THE LESBIAN ALIEN DARKROOM FISTING OPERETTA ON VENUS
Lasse Långström, Sweden, Germany, 2022, 9′, VOSV st EN
The two women with tentacles invite the captain of the Sea Butches into a lesbian darkroom on Venus.
LA NOCHE DEL MINOTAURO
Juliana Zuluaga Montoya, Colombia, 2023, 11′, VOES st EN
People wonder where the birds will die. My grandmother’s village had a lighthouse nestled among the mountains, a forest teeming with creatures, and an echo that reverberated through the night like a warm wind. That was where the birds would die. THE NIGHT OF THE MINOTAUR is a fantasy tale that draws on archival footage to trace the story of Luz Emilia García, the pioneer of porn cinema in Colombia.
LA BELLE ET LA BÊTE
Mathieu Morel, France, 2021, 13′, VO st FR/EN
Tonight’s program has been composed by and for grown-ups who are children at heart. Eternal history, the tale of Belle-Rose. Also known as Beauty and the Beast. Warning, some images are likely to offend homophobic sensibilities.
A CYBORG MANIFESTO
Four Chambers, United Kingdom, 2020, 5′, VOEN st FR
“- original commissioned by The Museum of Sex for the CAM LIFE exhibition, ‘A Cyborg Manifesto’ is a visual essay and a personal exploration of a life spent online.
“”We broadcast our image in cells and pixels across continents, viewed by lenses, pushed through codecs and compression algorithms, adapting new ways to circumvent the physical. Thousands of people every day fuck and fuck themselves broadcast live via webcam.
I spent 4 years from 2012-2016 live online, executing a carefully choreographed performance of authenticity – shapeshifting, adapting, morphing. My sex and self monetised for consumption, working for tips. Records of this will outlive me, videos of cam shows ripped, recorded and uploaded on illegal sites, digital time capsules or ticking time bombs.
We exist in a system that commodifies our personhood, our images, our data and our lives online, to harness that isn’t freedom from it but it can be control.”””
THE BOYS WHO SIT DOWN TO PEE
Bonaventure Tain, Malaysia, Singapore, 2023, 22′, VO st FR
“Boys who step into toilet cubicles instead of standing at the urinals have a secret to hide. It is more than physical or psychological, it’s a congenital condition. ‘The Boys Who Sit Down to Pee’ embarks on a deeply personal exploration of ‘hypospadias’ patients”
CUM AS YOU ARE
Hanna Schaich, Germany, 2022, 12′, VOEN st FR
“Anyone who suspects a zeitgeist-inherent statement on identity politics behind the imperative of the title thinks too small. You will be overrun by a declaration of force of what is (primeval) female, which is clinking with strength.
Hanna Schaich’s piece is, typical for her, rooted in the autobiographical. She radically raises her voice and gets others who are angry to join her own anger. Together they show how sex can be felt with all senses, naturally with body and mind. All scenes are carried by poetry that sounds like the threat of a new world order, accompanied by metallic-raw music.
Yelled at as a spectators we are asked to explore thought rooms and possibilities of different futures –
What if in supposedly individually experienced mental and physical wounds lies the collective energy for resistance?
What if we squirt, dance, eat, whip away a society cramped in shame and norms? Or even abolish it?
What if the anger of all fighters, who live in existing and past patriarchal structures, who had to endure them, who suffered from them or have come to death by them, what if that anger became an overwhelming, transforming energy turning us into freed, unadjusted and loud people, ready for a positive change? Then we fight for uncompromised being. For love freed from shame. For life as it could be. Alive orgiastically.
Fasten your seat belts on this horny ride through Wild-Wild-Witch-Clity-City. And: CUM AS YOU ARE.”
FLOWER
“Matt Lambert Soundtrack by Pansy Division Produced in Association with Helix”, United States, 2017, 17′, VOEN st EN
Starring Sean Ford, Lane Rodger and Joey Mills, we get lost in the eroticsim of suburban boredom and summer flings.
Established with the purpose of reducing the stigma around pornography and acknowledging its significant role in the history of cinema, the Brussels Porn Film Festival stands as Belgium’s first festival dedicated to alternative pornography. As the most widely consumed and produced audiovisual genre in the world, pornography exists simultaneously in plain view and concealed behind… Continue reading Blow my candle: BPFF’s best of
