Thursday 15 january:
Kriterion1:
20:00 hrs: Tony Comstock
22:00 hrs: Arts on Erotica
Kriterion2:
20:15 hrs: Dick Ho + Wrangler
22:15 hrs: Swingers
Friday 16 january:
Kriterion1:
18:00 hrs: Born in a barn + Susan for now
20:00 hrs: Maria Beatty 1
22:00 hrs: Kinky toons
Kriterion2:
18:15 hrs: Monas + Claudette
20:15 hrs: Afrodite superstar
22:15 hrs: Anna Span + Cafe Flesh
Kriterion3:
16:00 hrs: panel: Sexual politics for dummies
Saturday 17 january:
Kriterion1:
16:00 hrs: Three examples of myself as queen + Martha’s sex tape
18:00 hrs: Loving work + Liberty in restraint
20:00 hrs: Female twist collection
22:00 hrs: Dirty mirth collection
00:00 hrs: All night erotica extravaganza
Kriterion2:
16:15 hrs: Guys and dolls + Japanese sex brain
18:15 hrs: My art school summer
20:15 hrs: Llik your idols
22:15 hrs: X Clips & naughty beats
Kriterion3:
16:00 hrs: panel: Positive pornofication: Women strike back
Sunday 18 january:
Kriterion1:
16:00 hrs: Who’s afraid of Kathy Acker
18:00 hrs: Champion + Queerotica
20:00 hrs: Maria Beatty 2
22:00 hrs: Tony Comstock 2 + Explicit gay program
Kriterion2:
16:15 hrs: Sexy + Petals
18:15 hrs: Cinekink’s kinky bits
20:15 hrs: Pervert!
22:15 hrs: Betty Page dark angel
Kriterion3:
16:00 hrs: panel: How to be a 'real man' in porn
Parties:
Friday:
Stubnitz:
23:00-05:00 hrs: Rated X afterparty
Saturday:
Kriterion:
24:00 – 05:00 Lecherous Encounters party
Sunday:
Kriterion foyer:
16:00–19:00 hrs: Sunday Afternoon Fetish Fantasy Cocktail Lounge
All days in Kriterion foyer:
Sexy art gallery
Miss T’s bonus
In der grenze des fruchtlandes
40 is the new 14
neo fetish posture
Pornography: A musical
Indelible
70s and 80s erotic magazines
All days in Red Stamp Gallery:
Bacchanale
Maria Beatty’s The black Glove
Rated X panels
FEATURES:
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Thursday 15/01 – K1 – 20.00
DIRECTOR’S FOCUS: COMSTOCK FILMS
Dir. Tony Comstock
USA – 2007/2008 – 53 min + 56 min
www.comstockfilms.com
Documentary - Explicit
Rated X presents a special Director’s Focus on Comstock Films (New York, USA.)
These genre-crossing explicit erotic documentaries represent a genuinely new vision of couples' sexuality. This groundbreaking and award-winning line showcases real-life lovers having real sex.
MATT AND KHYM: BETTER THAN EVER
World premiere
Matt and Khym fell in love, raised children together, and still can’t keep their hands off each other. In this blend of documentary and explicit sex, Matt and Khym let us see firsthand the explosive chemistry between them, and share their ideas for why sex is so important to their marriage.
BILL AND DESIREE: LOVE IS TIMELESS
World premiere
It’s rare to see a sex film addressing older people’s sexuality without fetishizing it. Bill and Desiree's story starts in the second half of life: a chance meeting, a powerful attraction, a carnal connection, and a deep, sensual love.
Thursday 15/01 – K1 – 22.00
ARTS ON EROTICA
Various directors
Various countries – 2006 / 2008 – 80 min
Erotic - Explicit
Gorgeous, stylized, unusual fiction and art-based shorts addressing sexual themes with a unique visual style. Includes a brand new voyeuristic short from Italian erotic film icon Tinto Brass, Sean Conway’s poignant lovestory “Alex And Her Arse Truck,” Eva Midgley’s decadent romp “Honey & Bunny,” and Martin Jalfen and Javier Lourenço’s fantastical knitted-doll fairytale “The Blindness Of The Woods”.
ARTS ON EROTICA
UNDRESSING MY MOTHER
Dir. Ken Wardrop
Ireland — 2004 — 6 min
An older widow’s touchingly poetic ode to her body, her husband, and the physical love she shared with him.
ALEX AND HER ARSE TRUCK
Dir. Sean Conway
UK — 2008 — 15 min
A fucked up love story about scooter-riding Baby Shoes and his nymphomaniac girlfriend Alex.
SOULMATE
Dir. Chel White
USA -2000 -14 min
Premiere
Eerie, erotic, and touching, "Soulmate" is a complex study of alienation and sexual obsession. Told from the point-of-view of a 55-year old woman, it explores longing and objectification through the unconventional story of a landlady and her younger male tenant. A creepily evocative film about voyeurism in this-old-boarding-house whose proprietor gets ideas after one rummage too many through her tenant's stuff. The story sneaks up on you like a slow-building shiver
HONEY AND BUNNY
Dir. Eva Midgley
UK – 2004 - 10 min
Premiere
Honey and Bunny embark on an exciting adventure. In their makeshift boudoir, they set out to create their own naughty movie. Who knew plums could be so delicious?
KICK THE COCK
Dir. Tinto Brass
Italy - 2008 - 15 mim
Premiere
A lushious waitress plays a sexy game with cakes, eggplants and cucumbers while her boss (Brass himself) watches her.. The latest gorgeous voyeuristic short from Italian erotic film icon Tinto Brass.
Aprop
Dir. Aitor Echeverria
Spain — 2007 — 6 min
Premiere
Sleep becomes interrupted by the familiar touch of another body. A finger brushes across a back as a sigh sends the invitation for play. When viewed closely, everyday body movements are an extraordinary dance.
THE BLINDNESS OF THE WOODS
Dir. Martin Jalfen and Javier Lourenço
USA/Peru/Argentina – 2008 – 12 min
From Amautalab a multi-disciplinary creative studio, this gorgeously bizarre tale combines the naive simplicity of fairy tales with Nordic erotic movies from the 70's. The sweet pornographic story of a blind artist, a curt lumberjack, and a jealous bear is told entirely through knitted puppets.
Thursday 15/01 – K2 – 20.15
DICK HO: ASIAN MALE PORNSTAR
Premiere
Dir. Jeffrey Lei
USA – 2005 – 31 min
Documentary / Vintage
Semi-serious investigation of the “mythical” Dick Ho, a mysterious Asian male porn actor who supposedly existed during the 1970s/80s golden age of porn.
Includes alleged film footage and testimonials from porn veterans: Annie Sprinkle, Kay Parker, Juliet Anderson, Mika Tan, and Sharon Mitchell.
WRANGLER – ANATOMY OF AN ICON
Dir. Jeffrey Schwarz
USA – 2008 – 85 min
Gay / Documentary / Vintage
From the dawn of the sexual revolution comes the outrageous true story of 1970s gay porn icon Jack Wrangler, who became a major brand name in adult entertainment, as well as a hero to the newly liberated gay population. At his ease in the role of rough, beer drinking drifter who dug guys in a macho kind of way, Jack made some of the era's most memorable films.
Not content to be a big fish in a small pond, he surprisingly decided to cross over into the more lucrative straight porn world where he became an even bigger success and a positive source of inspiration to anyone who’s ever dreamt to re-invent himself.
Thursday 15/01 – K2 – 22.15
SWINGERS
Dir. Stephan Brenninkmeijer
Netherlands – 2002 - 93 min
Erotic
A psychological portrait of relationships and sexual desire. Diana and her husband Julian decide to try swinging with another couple for the first time. They invite Alex and Timo over to their house for a weekend-long experiment. Alex and Timo are confident swingers, especially gorgeous Alex, whose ravishing sexiness intimidates quiet Diana. And Timo seems strangely disinterested. But once night falls and their sexual exploration begins, we discover that all is not as it seems. Diana may have more quiet strength in her than she knows.
www.brennfilm.com
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Friday 16/10 – K1 – 20.00
MARIA BEATTY SELECTED RETRO (Part 1)
USA – 1995 / 2000 - 90 min
www.bleuproductions.com
Lesbian / Fetish / Explicit
Rated X is proud to present a selected retrospective of Maria Beatty’s ground-breaking fetish and BDSM Erotica. Beatty’s landmark fetish world is one of lush beauty, sheer sensuality and breathtaking sexuality that pushes borders and continuously sets new standards in erotic filmmaking.
Maria Beatty will be present to introduce her work and meet the audience after the screenings.
LET THE PUNISHMENT FIT THE CHILD
Beautiful young Katie emerges from her gilded cage to submit to the slow and deliberate attentions of her ravishing mistress. With mesmerizing score composed by Malcolm McLaren.
BELLE DE NATURE
A psychological and aesthetically challenging exploration of female sexuality. Music by John Zorn.
LADIES OF THE NIGHT
Night is falling. A frightened schoolgirl makes her way along the deserted cobbled street, glancing fearfully around her. She is being pursued, but by whom, or what? Swept away, she awakens in an eerie, candlelit mansion..
THE ELEGANT SPANKING
This 'post-modern romantic subversion' shows fetish, fantasy and role-playing in a masquerade of dominance and submission performed in the spirit of decadence, sexual freedom and spiritual abandonment. Music by John Zorn.
Friday 16/01 – K1 – 22.00
KINKY TOONS
Various directors
Various countries – 2002 / 2008 – 90 min
Animation / Erotic
Explicit sex talks from a girl’s point of view; butlers with very special household tasks; mythological love stories in futuristic settings; man-machine fetish fusions and the eroticism of flowers.
This naughty international selection of cheeky, romantic and experimental shorts brings to the screen a number of recent animated productions (most premiering in The Netherlands) with sex and sexuality as two of the central elements.
Including works of Signe Baumane, Yanko Del Pino, Johan Klungel, Tsubasa and many more.
Friday 16/01 – K1 – 18.00
BORN IN A BARN
Premiere
Dir. Elizabeth Elson
Feature – USA – 2004 –50 min
Documentary / Fetish
An intimate and occasionally humorous documentary peeking into the extraordinary erotic lives of four seemingly ordinary people, BORN IN A BARN takes us deep into the world of ponyplay, a fetish in which enthusiasts role-play as human ponies and handlers. Revealing the complex motives that drive each character to pursue this unusual passion and following them as they each confront the questions that being an erotic equine present, BORN IN A BARN is a film about finding an identity in the pursuit of an unconventional desire.
SUSAN FOR NOW
Premiere
Dir. Robin Franzi
USA – 2007 – 54 min
www.susanfornow.com
Documentary / Fetish
A first person account of a woman who responds to a ten year celibacy and the empty nest syndrome by reclaiming her sexual freedom, SUSAN FOR NOW follows her journey into the underground world of the sex positive community in Seattle in an educational and informative expose of today's shifting social conscience. A revealing portrayal that offers a honest and non-sensationalistic exploration of the often misunderstood world of sadomasochism.
Friday 16/01 – K2 – 18.15
MONAS
Premiere
Dir. Arturo Mestanza
Brazil – 2007 – 26 min
Documentary - Educational
An up, close and personal short documentary about the life of a group of Brazilian transgenders and travestites that stirs away from the usual clichés, focusing on how radical physical and sexual changes can affect personalities, relationships and finally dreams.
CLAUDETTE
Dir. Sylvie Cachin
Switzerland - 2007 -63 min
Documentary - Educational
Claudette is an enthusiastic 60-something who is a prostitute and proud of it. Born a hermaphrodite, married and the granddad of a happy family, she lives her ambivalent life with panache. At an age when she should be hanging up her garter, Claudette embarks on a public campaign to defend the rights of prostitutes, risking discovery of the truth about her occupation by her own family and friends. This multifaceted portrait offers food for thought on the nature of gender identity, sexuality, love and individual freedom.
Friday 16/01 – K2 – 20.15
AFRODITE SUPERSTAR
Premiere
Dir. Venus Hottentot
USA – 2007 - 70 min
Explicit
This award-winning hip-hop Cinderella story provides fresh and unexpected content with a meaningful story that is aimed at countering the “niggas & ho’s” stereotypes and reclaiming the sexual voice and expression of women of colour.
The first ethnically diverse feature to come out under Femme Chocolat, a new division of Candida Royalle’s internationally acclaimed Femme Productions, AFRODITE SUPERSTAR is directed by prized filmmaker Abiola Abrams (under the name Venus Hottentot) and has been endorsed by American Association of Sexual Educators, Counselors and Therapists.
Friday 16/01 – K2 – 22.15
SCHOOL OF GYNAECOLOGY (UNIFORM BEHAVIOUR)
World Premiere
Dir. Anna Span
UK – 2003 - 23 min
http://annaspansdiary.com
Explicit
Hot young male medical students cautiously practice their craft.
With Span’s signature blend of English humor, improvisation, and hardcore sex.
CAFÉ FLESH
Dir. Rinse Dream (Stephen Sayadian)
USA – 1982 – 80 min
www.hustlereurope.eu / www.myspace.com/hustlereurope
Explicit
Surrealistic sci-fi meets experimental porn in one of the most unusual erotic creations ever conceived.
Café Flesh is a post-nuclear nightclub where "sex positives" are forced to perform sex acts for the benefit of the "sex negatives", the 99% of the remaining population, made impotent and repulsive to sex by the radiations.
Part explicit porno, part performance art, part grade-Z science fiction, CAFÉ FLESH remains a unique film: a burning critic of voyeurism and sexual frustration from an exhibitionist perspective.
SCHWARTZWALD (screened at the Stubnitz Rated X afterparty)
Dir: Richard Kimmel
USA — 2007 — 39 min
Billed as “The Movie You Can Dance To,” this film is a rich, modern tapestry combining elements of Druidic ritual with the passionate, leather-clad goings-on that transpire at NYC's annual Black Party. SCHWARTZWALD follows the travails of the Black Prince as he is pursued through the woods and kidnapped by the nefarious underlings of the conniving Black Queen. Directed by underground film director Richard Kimmel and starring Buck Angel, the world famous female-to-male transsexual porn star, along with a cast of literal thousands, this is a sumptuous visual feast.
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Saturday 17/01 – K1 – 22.00
!!!ALL NITE EROTICA EXTRAVAGANZA!!!
An insane mish-mash of lost and found sexploitation footage, horny zombies, porn musicals and 70’s XXX trailers a go-go!
This special late night program is hot, over-the-top and totally FREE!
Supported by Synapse Films (www.synapse-films.com)
Saturday 17/01 – K1 – 16.00
THREE EXAMPLES OF MYSELF AS QUEEN
Dir. Anna Biller
USA – 1994 – 26 min
www.lifeofastar.com
Sexploitation / Vintage
From Anna Biller, director of the cult sexploitation gem VIVA, comes these series of sensual musical vignettes. A hilarious take on the old Hollywood standards of female sexuality and pleasure from a feminist point of view and in full Billerama fashion: off-beat, colourful and absolutely enchanting!
MARTA’S SEX TAPE
Premiere
Dir. Anthony Rivero Stabley
Mexico – 2007 – 78 min
www.martasextape.com
Erotic
Pop Art meets erotic comedy in this award-winning highly-stylized and visually astonishing Mexican gem. Art student Marta has a problem, she needs to find $ 10000 to return a loan but she’s flat broke.
After stumbling across the adult video The Seductress of Monte Cristo VI, Marta decides to put her artistic skills to use by directing her own porn film. Now she only needs to find a producer and some actors to fulfill her vision, that shouldn’t be that difficult, right..?
Saturday 17/01 – K1 – 18.00
LOVING WORK
Dir. Vivian Wenli Lin
The Netherlands – 2008 -15 min
www.vivianwenlilin.com
Documentary / Fetish
Juggling work, sex, and love can become quite tricky when you are a couple working together in the fetish industry. After the studio lights are turned off, how much of their work life carries over into their love life? How do they keep the sparks in their own relationship alive as they titillate and stimulate other people’s fantasies?
LIBERTY IN RESTRAINT
Premiere
Dir. Michael Ney
Australia – 2005 – 90 min
www.libertyinrestraint.com
Documentary / Fetish
Described by Annie Sprinkle as “simply the best documentary on BDSM ever produced”, LIBERTY IN RESTRAINT follows the personal exploration of the fetish scene and lifestyle through the artistic research of renowned Australian fetish photographer Noel Graydon.
A marvelously shot, insightful and inspiring cutting-edge documentary.
Saturday 17/01 – K1 – 20.00
FEMALE TWIST COLLECTION
Various directors
Various countries – 2007/2008 - 75 min
Explicit
From piquant fiction to arty triple-X, these arousing shorts represent a uniquely female slant on sexuality. Featuring Jennifer Lyon Bell’s explicit erotic drama “Matinée”, Erika Lust’s feminist docu-porn “Barcelona Sex Project”, and bondage goddess Madison Young’s self-directed poetic hardcore “Writers & Rockstars”.
MATINEE
Dir. Jennifer Lyon Bell
Netherlands — 2009 –34 min
World Premiere
Stage actors Mariah and Daniel play lovers every night, but their onstage romance lacks spark. One slow afternoon, they discover that today’s matinée performance will make or break both their careers. Daniel wants to make big changes, and Mariah starts to wonder: are Daniel’s suggestions reasonable? Or has he lost track of the boundary between actor and character? Rushed to the stage, in front of a live audience, they must figure it out together.
BARCELONA SEX PROJECT/DAVID
Dir. Erika Lust
Spain — 2008 — 17 min
Each vignette of the feminist adult film Barcelona Sex Project features a sexual portrait of one individual. Lust’s project is based on her conviction that women want to know what someone is like on a personal level before they can connect with that person on a sexual level. In this erotic documentary, David —who just wants to relax by the sea with his dog — talks about his life, his sex life, and then shows his sexual self.
PASSION FOR FOOTBALL
Dir. Rut Suso and Maria Pavón
Spain — 2006 — 12 min
Addicted to his radio matches, a conventional fellow is too distracted to notice that his girlfriend is developing new passions of her own.
I FEEL MYSELF (CLIP)
Dir. ifeelmyself.com
Australia — 2008 — 10 min
Revolutionary website IFeelMyself.com dedicates itself to presenting real female orgasm in a way that does justice to its beauty and idiosyncrasy. To that end, participants are left alone with fixed cameras so that they can find their own rhythm.
WRITERS & ROCKSTARS
Dir. Madison Young
USA — 2008 — 10 min
Premiere
Young poetess (and internationally famous bondage model) Madison Young divulges her steamy sexual experiences with hot rock stars, delving into an authentically hot light-BDSM hardcore scene with Daniel.
Saturday 17/01 – K1 – 22.00
DIRTY MIRTH COLLECTION
Various directors
Various countries – 2006/2008 - 75 min
Explicit
Quirky, vaudevillian, wry, or silly – this diverse palette of shorts offers a humorous take on sex. Featuring sex blogger Audacia Ray’s sly documentary/mockumentary “Dacia’s Love Machine,” Kirby Fergusen’s sweet goofy lovestory “Polly Wally”, and T. Arthur Cottam’s children’s-show parody “Dirty Words: The Letter C”.
DACIA’S LOVE MACHINE
Dir. Audacia Ray and Rob Daly
USA –2008 -- 25 min
Premiere
Sex blogger/writer Audacia Ray’s steathily witty short film details her real-life attempt to rid her apartment of the bulky “Love Machine” she’s been assigned to review. Bonus: Check out the star of the movie --Dacia’s actual Love Machine --exclusively on display at Rated X!
STICKY FINGERS
Dir. Douglas S. Jones
USA — 2003 — 18 min
A lighthearted comedy about a woman dismayed to find that her faithful boyfriend has been hoarding porn. With the help of their best friends, each of them mulls over the relationship between sex, porn, and love.
CUPCAKE
Dir. Em Sixteen and Malay Savage
USA — 2008 — 3 min
Premiere
A 50’s housewife feeds her son’s young soccer friends with luscious chocolate cupcakes, but mom is hungry too.
POLLY WALLY
Dir. Kirby Fergusen
Short –USA –2005 -- 4 min
European Premiere
The sweet goofy story of a polyamorous guy searching for his non-monogamous queen.
PROTECTING AND MAINTAINING YOUR HETEROSEXUAL HOUSE OF CARDS
Dir. Kirby Ferguson
USA –2007 -- 2 min
World Premiere
A tongue-in-cheek guide to protecting your hetero masculinity.
TWEAK
Dir. Vena Virago
USA — 2002 — 5 min
International Premiere
A strange and amusing power play between a frustrated party attendee and the woman running the camera. Is she trying to help him ejaculate, or keeping him from ejaculating?
DIRTY WORDS: THE LETTER C
Dir. T. Arthur Cottam
USA — 2008 — 4min
Premiere
Just like in the children’s television show, we learn about the alphabet. These words are a bit different, however.
PHILLY DOMINATES VEGETABLES
Dir. Ned Ambler
USA — 2008 — 3 min
Underground film star Philly shows the vegetables who’s boss.
HAPPY HORSE 5
Dir. Duro Toomato
Croatia/The Netherlands – 2006 – 2 min
From Cum2Cut, an independent Berlin DIY porn competition focusing on the activities of the international, independent and countercultural queer movement and presenting “a platform where artists, filmmakers, DJs, actors, hackers, excited minds and everyone interested can collaborate”. The year’s first-prize winner “Happy Horse 5” is a hardcore scene between a teddy bear and an uncooked chicken.
PORNOGRAPHIC APATHETIC
Dir. T. Arthur Cottam
USA – 2006 -- 6 min
The dialogue of a standard porn film turns starkly hilarious in this deadpan re-interpretation.
Saturday 17/01 – K2 – 16.15
GUYS AND DOLLS
Premiere
Dir. Nick Holt
UK – 2007 – 50 min
Documentary / Fetish
GUYS AND DOLLS portraits the inner world of different men who chose life-size dolls for sex as much as lifelong companionship.
A young man shares his home with his doll and disapproving mum and dad; a British man takes his doll out on day trips to the coast where she watches him hang- glide and two Americans live with multiple dolls, one of whom shares his eight synthetic lovers with his human girlfriend.
What pushes these men to give up most contacts with the other sex and to seek authentic affection in dolls?
SEX BRAIN MELODY / ON THE JAPANESE DOLL COMPLEX
Premiere
Dir. Katrien Jacobs
Hong Kong - 2008 - 19 min
Documentary
In this docudrama, the gifted doctor ‘Madame Remedy’ (Nam Kung) highlights Chinese people’s love and devotion for otherworldly Japanese figurines and libidinal animations. She points to a wide variety of cases where people seek the innocence and gender-fluidity of dolls: Kigurumi cosplayers, Adult Video movies, fans of Boy Love animations, and owners of Ball-Jointed Dolls.
Saturday 17/01 – K2 – 18.15
MY ART SCHOOL SUMMER
Premiere
Dir. David and Mary Sandberg
USA – 2007 – 90 min
Animation / Explicit
A beautifully hand-drawn, adults-only animated sex comedy created by animators David and Mary Sandberg of Out on a Limb Animation.
An art student in the midst of a personal crisis decides to spend her summer break in the university campus.
Lost in a galaxy of wannabe artists, stoners and horny professors can she really keep up with her purpose of temporarily quitting both serious relationships and casual sex..?
Saturday 17/01 – K2 – 20.15
LLIK YOUR IDOLS
Premiere
Dir. Angélique Bosio
France – 2007 -69 min
www.myspace.com/llikyouridols
Documentary / Explicit
An inside look at the taboo-trashing Cinema of Transgression and at its still influential artistic wave of sex, death and nihilism.
Under the iconoclastic banners of Cinema of Transgression and No Wave (Sonic Youth, The Swans, Lydia Lunch, The Butthole Surfers, Foetus, DNA), a bunch of “insolent kids” (including Richard Kern, Lydia Lunch, Joe Coleman and Nick Zedd) briefly became the new anti-heroes of a generation.
Scornful and flippant, their films and music violently attack conformity they see all around them, highlighting an erotically-charged and sardonic movement.
“If it’s not transgressive, it’s not underground. It has to be threatening the status quo by doing something surprising, not just imitating what’s been done before.” - Nick Zedd
Saturday 17/01 – K2 – 22.15
X CLIPS & NAUGHTY BEATS
Various directors
Various countries – 2007/2008 – 74 min
Explicit
A selection of cutting-edge sexy music films from around the world –from the smoothly sensual to the thumpingly raw. Including Émilie Jouvet’s bondage music video “Vicious,” Philippe Gosselin and Ronald Regina’s cheerful male strip act “The Window,” and French collective Panik Qulture’s “Pop Porn Party” – a musical guide to getting off with a mummy.
THE APPLE
Dir. Émilie Jouvet
France – 2008 –6 min
Queer French photographer/director Émilie Jouvet creates a vintage-look Garden of Eden with a delicious modern twist. Starring French writer and performance artist Wendy Delorme (of the international burlesque troupe Drag King Fem Show).
THE SQUEEZEBOX
Dir. Boyd Coyner
Netherlands – 2008 –4 min
World Premiere
The Squeeze Box follows a man with a certain musical condition. He hears accordion music during lovemaking which interferes with his most intimate moments.
POP PORN PARTY
Dir. Panik Qulture
France – 2006 – 4 min
A post-porn gem from the French collective Panik Qulture: A user’s guide to getting off with a mummy, all set to music.
DRUM BUM
Dir. Eva Midgley
USA – 2008 -- 2 min
World Premiere
Part of a collaboration with high-end erotic boutique Coco de Mer. Inspired by an “amazing African drum solo” at an Amadou and Miriam concert.
VICIOUS
Dir. Émilie Jouvet
France – 2008 –5 min
A bondage-themed music video starring sexy tattooed redhead Mz Sunday Luv, trying to sing with the director’s fingers playing in her luscious mouth.
THE BIG BLUE
Dir. Petra Joy
UK – 2005 -- 4 min
Beautifully shot images of weightless sensuality underwater. A fantasy of freedom of movement and self expression without boundaries.
FUCKING BITCH FUCKING SLUT
Dir. ReveRso
Germany — 2008 — 7 min
Premiere
A 80’s-inspired dirty music video, thumping to Dee Mee Tree’s hot electro beatbox track.
CLEAN LAUNDRY
Dir. Eva Midgley
Short –USA – 2008 -- 4 min
Erotic art
World Premiere
A laundry-room tryst in gorgeous style.
REAL LOVE
Dir. Ena Schnitzlbaumer
Germany – 2007 – 2 min
From Cum2Cut, an independent Berlin DIY porn competition focusing on the activities of the international, independent and countercultural queer movement and presenting “a platform where artists, filmmakers, DJs, actors, hackers, excited minds and everyone interested can collaborate”. This short shows how far fan worship can go with a little imagination, a naked doll, and a strap-on.
FOOTSIE
Dir. Eva Midgley
USA – 2006 – 5 min
International Premiere
Eva Midgley takes a close look at a pleasurable encounter between female foot and male member. “Footsie” is the Grand Prize winner of the 2006 Destricted short film contest judged by filmmaker/artist Larry Clark, and screened at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) in London.
THE WINDOW
Dir. Philippe Gosselin and Ronald Regina
USA – 2008 – 5 min
A voyeuristic view into three windows finds three bachelors showing the world what they’re made of. This explicitly orgasmic charmer breaks boundaries and brims with sheer goodwill.
MISS T’S TEASERAMA
Dir. Sietske Tjallingii
Netherlands — 2002 – 18 minutes
Burlesque-inspired vignettes of the divine Miss T tangling with unusual characters —many of them surreal fabric sculptures.
FILTHY FOOD
Dir. T. Arthur Cottam
USA –2006 -- 5 min
“Eat it. Lick it. Suck it. Swallow it. Relax, it's just food.” Starts simple, then gets dirtier and more hilarious every second. To the tune of “Pussy Puff”.
DO YOU TAKE IT IN THE ASS?
Dir. Kirby Ferguson
USA –2006 -- 2 min
European Premiere
Internationally acclaimed cabaret duo The Wet Spots lend their smooth vocal stylings to this hilarious music video posing an important question.
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Sunday 18/01 – K1 – 18.00
CHAMPION
International premiere
Dir. Shine Louise Houston
USA — 2008 — 81 min
Queer - Explicit
Acclaimed feminist queer porn director Shine Louise Houston weaves a tale of fucking and fighting that transcends the level of ordinary porn; it's more like an indie lesbian film that happens to include a lot of explicit sex. Real-life mixed martial artist Syd Blakovich plays a fighter on the cusp of the big time, struggling to keep her secret under wraps.
QUEEROTICA SHORTS
Various directors
Various countries – 2007/2008 – 24 min
Intensely explicit, these diverse films explore facets of lesbian/queer/trans sexuality from a range of angles: fiction, documentary, and alternative porn.
WANT
Dir. Loree Erickson
Canada — 2006 — 9 min
Premiere
A queer femmegimp activist and theorist weaves together sexually explicit images with everyday moments and scenes of the ableist world. It works to get people hot and poses an insightful, complex, honest, and sexy image of disability.
Rated X Preview! UNDERGROUND: FROM PARIS TO BERLIN
Dir. Émilie Jouvet
France – 2009 –15 min
World Premiere
French photographer/pornographer Émilie Jouvet, director of last year’s queer/trans Rated X porn favorite “One Night Stand/Red Fetish Bathroom,” brings us a unique Rated X prerelease preview of her brand-new queer film.
Sunday 18/01 – K1 – 20.00
MARIA BEATTY SELECTED RETRO (Part 2)
USA – 2008 – 90 min
www.bleuproductions.com
Lesbian / Fetish / Explicit
Rated X is proud to present a selected retrospective of Maria Beatty’s ground-breaking fetish and BDSM Erotica. Beatty’s landmark fetish world is one of lush beauty, sheer sensuality and breathtaking sexuality that pushes borders and continuously sets new standards in erotic filmmaking.
Maria Beatty will be present to introduce her work and meet the audience after the screenings.
POST APOCALYPTIC COWGIRLS
Premiere
After the Third World War and global warming have transformed the planet into a desert, what remains? Two post-apocalyptic cowgirls in leather and Stetsons! Their sex is a dripping wet oasis from the heat. Soundtrack by Lydia Lunch!
STRAP ON MOTEL
Premiere
LA, on the west coast, along a humid motorway enlightened by the red neon lights of a strip clubs.
London, gorgeous and wild brunette, arrives. Erotic dancer in a club, she remembers this particular night where she has been struck by her desire for another dancer, Dylan Ryan. Hallucinated flashbacks of their nights of fever at the clandestine and muggy Strap on Motel, haunt her.
Sunday 18/01 – K1- 22.00
DAMON AND HUNTER - DOING IT TOGETHER
European premiere
(DIRECTOR’S FOCUS: COMSTOCK FILMS)
Dir. Tony Comstock
USA – 2006 – 46 min
www.comstockfilms.com
Documentary – Gay – Explicit
This charming film has been censored in multiple countries. A real-life young gay couple talks about their courtship and relationship, then opens their bedroom to the camera. Like all Comstock films, DAMON AND HUNTER is hard to classify — it’s a documentary that incorporates explicit sexuality — and surprisingly affecting.
EXPLICIT GAY SHORTS COLLECTION
Various directors
Various countries – 2006/2008 – 26 min
Gay - Explicit
Erotic documentary, artfilm and beautiful hardcore – these carefully-selected films make up a palette of different expressions of gay male sexuality.
WINGS OF LOVE
Dir. Luc Notsnad and Bud Spencer
France — 2008 — 4 min
Premiere
A Cheesy / Romantic / Snuff / Zoophile / Porn / Movie.
HOTMEN COOLBOYZ (VIGNETTE)
Dir. Knud Vesterskov
Denmark — 2000 — 17 min
Premiere
This color-saturated hardcore extravaganza was produced by a subsidiary of Lars von Trier’s arthouse production company Zentropa. Directed by a
celebrated experimental filmmaker, this tale based in Greek mythology
incorporates explicit sex to create a visual paradise.
FACE FIRST
Dir. Todd Verow
USA – 2003 – 5 min
Premiere
Controversial filmmaker Todd Verow has assembled a collection of "face and dick" shots forwarded to him over the internet to produce a poignant commentary on gay male sexuality, intimacy, and the impact of the internet on both of these.
Sunday 18/01 – K1 – 16.00
WHO’S AFRAID OF KATHY ACKER?
Dir. Barbara Caspar
Austria/Germay – 2008 – 84 min
www.ackerfilm.com
Documentary - Educational
Called an outlaw writer by the New York Times, Acker was a contradictory figure. With her close-cropped hair, tattoos and piercings, she made SM and biting political satire part of her oeuvre.
Like a female Burroughs, Acker rewrote the world in her own image, blending fact & fiction, biography & dream imagery, hardcore sex & incisive political satire in a non-narrative cyber-punk style.
Her sexually explicit writing, which challenged assumptions of gender roles and sexuality, was banned in many countries. WHO’S AFRAID OF KATHY ACKER? creatively captures the untamed spirit of Acker's life, from her wild early years in New York City to her death from breast cancer.
Sunday 18/01 – K2 - 16.15
SEXY SERIES, EPISODES 1 AND 7
Dir. Menna Laura Meijer
The Netherlands — 2007 — 50 min
Documentary – Educational
Young people in the Netherlands of all sexual orientations open up about how they see sex and relationships. SEXY combines frankly honest and touching interviews with a fresh modern style incorporating brisk editing and pop music. Episode One centers on first love; Episode Seven explores the lives of gay and lesbian teens.
PETALS – JOURNEY INTO SELF DISCOVERY
Dir. Beck Peacock
Canada – 2008 - 48 min
Documentary - Educational
This remarkable documentary - 2008 winner of the Sexual Intelligence Award - examines the many unspoken beliefs and myths that affect women's sexual self-esteem. Photographer Nick Karras created the art book Petals – a series of black and white pictures of vulvas - with the aim of showing women the beauty of the their exposed sexuality.
The movie records the reactions of sex educators, art critics, female participants in the project, as well as the man/woman-in-the-street as they confront the mystery of womanhood. The varied range of exquisitely presented images inspires both an appreciation for newly discovered beauty and feelings of profound awe.
Sunday 18/01 – K2 - 18.15
CINEKINK’S KINKY BITS
Various directors
Various countries – 2006/2008 – 93 min
www.cinekink.com
Fetish - Erotic
Curated by CineKink co-founder and director, Lisa Vandever, this kinky collection of shorts features works that probe, prod and play with the dynamics of sexual power and release, control and submission. Assume the position!
About Cinekink:
Currently in its fifth season, CineKink is an annual film festival and national screening tour that celebrates and explores the wide diversity of sexuality. Presented by CineKink, an organization dedicated to the recognition and encouragement of sex-positive and kink-friendly depictions in film and television, works showcased by the festival range from documentary to drama, camp comedy to hot porn - and everything in between.
ANONYMITY
Dir. Julie Simone
USA - 2007 - 3 min
A play on society's masks and their role in sexuality.
COMING OUT SPANKO
Dir. Tanya Bezreh
USA – 2007 - 15 min
Keeping a video diary of her thoughts, a woman contemplates her entry into a world of kink and her place within it.
NAMAHA MAN
Dir. John Adams
USA – 2006 - 12 min
A clumsy waitress and an ineffectual hostess suffer the abuses of their boss, a demanding restaurateur. But then...
GUY101
Dir. Ian Gould
UK – 2005 - 8 min
A man hears a story about a hitchhiker from the other side of the Internet.
HITCHCOCKED
Dir. David Young
USA – 2006 - 8 min
A hot casual-sex encounter stirs up some surprising truths about love, life,
online-dating...and danger.
WHO'S THE TOP?
Dir. Jennie Livingston
USA- 2005 - 22 min
In this fantastical S/M musical comedy, one writer finds her true self by determining who's the bottom.
MARRIED WITH CHILDREN
Dir. Erika Lust
Spain – 2007 - 25 min
Frank and Rita have been married for eight years, have two small children and, by all appearances, are tired of their marriage and bored with each
other. What secrets are they hiding?
Sunday 18/01 – K2 - 20.15
PERVERT!
Premiere
Dir. Jonathan Yudis
Feature – USA – 2005 – 81 min
www.pervertthemovie.com
Sexploitation
From cult independent filmmaker Jonathan Yudis comes this orgiastic tribute to 70’s Grindhouse nudie horror flicks.
Degenerate sex, death and gore in this totally deranged homage to the cinema of Russ Meyer and John Waters.
A young man comes to spend the summer at the remote desert ranch of his father in hopes of repairing their estranged relationship only to find out that he’s become a psychotic madman..
Sunday 18/01 – K2 - 22.15
BETTIE PAGE – DARK ANGEL
Premiere
Dir. Nico B
USA – 2004 – 90 min
www.cultepics.com
Erotic / Vintage
The legendary Bettie Page was America's favorite pin-up model of the 1950s.
It was her association with fetish photographer and filmmaker Irving Klaw, however, that would change her life forever and establish the cult icon status she enjoys to this day.
Directed by underground cult director Nico B, BETTIE PAGE – DARK ANGEL recalls, in episodes, her last three years as a pin-up queen and faithfully recreates – in Klaw's original style and starring stunning Bettie Page’s lookalike Paige Richards – many of her now classic bondage film performances that were destroyed long ago.
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All days in the Kriterion Lounge
SPECIAL PRESENTATION: SEXY ART GALLERY.COM
SEXY ART GALLERY.COM mission is to advocate and encourage an openness and willingness to enjoy sexy art by way of developing a commercial bridge between artists and potential customers from around the world. SEXY ART GALLERY.COM focuses on representing both emerging and recognized artists, priding itself on exposing cutting-edge sexy art. SEXY ART GALLERY.COM exhibits, promotes and sells sexy art, encompassing a broad range of genres, namely, Fine art, Pop Surrealism, Fetishism, Erotica, Fantasy, Gothic art, Pin-up, Glamour, Street art and Kitsch.
For Rated X SEXY ART GALLERY.COM compiled a special video presentation of artworks from their collection.
PORNOGRAPHY: A MUSICAL
Denmark —1971 — 54 min
A series of erotic and explicit vintage films with verve and humor. With music by the jazz musicians Dexter Gordon and the Kenny Drews trio.
NEO FETISH POSTERS
Premiere
Dir. Manon des Gryeux
France — 2008 — 10 min
A fetish photographer who has an original way of exploring reality reinvents the world by changing it to her own fantasies.
AN DER GRENZE DES FRUCHTLANDES
Premiere
Dir. Benjamin von Bebber and Bastian Zimmermann
Germany — 2008 — 28 min
A sci-fi explicit film. The camera follows the female protagonist on her quest for absolute closeness which she seems to find only in the sexual act in a virtunal space. But what happens when our own boundaries dissolve?
INDELIBLE
Dir. Charles Lum
Short — USA — 2005 — 8 miM
A gory, queer mashup of Brian de Palma’s 1976 film “Carrie”.
Lum is an HIV-positive video artist.
MISS T’S BONUS
Dir. Sietske Tjallingii
The Netherlands — 3 mim
A love affair between a vintage-looking model and a soft sculpture penis.
CASE 1112: 40 IS THE NEW 14
European premiere
Dir. Margie Schnibbe/Vena Virago
USA - 2008 - 5 min
A contemporary autobiographical portrait of a compulsive and sentimental masturbator. Porn director Vena Virago, aka Los Angeles graphic/video artist Margie Schnibbe serves up a psychedelic feast of bunny rabbits and Psychopathia Sexualis.
From the archives:
An exposé of vintage 70s and 80s erotic magazines, highlighting one of the most widely published glamour models from the 80s, Jeanette Dyrkjaer and some of her Danish contemporaries. Plus: classic UK Page 3 models, American 70s busty stars and Dutch glamour models in a display of rare magazines from around the globe.
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THE BLACK GLOVE
Dir Maria Beatty
USA – 1993 - 30 min
www.bleuproductions.com
Lesbian / Fetish / Explicit
The mysterious world of the senses that Maria inhabits is one of complete surrender to the wills and whims of the hypnotically intense Mistress Morgana, and the exotic, ambiguous creature, TV Sabrina. This visionary noir exercise examines and crosses the boundaries of dominance and submission in its artful escalation of pleasure & pain, bondage & menace, fetishism & foot worship... as she writhes in ecstasy
BACCHANALE
Dir. John & Lem Amero,
Audio by Sam Zimmerman, Nick Hallett and Motgomery Knott
USA - 1970/2006 - 65 min
Experimental / Vintage / Explicit
Bacchanale is a "lost" surrealist adult arthouse film from 1970, released towards the end of the grindhouse era and at the dawn of XXX. For this screening, MonkeyTown, a Brooklyn New York-based arts collaborative and cinema space, assembled a community movie-making project by inviting 50 musicians to reinterpret the film (which is currently out of commercial release). The result experience is an era-bending megamix of illicit thrills.
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Rated x Panels
Friday 16 - 16h - Kriterion 3
Sexual politics for dummies
Moderator: Marije Lieuwens
In the current society sexual politics seems more important than ever to give guidance how to deal with our own sexualities as well as in a broader political and social context. What role can sexual politics play in the current political climate? What do we mean when we talk of sexual politics anyway?
An introduction to sexual politics with experts coming from both theory and practice.
Gert Hekma
Gert Hekma teaches gay and lesbian studies in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the UvA. His specialism is sociology and history of (homo)sexuality.
He now works on an encyclopedia of perversions, on the Dutch poet Jacob Israel de Haan, on discrimination of gays and lesbians in The Netherlands, on sex capitals and on a comparison of gay emancipation after WW II in various Western countries.
Mithu M. Sanyal
Dr. des. Mithu Melanie Sanyal,was born in 1971 and studied German and English Literature with a focus on feminist and post colonial studies. She is an award winning journalist and author in Germany. In February 2009 her book Vulva - die Enthüllung des unsichtbaren Geschlechs (Vulva - unveiling the invisible sex(ual organ) will be published. She is involved with Ladyfest Dusseldorf.
Ursula de Aguila
Ursula de Aguila is chief of heading for the main French gay and lesbian magazine Têtu. In her articles and work she has written a lot about female pornography as well as lesbian culture.
Hanneke Felten
Hanneke Felten (MA.) is a board member of Femnet: the feminist network of GroenLinks (the Dutch green party). Her academic background is in Social Work and Services in Eindhoven followed by Comparative Women’s Studies at the University of Utrecht. She works as a researcher, trainer and advisor in the field of diversity and emancipation at a national knowledge centre.
Saturday 17 - 16h - Kriterion 3
Positive pornofication: Women strike back
Moderator: Heleen Veijs
The Dutch media is raving about pornofication and sexualization. Porn is ruining our lives, disturbing the sexual development of young people and still objectifies women. Sex seems to be selling it all, everywhere.
But can porn and erotica play a role in changing representations of sex and gender in a positive way? Is this commercially sellable or is it the illusion of the idealistic happy few? A discussion with women who are in control, ranging from the commercial world to the underground avant-garde.
Sandy Wenderhold
Sandy Wenderhold is the owner of the Dutch porn publishing company Sansyl. Jan Wenderhold founded Sansyl 40 years ago and left it to his daughter Sandy. Starting out as a publisher of a variety of Dutch porn magazines Sansyl is now a worldwide commercial business addressing a variety of media like films, the internet and print media.
Anna Span
Anna Span is the first female porn director in Great Britain. She started out in 1997 and is now an award winning filmmaker. Her films focus on the female enjoyment of sex and includes many different genres. Span is also a member Feminists against Censorship.
Sue du Plessis
Sue is one of the people at Mail & Female, the first female friendly sex shop in Europe, which celebrated their 20th birthday in 2008. Mail & Female is a company which combines personal ideals with a great sense of commerciality. Next to being a an on- and offline store, the ladies at Mail & Female want to change the Dutch mentality towards sexuality in a positive and uplifting way.
Murielle Scherre
Murielle Scherre is the founder of La Fille d'O, an unique lingerie collection which she designs to enhance the natural beauty of the female body. Next to that she is a writer, entrepreneur and responsible for the Devilles Harem Girls. In Belgium she is one of the fore fighters of a different approach to female sexuality and empowerment.
Wendy Delorme
Wendy Delorme is a French writer & performance artist. Author of the queer novel and feminist manifesto Quatrième Génération (Grasset, France, 2007), and a collection of short stories about sex politics & queer lives (to be published in March 2009. She is also the star of short films 'The Apple' and new film UNDERGROUND: FROM PARIS TO BERLIN from which a teaser will be shown at the festival.
Sunday 18 - 16h - Kriterion 3
How to be a ‘real man’ in porn?
Moderator: Eveline Cortier
In what way is masculinity portrayed in pornography? Porn is a domain where female objectification is almost a given fact, but with changing views on sexuality views on the concept of masculinity are able to change as well. How do experts from different backgrounds and fields of work deal with the concept of masculine sexuality?
Lazlo Pearlman
Lazlo Pearlman, finalist in the Erotic Awards for Performance Artist of the Year, is a London based GenderBent, GenderQueer, Female-To-Male Trrrranny Burlesque, Vaudeville, Fetish, Porno and Cabaret performer, song stylist, director and teacher whose twenty year body of work is often but not always based on the fact that he used to be a girl...
Jaap Kooijman
Kooijman is author of Fabricating the Absolutely Fake (2008) in which he depicts the influence of American pop culture on contemporary society. Next to that he’s co-coordinator of the ASCA research project ‘What’s Queer Here?’ He used to write reviews of gay (explicit) cinema for Outrate.net
Judy Minx is a 19-year-old porn actress, sex-performer, sex-educator, and queer/feminist/sex-positive activist. Her performances deal with a variety of topics such as nudity and radical exhibitionism, femme identities, the control of science over women and queer people's bodies, BDSM and kink... The porn websites and directors she has worked for range from John B. Root's mainstream straight porn empire www.explicite-art.com, to Emilie Jouvet's hot dyke/trans porn flick "Underground", to Courtney Trouble's queer political www.nofauxxx.com, to artsy erotic www.nakedby.com.
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Parties
Friday 16 january
Stubnitz:
23:00 - 05:00 hrs: Rated X afterparty
organised by Electronation, Basserk and Girlesque events
music line up: Transformer di Roboter (GER), Homeowork (NL), Rick y Rulo (ARG), Timic and Polazoid (B), Fraulein du Det, Sandrien, ZoëXenia, Pepper Minsky and friends (live)
visual line up: Nunswithguns: VJ Revolizer, Normal con Alas - Cake VJ
Dierck (also outside: life buoys), Schwartzwald by Richard Kimmel (USA 2007), Arnold by Frank Gassner (AT), Mediawar
Entrance 10 euro
Location: Stubnitz (NDSM werf, Amsterdam north)
Saturday 17 january
Lecherous Encounters at Kriterion.
Lewd & lascivious tunes by MOSKOW DISKOW’s Goldfinger & DiskoMachina
Live on stage: the immaculately Sexy Les Bif tecs.
Be seduced into the mind-boggling fantasy world of queer burlesque performer Wendy Delorme (FR) & vaudeville peformer Lazlo Pearlman, and the original 8mm 50's & 60's frivolous celluloid clips in the foyer.
&
THE ALL NIGHT EROTICA EXTRAVAGANZA (free screening in K01)
An insane mish-mash of lost and found sexploitation footage, horny zombies, porn musicals and 70’s XXX trailers a go-go! This special late night program is hot, over-the-top and totally FREE! Supported by Synapse Films. www.synapse-films.com
free admission!!!
Sunday 18th of januari 16:00 - 19:00
Kriterion
Sunday Afternoon Fetish Fantasy Cocktail Lounge with Maria Beatty.
Come and join our star guest Maria Beatty for a chat and a kinky cocktail!
Stylish fetish visuals and original 40s german nightclub tunes by DV Grammofoon.
Dress up for a sultry sunday afternoon and bring your own fetish!
free admission!!
