AN EVENING of five short films has been curated as part of Liverpool’s LGBT festival.

Taking place on November 15 at FACT’s Picturehouse cinema, the programme includes three pieces by Homotopia artistic director Gary Everett.

They include his new film, The Vegetarian Opera, a dark comic fable of an imprisoned clown set in a dystopian, twisted and queer world.

Everett collaborated with Tim Brunsden for his 2009 work, The Invisible Death Of Michael, which explores the lack of media coverage surrounding the murder of gay Liverpool teenager Michael Causer in 2008.

Liverpool poet Gerry Potter narrates The Witherers, a new digital short produced for Homotopia TV, also directed by Brunsden and Everett.

Also on the bill is Tom’s Coming Home, directed by Mies Mikkonen, which documents the festival’s year-long exhibition of the work of celebrated Finnish artist Touko Laaksonen, better known as “Tom Of Finland”.

Loneliness and repression is explored through image and sound in Jonathan Larkin’s and Ben Youdan’s short film Shelter about a woman trapped in a box escapes to find a cold hard world waiting for her.

The Homotopia film programme continues on November 15 with the French feature Tomboy and on November 21 with two films chosen by local gay youth groups GYRO and Armistead.

SCREENING times and tickets at www.homotopia.net