SCREENING SEX
“I don’t know what it is, but I know it when I see it.”
- United States Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart, 1964
The definition of modern pornography is intimately tied up in a history of the legal and moral attempts at its censorship. Justice Potter Stewart’s infamous phrase points to a difficulty in the discussion of an entire genre of cultural production: that its definition has been, and remains, elusive.
The films for this screening are collected to invite the viewer to question: What is a pornographer? What is an aesthete? What constitutes the “hard-core” in porn? What happens to the sexual act itself when you film it, and how does the filmmaker’s choices turn that act into, or away from, pornography? How do we define sex, anyway, and who gets to define it?
FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 25TH
8PM DOOR, SCREENING STARTS 8:30PM
$5+ DONATION AT THE DOOR TO GET IN
3647 FALLS ROAD, BALTIMORE MD -> UPSTAIRS
FOLLOWED BY QUESTION AND ANSWER SESSION WITH:
ME
JIZ LEE
~*~ PROGRAM ~*~
This screening contains flashing images which may not be suitable for those with photosensitive epilepsy.
THE KISS
Thomas Edison
The very first motion picture of a kiss.
STRETCH
Camilo Gonzalez
Bubble gum.
THE REVOLUTION IS MY BOYFRIEND (clip)
Bruce La Bruce
The Raspberry Reich (released in a sexually explicit version as The Revolution is my Boyfriend) is a 2004 film by director Bruce LaBruce which explores what LaBruce calls "terrorist chic", cult dynamics, and the "innate radical potential of homosexual expression.”
TREATS
A Four Chambered Heart
Tasty.
PIX
Antonio da Silva
We live in times where Internet and social media rule our lives. Gays have embraced online dating and beyond a casual hook up, for some our online profiles and exposed body feed our narcissistic and exhibitionist sides, while for others is an endless voyeuristic hunt. PIX is a series of flickering images (faceless-selfies) of 2500 gay men building a three minutes animation portraying what is happening in the “marketplace of desire”. Thousands of male bodies in typical male poses are put together creating the mosaic of one body.
JUMP CUT
Saskia Quax
Jumpcut allows you to playfully experience the particular sexual fantasy of one young woman -- a fantasy in which no words are spoken.
INTIMACY: SEASON 2 DAY 7 (clip)
Abel Azcona
"Intimacy" (Season Two) is a video performance project about the intimate emotional bonds that the artist Abel Azcona, who deals with great issues to empathize, created with Jennifer López, with whom he has had a love affair during 2013-2014. The second stage of this project was recorded in Madrid (Spain) from the 12th to the 18th of February of 2014, and further stages shall be recorded from now on with different collaborators during the life of the artist.
ACTION PAINTING NO. 1 / NO. 2
Krefer and Turca
Sex as a mutually creative gesture.
GRAPHIC DEPICTIONS, EPISODE 5 (clip)
Stoya
Ana’s face is gorgeous and her ass is glorious. She knows both of these things but she still responds to compliments with a pretty smile.
BEST SLUMBER PARTY EVER
Tee Vee Dinner
Best Slumber Party Ever is a short deep lez pornographic film about pillow fights, spin the bottle, scissoring and secret sporty spice obsessions.
FACETTES DE LA PETITE MORT
Beautiful Agony
A cumpilation video.
CRASHPAD EPISODE 35 (clip)
Shine Louise Houston
Syd has another casual encounter with Mickey, except this time it's the real one.
EIN WOCHENENDE IN DEUTSCHLAND
Jan Soldat
Manfred and Jürgen, both in their mid 70s, are enjoying their free Saturday. Lying in the sun, working in the garden and struggling. On sunday Rosi, an old pal of theirs, comes around to join their S&M bondage session. An ordinary weekend in Germany.