The message is clear, that there is growing demand for explicit sex that empowers individuals to make their own decisions and choices free of social stigma.

While filmmakers have used the cinema to explore subject of sex for many decades, the last few years have seen a breakthrough in terms of explicitness. Catherine Breillat's "Romance", Virginie Despentes's "Baise-moi", Michael Winterbottom's "9 Songs", Todd Verow's "Anonymous" and Patrice Chéreau's "Intimacy" are a few of many films in which serious art-house filmmakers have pushed the boundaries of what can be shown as well as filmmakers like Bruce LaBruce, Kris Kramski, Maria Beatty and Wash Westmoreland have pushed the boundaries in pornoland to explore narrative structures within a commercial porn setting.

Is there still a paradox existing where we are encouraged to express ourselves freely, except when it comes to sex? The 1st PORNfilmfestivalBERLIN will challenge this paradox, giving permission to revel in the experience of clever, from all over the World, sexual fantasy.

The heritage of the 1970s "Last Tango in Paris", "Deep Throat", "Emmanuelle" and Oswalt Kolle resonates with us still today yet the cultural landscape has not shifted significantly in forty years. Still we do remember the "PorNo" campaign by our beloved Alice Schwarzer and Andrea Dworkin, but there is an appetite for accessible erotica and sexual explicit images that is no longer limited to the top shelf.

It's about time that pornography becomes actually stimulating, actually erotic and actually sexy, rather than enjoyable and erotic only in theory, unwatchable in reality. The filmmakers, photographers and artists involved in PORNfilmfestivalBERLIN have been exploring sex through their work for years and the fact that they have been invited to be with PORNfilmfestivalBERLIN gives you the experience to participate in a universe that seems so fabulously, tantalizingly exciting.

PORNfilmfestivalBERLIN will showcase the most innovative, risk-taking visionaries from film, photography, performance, music, the art scene, pornoland and even porn karaoke to challenge the genre of erotic film. All works shown form a collection of uncensored responses to the social and aesthetic questions of how we represent ourselves as sexual beings. The curation of diverse talent ensures a wide spectrum of interests and points of view.

PORNfilmfestivalBERLIN seeks to harness these developing attitudes and trends by inviting artists, photographers and filmmakers whose work invokes sex, curiosity, desire, fantasy and satisfaction in it's own right. So be part of this adventure and submit your films and other works to create Entertainment for the reasonable Adult.

Das klingt in der Tat mehr als interessant, schon alleine weil Maria Beatty in der Sektion "Spotlight" vorgestellt wird, deren sado-masochistische, zuweilen surreale Anordnungen ich in der Tat für hervorragende Meisterwerke eines sensualistischen , experimentellen Kinos halte. Weiterhin zeigt eine Art Retrospektive in Zusammenarbeit mit den Niederländischen Filmmuseum und dem Holland Filmfestival Beiträge des Landes zum Genre aus den frühen 70ern, die ich für mit die interessanteste Phase ambitionierter Pornographie halte.

In diesem Sinne: Claim back pornography from the vicious industry! [via]

(PS, due to the subject of this posting: Sowohl altherrige Lüsternheiten in sexistischer Fickfleisch-Diktion als auch moralinsaure Erschrecktheiten im Gewand empörter bis selbstgerechter Predigten werden aus den Kommentaren ohne weiteren meinerseits gelöscht. Get a life!)

toll, und was soll ich dann jetzt noch kommentieren? ;-)