Where to find it: I couldn't find any streams of the movie, but since it's old and niche, the DVD or BluRay is probably pretty cheap (Funnily enough the movie still has an official Website here)
What is it, in summary?: Gender shenanigans! Fluid sexuality! Trashy teen rom com with a lot of queerness! The movie is about Luke, a young man who discovers that he has a genetic condition which will cause a change of sex following each orgasm. Zerophiliacs do not exist, but the conviction and daring of this feature-film debut by Martin Curland inspires belief in the impossible. On a solo camping excursion, Luke (Taylor Handley) loses his virginity [which activates his zerophiliac genes], a person with the ability to change sexes during the throws of sexual excitement. This perpetuates all sorts of confusion and panic when Luke, as Luca (Marieh Delfino), finds that he's no longer attracted to [only] Michelle (Rebecca Mozo) but [also] to her mechanic brother Max (Kyle Schmid). Sydney (Gina Bellman), a doctor and expert on Luke's very-rare condition, only confuses matters, telling the young man he must either live with his zerophilia or "lock" his sex by getting physical with another zerophiliac. Possibly the most homorific teen comedy ever made, Zerophila pushes a liquid view of sexual identity that's excitingly inquisitive about our personal sexual fantasies and hang-ups. The androgynous features of the super-cute cast befit the subject matter, but Curland's visual style is not as amorphous as his ideas. ...Still, while Curland's mind may move faster than his kino-eye, the story's conceptual imagination and flourishes boggle the mind―so much so the film should come with a surgeon general's warning: may cause gender confusion. (--Slant Magazine)
What do you love about it?: It's trashy, it's queer, it's fun! And it opened my eyes to fluid gender identity nd sexuality way back when. ;) I love the cast and the chemistry between all of them.
What sort of things are you likely to request for it?: Max/Michelle/Luke/Luca - the whole confusing and Wonderful relationship shenanigans that can ensue
Are there sections of canon (rather than the whole canon) that can be consumed by themselves to fulfil your requests, or that showcase particular characters and relationships?: I don't think so, but the movie itself isn't that long anyway
Content warnings (ie, rape, incest, racism, gore/violence): I guess what Sydney is doing with Luke is pretty manipulative and rather dubcon territory; all in all the movie's definitely NSFW
Zerophilia
Title:
Zerophilia
Media: movie
Approx length: 90 minutes
Where to find it:
I couldn't find any streams of the movie, but since it's old and niche, the DVD or BluRay is probably pretty cheap
(Funnily enough the movie still has an official Website here)
What is it, in summary?:
Gender shenanigans! Fluid sexuality! Trashy teen rom com with a lot of queerness!
The movie is about Luke, a young man who discovers that he has a genetic condition which will cause a change of sex following each orgasm.
Zerophiliacs do not exist, but the conviction and daring of this feature-film debut by Martin Curland inspires belief in the impossible. On a solo camping excursion, Luke (Taylor Handley) loses his virginity [which activates his zerophiliac genes], a person with the ability to change sexes during the throws of sexual excitement. This perpetuates all sorts of confusion and panic when Luke, as Luca (Marieh Delfino), finds that he's no longer attracted to [only] Michelle (Rebecca Mozo) but [also] to her mechanic brother Max (Kyle Schmid). Sydney (Gina Bellman), a doctor and expert on Luke's very-rare condition, only confuses matters, telling the young man he must either live with his zerophilia or "lock" his sex by getting physical with another zerophiliac. Possibly the most homorific teen comedy ever made, Zerophila pushes a liquid view of sexual identity that's excitingly inquisitive about our personal sexual fantasies and hang-ups. The androgynous features of the super-cute cast befit the subject matter, but Curland's visual style is not as amorphous as his ideas. ...Still, while Curland's mind may move faster than his kino-eye, the story's conceptual imagination and flourishes boggle the mind―so much so the film should come with a surgeon general's warning: may cause gender confusion. (--Slant Magazine)
What do you love about it?:
It's trashy, it's queer, it's fun! And it opened my eyes to fluid gender identity nd sexuality way back when. ;) I love the cast and the chemistry between all of them.
What sort of things are you likely to request for it?:
Max/Michelle/Luke/Luca - the whole confusing and Wonderful relationship shenanigans that can ensue
Are there sections of canon (rather than the whole canon) that can be consumed by themselves to fulfil your requests, or that showcase particular characters and relationships?:
I don't think so, but the movie itself isn't that long anyway
Content warnings (ie, rape, incest, racism, gore/violence):
I guess what Sydney is doing with Luke is pretty manipulative and rather dubcon territory; all in all the movie's definitely NSFW