Michael Wallin

A grief-stricken sailor answers a mysterious call from the sea.

This pre-AIDS film offers an explicit exploration of gay male sexuality. Dealing with sexual love and sexual hunger this film shows how tenderness can enter into the male sexual act.

This pre-AIDS film offers an explicit exploration of gay male sexuality. Dealing with sexual love and sexual hunger this film shows how tenderness can enter into the male sexual act.

This pre-AIDS film offers an explicit exploration of gay male sexuality. Dealing with sexual love and sexual hunger this film shows how tenderness can enter into the male sexual act.

What will it take to hold a heart, whether it's behind closed doors, beneath the surface, joining the party or is it room service? To Hold a Heart -- Directed by Michael Wallin, 13 min Closed Doors -- Directed by Beatrix Moersch, 8 min Beneath the Surface -- Directed by Kirk Shannon-Butts, 9 min Join the Party -- Directed by Stephan Deraucriox, 10 min Room Service --- Directed by Daniel Reitz, 20 min Time Will Tell -- Directed by Kelly West, 7 min No, Final Answer -- Directed by Jose Sunsin, 5 min El Dia de mi Boda -- Directed by Rafael Robles Guierrez, 22 min

Decodings is an indelible found footage film that explores the possibilities of, and barriers to, intimate relationships between men and was produced at the height of AIDS hysteria. - Early Monthly Segments

Decodings is an indelible found footage film that explores the possibilities of, and barriers to, intimate relationships between men and was produced at the height of AIDS hysteria. - Early Monthly Segments

Decodings is an indelible found footage film that explores the possibilities of, and barriers to, intimate relationships between men and was produced at the height of AIDS hysteria. - Early Monthly Segments

The psychological and emotional motivations of gay sexual fetish, especially relating to gay male teens maturing into men and their sexual exploits.

The psychological and emotional motivations of gay sexual fetish, especially relating to gay male teens maturing into men and their sexual exploits.

Can two men of vastly different ages and cultures make a go of it together?

"Long live dynamic geometry, the movement of points, lines, surfaces, volumes ...." - Dziga Vertov Uses precisely (mathematically) determined single-framing to give movement to static space, to give life and energy to solid objects, to duplicate/mimic the eye's true movements, to forcefully bring to consciousness an inherent symmetry and balance in the visual field. Images: deadened railroad tracks, ice plant fields, Bethlehem Steel smokestack, Canyon Cinema office, back porch clouds and sky, PG&E plant at Moss Landing ....

Explores the juncture of psychology and spirituality as expressed in the writing of the Russian mystic/philosopher Gurdjieff and his student Ouspensky. A deconstruction (via rhythmic repetition and optical printing) of the notion of personality, as expressed in gesture and vocal nuance, that becomes almost unconscious in behavior. An attempt to bring to consciousness these idiosyncratic traits and break the cycle of waking sleep.

Kali is the goddess of physical form and transformation in Hindu mythology - thus, the varied textures, colors, and shapes of our transitory existence: the many from the one .... A de-attachment from conventional seeing, with its naming, values and judgments. Weight lifters, drill teams, skyscrapers, majorettes, forests, trains, Pacific Ocean, military schoolboys, conveyor belts, fog .... A structural use of dissolves, fades, and layered sound to carry the momentum of the film. Felicity Facility.

A visual journal or diary, an experimental "travelogue," where the signposts of interest are equally elements of architecture and plant life as people and events.

A "spiritual" soap opera, dealing with blackmail and bisexuality. The camera refuses to manipulate, but is rather an interested spectator. The plot unfolds organically (rather than mechanically) as the actors (through the vehicle of skeletal storyline and spirited, and inspired, improvisation) begin to absorb the feelings and traits of the characters they are portraying. An experiment within the narrative tradition, and a critique and extension of the possibilities within that form. Inspired by the early narrative films of Andy Warhol.

Reminiscences of an idyllic summer spent in Mendocino, California in 1968. Portraits of close friends, including a romantic vision of a high school infatuation. Footage of mentor and friend, filmmaker Bruce Baillie. First tentative, naïve filmic explorations.