WRITTEN IN THE BODY II | 14:00 | Filmhuis Cavia
All bodies bear the mark of a unique history and form the ground for past and future battles. The films in this threefold selection tell intimate stories, burning, dissident and unabashedly real. Often (auto)biographical, sometimes fictionalised or abstracted into the pure language of film, these shorts will take you to some of the hidden territories of sexuality. This second selection of Written in the Body opens with AUTOAGGRESSION, an extraordinary and captivating depiction of HIV and the struggle to overcome stigma, followed by SCARS and PostBulímika, which defy the definition of sick bodies. Blind Date 2.0 allows us to sneak into someone's bedroom during a first date and ANALysis takes us into the interstices of memory. The block closes with After Matter Comes Energy, a beautiful portrait of intimacy and queer euphoria.
AUTOAGGRESSION, Martin Willibald Meisl, 2021, Austria, 27'
Blind Date 2.0, Jan Soldat, 2022, Austria, 7'
SCARS, SCARS Collective, 2023, Germany, 6'
PostBulímika, Pau Devolar Van Dragen & Lola Pistola, 2022, Spain, 10'
ANALysis, Cieplechović, 2023, Poland, 8'
AFTER MATTER COMES ENERGY, Nour Beetch & Nicky Lapierre, 2021, Belgium, 18'
Total duration: 76'
PILLOW TALK WITH STRANGERS | 16:00 | Filmhuis Cavia
Polly Barton’s new book Porn: An Oral History (Fitzcarraldo 2023) is a series of frank interviews between Polly and various friends and acquaintances, discussing how they feel about porn – personally, ethically, politically. Come join Polly and the Supernormal collective as we take the book live: we’ll be talking about writing porn, watching porn, making porn and all the feelings in between.
Polly Barton is a writer and Japanese translator based in Bristol in the UK, and the author of Porn: An Oral History.
Supernormal is a queer feminist literary collective based in Amsterdam.
Total duration: 90'
Free entrance
DECOLONIZING OUR BODIES OUR WORLDS | 18:00 | Filmhuis Cavia
Colonialism takes place in our bodies and the lands which we and our ancestors inhabit. This block of films and a talk propose ways in which the bodies and sexuality become tools for freedom, tools for tearing down patriarchal and heteronormative constraints that colonialism imposes on the world. Through historical analysis and present-day perspectives, these films and talks expose the ongoing impact of oppressive forces and offer strategies for resistance. In this block, cities, monuments, churches and ruins are eroticised and re-appropriated through bodies and sex.
Talk: Cruising the Ruins of a Colonial City: Public Sex in Twentieth Century Lima by Diego Galdo-González
Lima, the capital of Peru, hosted a vibrant queer or maricón scene throughout the twentieth century. From sixteenth-century Spanish plazas and rooftops to republican avenues and promenades, its sexual scene unfolded across major sites in the city. These spaces were not explicitly marked as maricón sites, nor were the men whom the maricones lusted for labelled as maricones for their same-sex sexual pursuits. Diego Galdo-González’ presentation addresses questions of public sex, space, and history from the ruins of colonial Lima—a city where any space and any man harboured the potential for queer pleasure. Diego’s talk will be illustrated with videos of the performances from Javier Temple (1991).
Diego Galdo-González is a Junior Lecturer in Latin American and Global Studies at the Center for Latin American Research and Documentation of the University of Amsterdam, CEDLA. He has worked as a coordinator for the Amsterdam Research Centre for Gender & Sexuality and as a junior lecturer for the department of Sociology at the University of Amsterdam. His research interests lie at the intersection of sexual history, sexual cultures, and urban studies in Peru. His RM thesis aimed to trace the history of marica and queer pleasure in Lima between the 1950s and 1980s. He has published articles in GLQ: A Journal of Gay and Lesbian Studies and Argumentos, the journal of the Instituto de Estudios Peruanos.
5 min break
Enter the War, AntiGonna, 2017, Ukraine, 4’
Fuck the Fascism: The Crossroad of Two Worlds, Maria Basura, 2019, Chile & Spain, 10’
Sarx, Viola V, 2023, Macedonia, 2’
El día que la galaxia vulvosa casi pierde sus orgasmos, Al Borde producciones, 2023, Mexico, Colombia, 10’*
Indómito Deseo, Diego Argote, 2022, Chile, 4’
Lost in Freedom, AntiGonna, 2022, Ukraine, 8’
*Programmed with the support of Al Borde, International Transfeminist Film Festival https://festicine.mujeresalborde.org
Total duration: 85’
BE WATER MY LOVE | 17:30 | De Uitkijk
We are all bodies of water. We float like jellyfish, swim like turtles, mate in between reefs of coral, and lie on wet mosses that wrap around rocks, and fruiting spores of fungus on tree barks. We self-fertilise and are always in transition while crawling through swamps. We lust, flow, squirt, vaporise, clash and spoil. In this selection, we imagine a mutual and sustainable relationship with our planet through artistic experimentation.
Be formless. Be shapeless. Be water my love.
Prends-Moi Dans Les Bois / Take Me In The Woods, Bande James Bond, 2022, Belgium, 4'
The pathway to the goats, Marta Orlando & Clémentine Roy, 2023, France & Italy, 9’
This is where we (cum)post from, Buzia(Nasty Organic), Szymon Tur & Ernest Borowski, 2023, Poland, 6’
Goudou Auto, Oil Productions, 2022, Switzerland, 10’
Naked Snail, Geun-yeoung Kang, 2023, Netherlands, 6’
OCTOPUSS, Oil Productions, 2022, Switzerland, 10’
Archiving Men, Ryu Ill-don, 2022, South Korea, 21’
Total duration: 66'
queer.red presents! DOWN & DIRTY DIY SCREENING: QUEER SEX WORKER PORN | 20:00 | Filmhuis Cavia
Raunchy. Hot. Political. DIY. What happens when sex workers come together for a month-long workshop to produce queer porn? Down & Dirty DIY Porn Workshop was a whore-y fantasy sparked by this very question. Dreamed up by queer sex workers Mercy and Vivi and sponsored by queer.red, Down & Dirty DIY invited queer sex workers to a peer-to-peer porn skill share that engaged the expertise of whores across the industry, bridged gaps in the sex worker community, and made queer fantasies come to life! Who better than other queer sex workers to conjure up hot, panty-dripping scenes together, right? So, buckle up loves, you‘re in for a ride. The screening will preview the films made in the workshop and host a number of other treats for your viewing pleasure!
45-60’of short films | English | International
Followed by 30’ of Q&A & a 10-15’ performance
Total duration: 105'
queer.red is a queer feminist collective that organises film and art events with the aim to destigmatise sex work.
NEKROMANTIK | 22:00 | Filmhuis Cavia
Right at the intersection of fear and arousal, of death and ecstasy: Nekromantik is all about forbidden fantasies. As a tribute to the 1987 trash classic with the same name, this selection brings together the vampire chic of La Petite Mort and Ghost Song with the psychological horror of Family Life and You'll Be Sorry. Certainly not to everyone's taste but hard to look away once you start watching, these films shake up good morals. Gothic, kinky and camp, Nekromantik is an alleyway for your darkest desires.
La Petite Mort, Vespéral, 2023, France & Canada, 14'
Family Life, AntiGonna, 2021, Ukraine, 7'
G-Porn, AntiGonna, 2018, Ukraine, 6'
Period Chaos 666, Nour Beetch & Nicky Lapierre, 2023, Belgium, 7'
Playground, Ben Berlin, 2022, Germany, 17'
You'll Be Sorry, Maryann Peony, 2023, Germany, 13’
GRINDHOUSE PUSSYCAT, Alexandre Medeiros, 2023, Brazil, 12'
Ghost Song, RTALIN & JorgeTheObscene, 2023, Germany, 3'
Total duration: 79'
GO FUCK YOURSELF | 22:00 | De Uitkijk
It’s a cliché for a good reason: before we’re able to love another, we need to learn how to love ourselves. Who ever taught us that self-indulgence is wrong? Once you dive deep into yourself, you might discover what makes your heart pound stronger, what makes you feel loved and cared for. Get inspired by these shorts about shamelessly enjoying one’s own company. There are so many ways! This is your playground, nobody is watching. Allow that dirty mind and beautiful body of yours to conspire and become an infinite source of pleasure and love. Be your own babe and end up shining for everyone to see.
Anxiety, Lola Pistola, 2023, Spain, 5’
Sama Się Kocham / My Self Love, Marta Młot, 2023, Poland, 13’
Narciso, Hedonistas, 2022, Argentina, 6’
Stranger in Paradise, Nat Portnoy, 2023, Netherlands, 7’
A Fantastic Technique, Sakura Ardila Ortiz, 2022, Colombia, 10’
Turkish Cum, Yavuz Kurtulmus, Turkey/Austria, 2023, 6’
Better than Clean, Torri Lisek, 2020, Germany, 11’
SEXHIBITIONISM, JorgeTheObscene, 2021, Germany, 14’
Baby, Manon Praline & Evie Snax, 2018, Germany & USA, 8’
Total duration: 80'
DIY PORN ZINE workshop | 13:00 - 15:00 | PIC
Are you tired of not seeing porn that reflects your own fantasies and desires? In this workshop you get to make these fantasies, desires and perversions come alive! With workshop facilitation by zine-makers Cat and Jack, this collective DIY zine will be structured after old school porn magazines. But the content will be as weird, queer and kinky as you, the participant, would like it to be. Materials to cut and photocopy from will be provided. Please feel free to also bring your own material in the form of photos, text and visuals to use or share. Cat (she/her) is a retired stripper, zine-maker and illustrator that wants to explore the seedy alleys of their sexuality through art. Jack P (he/him/他) loves bringing dirty minds together to create and collaborate through making DIY queer porn, theatre and zines.
Max: 15 participants
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BURLESQUE FOR ALL GENDERS workshop | 15:00 - 17:00 | Clifford Studios
In this workshop, we will explore what burlesque looks and feels like for people of all genders. What we will cover:
- quick history of burlesque and in particular gender-play and the presence of male, trans- and non-binary bodies in this art form
- warm up with simple but fun moves
- learn the basis of burlesque tease and practise how this could look when interpreted differently
- practice until you find what feels good for your body
All the moves can be modified to suit you and no dance experience is required. This is not a cross-dressing or drag workshop, but a movement workshop about finding sexy, empowering moves that work for you just as you are.
Please wear clothes that you feel comfortable in and that give you freedom of movement. Bring one item with sleeves and a front opening, this could be a bathrobe, a jacket, a button down shirt, a cardigan, anything that suits your mood and is easy to remove. This will be the only element of clothing we will remove in class. Shoes are not necessary.
Bustie La Tish is a burlesque performer from Amsterdam who has performed across Europe. Bustie is the founder and co-producer of the inclusive and activist shows PUSSY GRABS BACK! and GOSH! She also runs the Amsterdam chapter of the Smut Slam, a community storytelling evening all about sex.
Max: 20 participants
Book here
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