Fred Halsted

Jonas Mekas assembles 160 portraits, appearances, and fleeting sketches of underground and independent filmmakers captured between 1955 and 1996. Fast-paced and archival in spirit, the film celebrates the avant-garde as its own “nation of cinema,” a vital community existing outside the dominance of commercial film.

Personal diary-style documentary of German Gay rights activist Von Praunheim's sojourn in the US.

Two men have a fleetingly idyllic meeting outside of Los Angeles while Fred Halsted shows a young pick-up the ropes within city limits.

The film, narrated by "LA Plays Itself" director Fred Halstead, begins by looking at the muscle magazines and films of the late 1940s-early 1960s, then at the softcore films of the late 60s and the boundary-pushing and legal-testing which allowed these to evolve into hardcore loops and then features.

Hank and Gene are fired from their trucker jobs at the Kansas City Trucking Company after an alcohol-fueled brawl.

A supposedly straight stud is given a guided tour through the seamy S&M underbelly of Hollywood’s glitzy socialite scene by his trans paramour.

A night at Nighthawk, the hottest club in L.A., turns into a saga of leather and lust as Fred Halsted steals Paul Monroe's leather jacket -- and much more.

Fred Halsted spends a night pursuing Greg Dale — and others — at his after-hours Silverlake sex club, Halsted's.

Looking for some solid gold all-male action? You'll find it here! Superstud Dan Pace has to get "worked up" for his big strip number and a stack of hand-on mags do the trick. Dan's fantasies come to life in one blistering scene after another.

"The Filth and the Fury" is a 4-hour compilation of scenes from some of HIS Studio's gay adult films over the years of 1974-1984: 501 (1982), Alley Cats (1983), The Brig (1982), California Fox (1979), Dreamer (1974), El Paso Wrecking Corp. (1977), Gayracula (1983), Heatstroke (1982), Jobsite (1984), Kansas City Trucking Co. (1976), L.A. Tool and Die (1979), Nighthawk in Leather (1982), Pieces of Eight (1980), Revenge of the Nighthawk (1983), and Sleaze (1982).

Paul Monroe has taken over the reins from Fred Halsted and buys a used leather jacket and finds out an adventure comes with it. The odyssey of the jacket finds hot men in uninhibited scenes with sailors, leathermen, college jocks and hard muscled bodies as the saga of Nighthawk continues...

Navy petty officers J.W. King and R.J. Reynolds get an order from Lt. Strong: Break in Seaman Richie's throat and tail.

A group of friends swap festish-oriented stories.