Director, writer, producer, educator, activist, Kalin is a leading light of the "new wave" in gay filmmaking. He started out by writing and directing a variety of short films and videos for the museum circuit, including "Puppets", "Gesicht", "finally destroy us", "News From Home" and "They Are Lost to Vision Altogether". The latter two have been exhibited at numerous international festival venues. Kalin also worked for three years as a producer of AIDS educational materials.Kalin made his feature debut with "Swoon" (1991), a stylized meditation on the notorious 1924 Leopold and Loeb murder
