Malic Amalya

Cruising in a graveyard, queers roam the permeable boundaries between exile and ecstasy.

Individual film frames document cycles of destruction, resilience, and transformation within the Bay Area. Shots include the abandoned Parkway Theater in Oakland, closed in 2009; filmmaker Mary Helena Clark in her Berkeley studio; the Black Hole Cinematheque in Oakland, founded by Tooth; historical images of the 1906 San Francisco fire; pool tides in the remaining structure of the Sutro Baths, first built in 1896 and knocked down by arson in 1966; and the dormant Woodminster amphitheater, built in the late 1930’s under Roosevelt’s New Deal project.

An epic anthology feature film event combining 25 shorts from different queer directors worldwide, each telling a story based on a color/fetish of the infamous hanky code.

A remake of Jack Smith's 1969 film, “Song for Rent.” Open captions and audio description make the film accessible to a wider audience, while playing a critical role in the film’s structure.

Shot at sites of nuclear development, detonation, industry, tourism, and activism, "RUN!" examines the ways that ideologies of war structure landscapes, community rituals, cinematic technology, entomology, pandemic management, and even notions of LGBTQ liberation.

Through the process of contact printing, hand processing, and low-fi optical printing, Gossamer Walls remembers, mis-remembers, and reinterprets a previous generation’s super 8 home movies.

Cruising in a graveyard, queers roam the permeable boundaries between exile and ecstasy.

Cruising in a graveyard, queers roam the permeable boundaries between exile and ecstasy.

Individual film frames document cycles of destruction, resilience, and transformation within the Bay Area. Shots include the abandoned Parkway Theater in Oakland, closed in 2009; filmmaker Mary Helena Clark in her Berkeley studio; the Black Hole Cinematheque in Oakland, founded by Tooth; historical images of the 1906 San Francisco fire; pool tides in the remaining structure of the Sutro Baths, first built in 1896 and knocked down by arson in 1966; and the dormant Woodminster amphitheater, built in the late 1930’s under Roosevelt’s New Deal project.

Individual film frames document cycles of destruction, resilience, and transformation within the Bay Area. Shots include the abandoned Parkway Theater in Oakland, closed in 2009; filmmaker Mary Helena Clark in her Berkeley studio; the Black Hole Cinematheque in Oakland, founded by Tooth; historical images of the 1906 San Francisco fire; pool tides in the remaining structure of the Sutro Baths, first built in 1896 and knocked down by arson in 1966; and the dormant Woodminster amphitheater, built in the late 1930’s under Roosevelt’s New Deal project.

An epic anthology feature film event combining 25 shorts from different queer directors worldwide, each telling a story based on a color/fetish of the infamous hanky code.

A remake of Jack Smith's 1969 film, “Song for Rent.” Open captions and audio description make the film accessible to a wider audience, while playing a critical role in the film’s structure.

A remake of Jack Smith's 1969 film, “Song for Rent.” Open captions and audio description make the film accessible to a wider audience, while playing a critical role in the film’s structure.

Shot at sites of nuclear development, detonation, industry, tourism, and activism, "RUN!" examines the ways that ideologies of war structure landscapes, community rituals, cinematic technology, entomology, pandemic management, and even notions of LGBTQ liberation.

Shot at sites of nuclear development, detonation, industry, tourism, and activism, "RUN!" examines the ways that ideologies of war structure landscapes, community rituals, cinematic technology, entomology, pandemic management, and even notions of LGBTQ liberation.

Through the process of contact printing, hand processing, and low-fi optical printing, Gossamer Walls remembers, mis-remembers, and reinterprets a previous generation’s super 8 home movies.

Through the process of contact printing, hand processing, and low-fi optical printing, Gossamer Walls remembers, mis-remembers, and reinterprets a previous generation’s super 8 home movies.

An experimental 16mm film that investigates colonial ideologies through aerodynamic, mechanical, and ballistic flight. Inside the Earth’s atmosphere, "First Breath on Mars" chronicles the establishment of ornithology in the United States. Outside the Earth’s atmosphere, the film probes into dreams of and developments in space exploration.

An experimental 16mm film that investigates colonial ideologies through aerodynamic, mechanical, and ballistic flight. Inside the Earth’s atmosphere, "First Breath on Mars" chronicles the establishment of ornithology in the United States. Outside the Earth’s atmosphere, the film probes into dreams of and developments in space exploration.

Plastic Aortas is a portrait of the black plastic encasing the Fells Reservoir in the unceded land of the Massachusett, Pawtucket, and Naumkeag indigenous peoples. The lining was placed there by conservationists in order to mitigate the invasive Common Reed, which is killing native plants. However, the lining also interferes with wildlife and contaminates the water.

Plastic Aortas is a portrait of the black plastic encasing the Fells Reservoir in the unceded land of the Massachusett, Pawtucket, and Naumkeag indigenous peoples. The lining was placed there by conservationists in order to mitigate the invasive Common Reed, which is killing native plants. However, the lining also interferes with wildlife and contaminates the water.

In psychoanalytic theory, a dream of a fallen tooth represents fears of castration. In Magnetic Resonance, a cicada falls to its death and New Wave musician Marc Almond falls to the feet of Clint Ruin; a tooth stands in for a brain tumor and the naked legs of the filmmakers on a sheet-less mattress stand in for Almond and Ruin’s performance on stage. "Castrated" bodies become conduits of attraction.

In psychoanalytic theory, a dream of a fallen tooth represents fears of castration. In Magnetic Resonance, a cicada falls to its death and New Wave musician Marc Almond falls to the feet of Clint Ruin; a tooth stands in for a brain tumor and the naked legs of the filmmakers on a sheet-less mattress stand in for Almond and Ruin’s performance on stage. "Castrated" bodies become conduits of attraction.

"I Wake Up with a Flower in my Hand" is a 25-year anniversary remix of "Killer Janitors,” a cable access TV show created by high school sophomores, Kasten Searles & Malic Amalya. Using all original footage and adding no special effects, the new cut focuses on how the best friends saw each other and understood themselves within the context of their friendship, high school, home lives, and a world beyond their small-town confinements—felt but not yet touched.

"I Wake Up with a Flower in my Hand" is a 25-year anniversary remix of "Killer Janitors,” a cable access TV show created by high school sophomores, Kasten Searles & Malic Amalya. Using all original footage and adding no special effects, the new cut focuses on how the best friends saw each other and understood themselves within the context of their friendship, high school, home lives, and a world beyond their small-town confinements—felt but not yet touched.

Against a backdrop of electrocution, dominance, and scientific precision, wasps nest in an abandoned refrigerator, eyelashes flutter, curtains blow in open windows, and queers congregate. Adapting Stanley Milgram's 1963 experiment on obedience to authority, "Gold Moon, Sharp Arrow" explores how queer communities reenact, resist, and respond to assimilation, coercion, and trauma.

Against a backdrop of electrocution, dominance, and scientific precision, wasps nest in an abandoned refrigerator, eyelashes flutter, curtains blow in open windows, and queers congregate. Adapting Stanley Milgram's 1963 experiment on obedience to authority, "Gold Moon, Sharp Arrow" explores how queer communities reenact, resist, and respond to assimilation, coercion, and trauma.

A housefly transitions into a man in order to cruise gay bars. Text and images appropriated from the March 1985 issue of “Manscape,” an adult, gay digest magazine.

A housefly transitions into a man in order to cruise gay bars. Text and images appropriated from the March 1985 issue of “Manscape,” an adult, gay digest magazine.

Caught in a system of confinement, surveillance, and restriction, a leather outlaw eludes the state by recalling his lover bathed in Vaseline.

Caught in a system of confinement, surveillance, and restriction, a leather outlaw eludes the state by recalling his lover bathed in Vaseline.

An examination of the carceral logics of the Orca Encounter at SeaWorld and the “Doing Time” tour of the former Alcatraz prison in the San Francisco Bay.

An examination of the carceral logics of the Orca Encounter at SeaWorld and the “Doing Time” tour of the former Alcatraz prison in the San Francisco Bay.

To clutch. To grasp.

To clutch. To grasp.

A field guide from the Oakland Hills.

A field guide from the Oakland Hills.

I practice being thirty-two by biking around Oakland and dressing the same as I did at age fourteen.

I practice being thirty-two by biking around Oakland and dressing the same as I did at age fourteen.