his past lovers. Over the years, he had filmed many of his lovers as a way to capture them, but now the films are disintegrating – fading away just like his memories. Shot entirely on super8 film, this touching new film incorporates archival footage shot by Charles Lum in the 1970s and '80s (including footage from his time as an exchange student in Norway), archival footage shot by Todd Verow in the 1980s and '90s, as well as new footage by Verow. With a script based on Lum's stories and cruising diaries, and stories written by Verow, Memorabilia is a beautiful visual homage to love, as well as a testament to its creators' close friendship and mutual understanding in how to tell a story. Charles Lum never saw this film come to life, but he would no doubt have been proud of the result.

Memorabilia

2024
This Side of Heaven
1.0

V, an older trans woman, is desperately trying to hold on to her rent stabilized apartment in New York City.

This Side of Heaven

2016
Age of Consent
2.8

The story of the HOIST, London's first and only Gay Fetish Bar, coincides with the political struggle to decriminalize homosexual activity within the United Kingdom.

Age of Consent

2014
The Gay Agenda 24
N/A

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."

The Gay Agenda 24

2023
My Almost First Time
1.0

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.

My Almost First Time

2022
I Have Mike Pence's Dick in a Pickle Jar. Want to See It?
2.0

While cruising for sex, a gay man has a once-in-a-lifetime chance to right some recent political wrongs and make America great again.

I Have Mike Pence's Dick in a Pickle Jar. Want to See It?

2019
LDR
2.0

Two gay men navigate a burgeoning long distance relationship with the help of video calls.

LDR

2018
F***ed in the Head
N/A

Scott is still sleeping with his ex-boyfriend and floundering through life when his mother calls to tell him his older sister Maggie is in the hospital with a brain tumor. Scott rushes to be by her side. As she lies unconscious he remembers the times their lives intersected. She was a party girl, a popular girl, she got around. Scott imagines what Maggie would say but ultimately realizes that you can never truly know anyone and decides to take a chance on love and life.

F***ed in the Head

2022
Covid Summer
2.0

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.

Covid Summer

2021
Swimming to the End of the World
1.0

A world-weary gay man remembers lost lovers as he swims from the Christopher Street Piers in New York City to Provincetown, Massachusetts.

Swimming to the End of the World

2021
Charles Lum: This Is Where I Get Off
N/A

A tribute to Charles Lum’s life told through his work as a film maker. Featuring Super-8 films Charlie shot as a teenager in the 1970s up to the last film he made about his battle with AIDS related lymphoma. Charlie AKA Clublum was a much-loved and valued member of our queer and film community, whose films defied the taboos and stigmas of sex, sex in public places and sex with HIV. His films embody a quirky earnestness and a wacky and wicked sense of humor and always the utter delight and pleasure of another body.

Charles Lum: This Is Where I Get Off

2022
Last Year at Belvedere
N/A

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.

Last Year at Belvedere

2023
Cruising 2020
N/A

An update on William Friedkin's classic film CRUISING.

Cruising 2020

2020