Films
NuReality Productions is committed to bringing socially conscious stories to the screen in an imaginative and unique style.
VERASPHERE
Ruminations
The Night Minister
Library of Dust
VERASPHERE: A Love Story in Costume is a short documentary film from NuReality Productions. Two men, both diagnosed with AIDS and with little hope of a future come together in the mid 1990’s to create art in the form of elaborate and outrageous costumes. For David and Michael, what starts out as an intimate art project rapidly grows into a large and diverse tribe, all centered around one day of costumed celebration in the SF Pride Parade.
David and Michael narrate the story of their relationship, artistry, community building and survival. Along the way we are introduced to friends, neighbors, and members of the Verasphere collective who provide compelling personal insight into the brightly colored world David and Michael have crafted.
Not simply content with providing a highly visual community experience, David and Michael emphasize the environmental ethos of reuse and repurposing by offsetting large amounts of materials that would otherwise be destined for landfill. Armed with hot glue guns, David and Michael give discarded clothing, toys, and unwanted plastics a new life as wild and outlandish costumes to be marched in at the Pride Parade for years to come.
VERASPHERE brings the viewer inside the lives of David and Michael in an examination of the creation that gave them something to live for.
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RUMINATIONS is a gender-bending Coming of Age story that follows one pioneer of the counter-culture movement defined during the Sexual Revolution of the 1960’s in San Francisco. Original Cockette member Rumi Missabu left Hollywood 50 years ago on a quest for his true identity and found it in underground drag theater. Living off the grid from the age of 19, Rumi was a short-order cook, cleaned houses, and lived all over the country, amassing crazy adventures along the way. In the film, Rumi Missabu, will light a joint and pour the tea while ruminating about his encounters with everyone from Tina Turner to Jane Russell, Andy Warhol, Cindy Williams & more. RUMINATIONS will uncover the man James Bartlett underneath the artist Rumi Missabu, break down the fourth wall, and take the audience on the surreal adventure that is Rumi’s story. Join us as we ask, “Who is Rumi Missabu?” and solve a puzzle as dazzling as its main character.
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THE NIGHT MINISTER, NuReality’s forthcoming eight-part series, is the story of Dr. Ted McIlvenna, an eighty-three-old Methodist Minister, Sexologist, and holder of the world’s largest collection of erotic folk art. In 1976, he co-founded The Institute for the Advanced Study of Human Sexuality in San Francisco, the first school in America to offer a doctorate in Sexology. Since then, Dr. Ted’s influence has had a global effect, even inspiring the creation of a sexology school in China – the first of its kind in the country. Dr. Ted’s life work is to educate society on the incredible breadth of sexual experience. Join us as we travel through the decades and unveil the untold story of the sexual revolution.
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LIBRARY OF DUST, uncovers the discovery of thousands of copper urns containing cremated human remains at The Oregon State Mental Hospital in 2002. The canisters of cremains, some dating back as far as the late 1800’s, display an unearthly corrosive and unexplained effect. Hospital staff and families of the patients help us solve the mystery of these forgotten souls.
