Christian Calson
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Biography
Calson was born to a Romanian father and a Jewish-RomanianHistory of the Jews in Romania
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mother. They left Bucharest
Bucharest
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when he was 7 years old and settled in Glendale, California
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. He went on to enroll at Antioch University
Antioch University
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in Los Angeles, California
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. Developing an interest in music at an early age, he eventually became a music writer for the now cancelled Los Angeles LGBT
LGBT
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magazine "4-Front". Later Calson expanded his interests to include filmmaking.
Calson's films include Shiner and Flirting With Anthony. Rife with foul language and bad behavior, his characters and storylines are usually about sexual anxiety and a blurred line between sexuality and violence. He's been considered part of the NEW New Queer Cinema
New Queer Cinema
New Queer Cinema is a term first coined by the academic B. Ruby Rich in Sight & Sound magazine in 1992 to define and describe a movement in queer-themed independent filmmaking in the early 1990s...
(Frameline) but he has strong feelings of displeasure at most mainstream queer cinema. With the release of Shiner, he told The San Francisco Chronicle, "I want people to respond on a visceral level... I'm not after their minds, I'm after their gut. ... I'm not trying to make friends with this film."
Christian expanded his résumé again in 2008 by becoming a DJ
Disc jockey
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. He describes his musical style as Underground House or Progressive house. Performing at various private parties, he now also DJs at several Los Angeles LGBT clubs and venues.
Filmography
- Flirting With Anthony (feature film, 2005)
- Shiner (feature film, 2004)
- A Short Film About Flowers (an experimental short film, 2002)
- Beautiful / How To Walk Through A Door (short film, 2002)
- Moaner (short film, 2001)