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Charles Lum: This Is Where I Get Off

Bangor Films

70 min. Directed by Charles Lum, Todd Verow
  • Studio: Bangor Films
  • Directed By: Charles Lum, Todd Verow
  • Year: 2023
  • Runtime: 70 min.
  • Country: United States
  • Languages: English language
  • Captions: English captions, French captions, Spanish captions
  • Date Added: 2025/06/26

Curator's Note:

"A tribute to Charles Lum, radical filmmaker, HIV activist, kinkster and eternal sweetheart, told through the films he's left behind. Collated by his long-time collaborator Todd Verow, Charly navigates hooking up with HIV, kinky trips to leather conventions, and evolving into his 60s as a poz queer elder." - Rotten Tomatoes


Description:

A tribute to Charles Lum’s life told through his work as a filmmaker. Featuring Super-8 films Charlie shot as a young man 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.

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