Brontez Purnell

Brontez Purnell

Brontez Purnell is an Oakland-based writer, musician, dancer, and director. He is the author of several books, including Since I Laid My Burden Down (2017), and the zine Fag School; frontman for the punk band The Younger Lovers, and member of former band Gravy Train!!!!; and founder of the Brontez Purnell Dance Company.

Movies for Brontez Purnell...

100 Boyfriends Mixtape #3: Fuck Boy Anthem / How I Spent My Summer Vacation
Title: 100 Boyfriends Mixtape #3: Fuck Boy Anthem / How I Spent My Summer Vacation
Released: March 15, 2023
Type: Movie
100 Boyfriends Mixtape 3: Fuck Boy Anthem/How I Spent My Summer Vacation is a choreofilm/video zine mixtape that was made in intervals in the summer of 2020; it’s one of three mixtapes in a series Purnell conceptualized as video zine versions of his 20-year running print zine Fag School. The videos also give his recently published book of short stories, flash fiction, and stories told-in-verse, 100 Boyfriends, its name and inspiration.
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Title: Pride
Character: Self
Released: May 14, 2021
Type: TV
Six renowned LGBTQ+ directors explore heroic and heartbreaking stories that define America as a nation. The limited series spans the FBI surveillance of homosexuals during the 1950s Lavender Scare to the “Culture Wars” of the 1990s and beyond, exploring the queer legacy of the Civil Rights movement and the battle over marriage equality.
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Noah's Arc: The 'Rona Chronicles
Title: Noah's Arc: The 'Rona Chronicles
Released: July 29, 2020
Type: Movie
A pandemic-era reunion special of Patrik-Ian Polk’s groundbreaking ’Noah’s Arc’ series.
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Unstoppable Feat: The Dances of Ed Mock
Title: Unstoppable Feat: The Dances of Ed Mock
Character: Self
Released: June 23, 2018
Type: Movie
An investigation of the life of experimental, gay, black SF based choreographer Ed Mock - and his death of AIDS in 1986.
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100 Boyfriends Mixtape (The Demo)
Title: 100 Boyfriends Mixtape (The Demo)
Released: February 10, 2016
Type: Movie
Set in an urban fairytale, DeShawn (an unlikely anti-hero) is smack-dabbing in the middle of a peculiar crossroads. He is haunted by the ghosts of one hundred men: ex-“boyfriends,” in addition to the ghosts of everyone they dated. His days are filled with spiraling epiphanies and lucid, reckless bohemianism fueled by systemic poverty and HIV ennui. In this particular sketch he is relating his philosophy of the world to an unknown caller on his landline telephone while magically shrink-fitting a new pair of jeans that he recently shoplifted from Levi’s.
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100 Boyfriends Mixtape
Title: 100 Boyfriends Mixtape
Character: DeShawn
Released: September 1, 2015
Type: Movie
Dancer, musician, artist, and publisher of the cult queer zine Fag School, Brontez Purnell makes his directorial debut with this semi-autobiographical "video mix tape" by produced Jack Shamama and NakedSword Film Works. Relying on his punk rock aesthetic to give the world a peek into his singularly unique perspective, 100 Boyfriends Mixtape takes the viewer on an unforgettable ride that's as audacious as it is experimental.
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Together People
Title: Together People
Released: July 15, 2012
Type: Movie
Meet Gary, a disillusioned queen obsessed with status and “Quality of Life,” who’s living close to the edge, all the while pining for a garden cottage in Noe Valley. Vulgar people, sadistic people, ripped-off people—wherever and whenever people are falling apart, you'll find them: the Together People.
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I Want Your Love
Title: I Want Your Love
Character: Brontez
Released: July 12, 2012
Type: Movie
After a decade of living in San Francisco, Jesse is forced to move back to his Midwestern roots because he can no longer afford the city. On his final night in the city, friends and ex-lovers gather for a going away party that promises to heighten Jesse's already bittersweet feelings about leaving.
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Gravy Train!!!! Stame the Batch!
Title: Gravy Train!!!! Stame the Batch!
Character: Junx
Released: August 24, 2004
Type: Movie
Get to know Chunx, Funx, Hunx & Junx up close and personal on stage and behind the scenes in the first-ever authorized bootleg of the world's raunchiest bubblegum dance troupe ever...