ORNAMENTS YouTube video by Gerald Blanchard

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You can watch Ornaments on my Youtube channel! #shortfilm #experimentalfilm #portlandfilm #queerfilm

Ive been making music lately — hoping to share soon and incorporate music videos etc. It’s ambitious but the world might end so what else do I have left but to create?

#gayman #queerartist #gaypdx 🎶Kenneth Anger, Jean Genet, Fassbender as u leave me 🎶

Can't wait to see everyone at Tag! Queer Shorts Festival 2026!

Six women pose for a glam shot in a magenta-lit bathroom.

Who's making their mark at Tag! 2026? A woman early in her transition finds community and acceptance in Sorority from @ashleygianni.bsky.social, it's in our opening block on April 11, 4pm. Don't miss it, get your tix today at cstpdxtickets.square.site @cstpdx.bsky.social

Background image shows the end of Tillikum Crossing with a utility box painted with "Fuck ICE." The festival logo appears at the top and below it are details of the Tagging Cascadia session of the festival on April 12, 7pm.

The festival closes with PNW directing/acting talent. Come support your fam!

A Seat at the Table [USA]
A Wedding to Diego [USA]
Controlling the Narrative [USA]
Hell is Cool [Aotearoa]
Mean Goals [USA]
Mickaela: Connection | Isolation [USA]
Ornaments [USA]
Room for the Rest [Canada]
Unmasking [USA]

ORNAMENTS YouTube video by Gerald Blanchard

youtu.be/dwVAllIF1W4?...

You can watch Ornaments on my Youtube channel! #shortfilm #experimentalfilm #portlandfilm #queerfilm

The project was also influenced by my own traumatic injury. I suffered a skull fracture during the ice storm of 2024. I slipped on ice on concrete steps and hit the back of my head so hard that I actually lost my memory for 10 hours. I think Ornaments explores fears of losing all that you love.

2022 Skinamarink found footage homemade horror influenced my own project Ornaments where I wanted to create an atmosphere of a childhood nightmare. I used footage from my own childhood VHS memories to turn childhood innocence into a scary realization that the past is only an ornament.

I created this account with the horror slumber party moniker which is used to showboat my VHS tapes but I think this will become sort of just a landing page for all things in that horror realm. I want to create horror movies in particular that focus around queer identities and themes.

Tag logo and QR code to submit films to Tag! Queer Shorts Festival.

Submissions for 2025 end in 10 days! Get your film to Tag! at filmfreeway.com/tagqsf. Films featuring recovery or from Latine/Hispane directors could win an award sponsored by Quest Center or Milagro! Waivers are available to regional and BIPOC creators; contact the festival at info@tagqsf.org.

I think the original obsession with the idea of Ornaments came from a year or so ago hanging ornaments on the tree. Captivated with holding objects that have traveled through time. Relics that hold so much meaning. #filmmaking #shortfilms #queerfilms