Charles Lum Movies

On February 17, 2020, Charles Lum woke up seeing double. A week later his doctor called with news that a “mass” in his brain was HIV...

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...

An epic saga of sexual melodrama, it’s also a refugee story of persecution and perseverance, with an added dollop of divine luck. Howie gives a...

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.

A group of older gay men get together every month and have sex parties.

A dialogue about sex, responsibility and HIV, after the (f) act. A confrontational work that analyzes media, intimacy and AIDS in triple critique,...

AIDS CONFERENCE C***SUCKERS provocatively segues a spontaneous sexual encounter with the myriad activities at this huge and historic conference,...

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...

Voice-over narration describes Tom's Gift, a sex shop in rural America closed by municipal ordinance.

Crawling text complicates and explicates a multi-channel single screen street documentary of the 12/18/10 protest against the Smithsonian...

Did you think that a blowjob in a shower can’t be artsy? Tone down the colors, add some grain, play a voicemail, and you get Call Me...

Filmmaker Charles Lum goes looking for love in places where it will not be found. A 'come-along' stalker video!

Meet Sparky the star of this dog show hosted by the annual International Mr. Leather contest.

The Fair theater in Jackson Heights, Queens is one of the oldest continually running gay establishments in New York City. A loyal patron of the Fair...

A short film that portrays filmmaker Charles Lum’s conversations with his own doctors, shrinks, nurses, and pharmacists, then juxtaposing these...