Origins Of Gay Film

Monday, March 12, 7:00pm Origins of Gay Film Featuring: "A Florida Enchantment" (1914), "Different Then The Others" (1919) Presented by FLIFF & Cinema Paradiso 503 SE 6th Street Ft. Lauderdale, FL $10 for both films / $5 for FLIFF members www.fliff.com  954-525-FILM A Florida Enchantment (USA / 1914)   Filmed in Ft Lauderdale, A Florida Enchantment tells the story of a young woman who is frustrated with her fiancé's affairs. She finds and eats some magic seeds that cause the person who eats them to switch sex. After dealing with the irritation of shaving her morning mustache, she exchanges ideas of revenge for the new-found pleasures of embracing other women. By the time her now-ex-fiancé eats one & becomes a woman in a man's body, we've begun a drama of bewildered sexual identity. Different From the Others (Germany / 1919)   A successful violinist, Paul Koerner, falls in love with one of his male students. An extortionist blackmails him with threats that he will expose him as a homosexual. Koerner & the extortionist end up in court, where the judge is sympathetic to the violinist, but when the scandal becomes public, his career is ruined & he is driven to suicide.