45 RPM Love, by Dennis Conroy

David might not check his e-mail often. I sent a reply an hour after he sent his e-mail, but he hasn't replied yet.

Want to check the Frameline listing? It should be Frameline 20.

I just did the preliminary research to get out of the way basic stuff before we start digging deeper, and these are the results: 

First of all, I went to IMDB (both the regular and the mobile) to make sure I didn't miss any details we didn't know before, as well as confirming the current info we have:
- Cast: Only Dennis Conroy is credited as the director
- Duration: 6 minutes
- Country: USA (it doesn't specifies if it was shot in San Francisco)
- Release date: October 28 1996

With that out of the way, I checked Dennis Conroy's IMDB page to make sure we weren't missing any details, he's only credited for Lush Life as the co-director and editor, and 45 RPM Love as the director

I checked my-hit.org to see if they have any info about 45 RPM Love or Dennis Conroy, there's nothing

I repeated the quick Google search I did earlier to confirm if there was any useful results, and the answer is no, only the IMDB pages we already have, as well as that weird website which claims to have it on torrent, and also ANOTHER sketchy website which claims to have the audio on MP3, as well as a lot of unrelated vinyl resutls (because of the 45 RPM thing)

I checked on YouTube and have the same thing, a bunch of unrelated 45 RPM results. However, I did realize that there's a LOT of YouTube channels under the name of Dennis Conroy (including that old guy's channel which, as you remember, I proved is NOT our Dennis Conroy), 10 results to be specific. I checked them all, only a handful of them had something related to music, and I'm pretty sure non of them is the guy we're looking for, they're the typical YouTube channels made by people to upload old videos recorded with their cellphones during a family reunion just for funsies, having only 1-3 suscribers, and some of them not even one

And I think that's all, I'll make a proper summary of this information once we have a bit more of clues and, hopefully, Johnston responds

Quick off-topic question: Are you going to write articles about Lifesaver and Lush Life as well?

Looks like we missed something. 45 RPM Love is listed as being released at the Seattle Lesbian and Gay Film Festival. So, right idea, wrong city.

The archive of the Seattle Lesbian and Gay Film Festival only goes back to 1999. (It's called TWIST now.)

The National Library of Australia has a listing for it, but no copies. trove.nla.gov.au/work/34180151?q&versionId=42083124

Seattle, huh? Well that kinda rules out the LinkedIn page I found, but we should still keep it in mind and do a research on it later, at least we know that it is in fact another LGBT production

No copies means that it is still lost, huh? Well I guess we have another mission here, let's go for our third find! (Technically fourth)

Yeah I'd do the articles, but as you probably already noticed I'm not that good at writing stuff (not even in spanish) and I don't even know how to create an article to begin with, so I'll be counting on you for that

Alright, I'll try to dig something up later tonight

I decided to check what I could find with the newest clue I found yesterday, and I think I have something kinda big

First of all, I found another article on Chicago Reader which talks about The 14th Chicago Lesbian & Gay International Film Festival, unfortunately it has no information about 45 RPM Love, but still, it is good to have it for reference

Now, I decided to check what was that Homocore thing, apparently it is also known as "Queercore", and it's some kind of punk sub-genre, I won't go into details because it is not relevant for this search, but I got some info about Homocore Chicago, the people who chose 45 RPM Love for showing on the The 14th Chicago Lesbian & Gay International Film Festival. According to their Facebook page:


"Homocore Chicago was founded in 1992 by Joanna Brown and Mark Freitas. Homocore was a regular space for queer punks to gather and featured live music by queercore and feminist punk bands"


At first I thought about sending them a message, but eventually I found an even better clue

I stumbled upon a movie called Forever's Gonna Start Tonight, directed by Michelle Lawler. Nothing much of our interest is going on here, except that Dennis Conroy is mentioned on the "special thanks" section of the credits, so I decided to check if I could find any more info about this Michelle Lawler person, and I hit the jackpot

First of all I found Forever's Gonna Start Tonight on vimeo, even though I don't know if the actual Michelle Lawler uploaded it, the channel is called, you guessed, MICHELLE LAWLER, and it has other videos about this person, so I thought about sending a message, but eventually I found even more info, more specifically an IMDB page, which led me to the official website, which led me to an email and a Twitter account, so of course I went and send a tweet as soon as possible. Even though that Twitter account doesn't seem to be that active, but still we gotta try, in case I don't get any response I'll try sending an email eventually. I told this person that I'm looking for 45 RPM Love, and asked if Dennis Conroy rang any bell. Hopefully we can get some good info about him, maybe even his contact info. I'll report as soon as I get a response (if I ever do). Here are the useful URLs:

The OTHER Chicago Reader article: www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/the-14th-chicago-lesbian--gay-international-film-festival/Content?oid=885962
Forever's Gonna Start Tonight on vimeo (for reference): vimeo.com/80952090
Michelle Lawler's official website: www.michellelawlerdp.com/#page/home
Michelle Lawler's IMDB page: www.imdb.com/name/nm2044345/?ref_=tt_ov_dr
Michelle Lawler's LinkedIn page: www.linkedin.com/in/michelle-lawler-4aa68057
Mention of Dennis Conroy on the film's credits (look special thanks section): www.thefilmcollaborative.org/films/img/epk/Press_Kit_FGST_090110.pdf

Got a little bit more of info, still nothing big though, only bits and pieces

First of all, I found several mentions of Dennis Conroy at the 18th and 25th San Francisco International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, so he seems to be a recurrent personality in those

On the 18th San Francisco International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, a fraction of 45 RPM Love was shown in some kind of compilation of short movies from the US and Canada called Homo Mix, apparently 3 minutes of 45 RPM Love were shown

As for the 25th San Francisco International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, he is mentioned as being part of the screening commitee, he did a review on the film Sleep in a Nest of Flames, and he was also mentioned as a contributor on the list of dedications

Last but not least, the San Francisco Public Library has it listed, though I don't quite understand that website so I don't understand if they have an actual copy or if they're just acknowledging its existence. As a quick note, I've been finding several mentions of the film under the alternate title "Forty Five [45] RPM Love", so gotta keep that in mind

Finally, still no response from Michelle Lawler

Frameline of the 18th San Francisco International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival: issuu.com/frameline/docs/18th-sanfrancisco-international-lgbt-film-festival/35
Frameline of the 25th San Francisco International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival: issuu.com/frameline/docs/25th-sanfrancisco-international-lgbt-film-festival/11
Listing of 45 RPM Love on the San Francisco Public Library website: sfpl.org/index.php?pg=2000838402&start=940