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**WARNING**: This film contains graphic nudity and explicit sexual acts that may be upsetting and/or offensive to some viewers. John Cameron Mitchell's SHORTBUS explores the lives of several emotionally challenged characters as they navigate the comic and tragic intersections between love and s...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors: Oscilloscope Laboratories (Firm), Fortissimo Films, Q Television (Firm), Process (Firm)
Other Authors: Lee, Sook-Yin (Actor), Dawson, Paul (Actor), Beamish, Lindsay (Actor), Deboy, PJ (Actor), Barker, Raphael (Actor)
Format: Video
Language:English
Language Notes:In English; closed-captioned.
Published: New York, N.Y. : Oscilloscope Laboratories, 2006.
Subjects:
Women > Sexual behavior > New York (State) > New York > Drama.
Men > Sexual behavior > New York (State) > New York > Drama.
Sex > New York (State) > New York > Drama.
Gay people > New York (State) > New York > Drama.
Man-woman relationships > New York (State) > New York > Drama.
Salons > New York (State) > New York > Drama.
New York (N.Y.) > Drama.
Independent films
Motion pictures
Feature films
Erotic films.
Sex comedy films.
Comedy films.
Gay films.
Lesbian films.
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Online Access:Connect to this streaming video (Kanopy)
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Summary:**WARNING**: This film contains graphic nudity and explicit sexual acts that may be upsetting and/or offensive to some viewers. John Cameron Mitchell's SHORTBUS explores the lives of several emotionally challenged characters as they navigate the comic and tragic intersections between love and sex in and around a modern-day underground salon. A sex therapist who has never had an orgasm, a dominatrix who is unable to connect, a gay couple who are deciding whether to open up their relationship, and the people who weave in and out of their lives, all converge on a weekly gathering called Shortbus: a mad nexus of art, music, politics, and polysexual carnality. Set in a post-9/11, Bush-exhausted New York City, SHORTBUS tells its story with sexual frankness, suggesting new ways to reconcile questions of the mind, pleasures of the flesh, and imperatives of the heart.
Item Description:Title from title frames.
Unrated ; contains sexually explicit content.
Physical Description:1 online resource (streaming video file) (101 min.) : flv file, sound
Production Credits:Director of photography, Frank G. DeMarco ; editor, Brian A. Kates ; original score, Yo La Tengo ; costume designers, Kurt and Bart ; production designer, Jody Asnes.