Mom, Dad, I Have Something to Tell You
Selected by Allan deSouza, 52 minutes

Growing up is a real pain, a time of hard realities and abandoned dreams; but it's also a time of thrilling discoveries, juicy secrets, illicit pleasures and the last flings of total abandon. This selection of film and video joins a roller-coaster of happily twisted kids discovering their own bodies, their emotions and their parents' secrets; from the painful and explicit, to the cute, playful and joyous. This program is not suitable for children.

PROGRAM:

State of the Union by Bryan Boyce,
1:43, 2001
The Teletubbies gleefully skewer George Bush in the kind of kids' programming we wish they would make.

My Heart the Lunchbox by Jeremy Drummond,
1:43, 2001
Getting beaten up at school was never like this.

The Girl Who Lost Her Tongue by Allison Foust,
1:47, 2001
Animated parable about girl who, quite literally, loses her tongue.

Storage Room by Jeremy Drummond,
2:50, 2001
Boy reminisces (explicitly) about discovering his parents' cache of sex toys.

Sinalela by Dan Taulapapa McMullin,
3:00
A scullery-maid to queen Cinderella story, but with a cast of Samoan transgenders and drag queens!

Strip Mall Trilogy (ABC) by Roger Beebe,
3:00, 2001
A simple enough premise of kids singing their ABC while visuals fast edit through street signs of ABC letters, but it's uproariously funny and absolutely lovable.

Svetlo (Light) by David Sukup,
7:50, film, 2001,
Dreamlike animation of two kids who break a lightbulb, then frolic in the gushing rivers of light.

Things Girls Do by Broderick Fox, 10:00, 2001
Beautifully shot, haunting tale about anorexia, sexuality and gender, but not at all one we might think we are familiar with.

Sharony by Jennet Thomas,
10:00
Everything you've heard about that archetypally-British repressed sexuality is released in this live action fairy tale about two girls who make a baby that grows up to be an inflatable doll.

Rules of the Game By Gustavo Artigas,
11:00
Chaos reigns as soccer and basketball games are played simultaneously on the same court. This is sport as it should be.