Charles Lum Movies

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...

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

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...

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

An afternoon visit to a small city Sex Shoppe yields excitement, surprise and comic relief.

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

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.

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

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

SHOW HARD: short films by Charles Lum & Todd Verow Award winning short documentary and narrative films about gay sex and cruising. including: ...