Geen eenzame Valentijnsavond voor ons dit jaar. Wij schotelen je een heerlijke hoeveelheid goeie porno voor. Ja, je leest het goed: goeie porno. Wij gaan voor de alternatieve benadering van het filmgenre, bij wijze van reactie op al die merkwaardige mainstream porn. Denk ethisch, denk esthetisch. Denk feministisch en denk queer. 

Porno is een onmiskenbaar onderdeel van onze samenleving. En toch rust op porno een groot taboe, niet iedereen geeft zonder gêne toe graag porno te kijken. Er zijn namelijk mensen die eronder lijden, er zijn mensen die ervan leven en er zijn ook mensen die ervan genieten. Valentijn is voor ons dé gelegenheid om porno van zijn cliché’s te ontdoen en op zoek te gaan naar de mooie kant, naar alternatieve indieporn.

We voorzien een hele avond pornofilms & 70’s/80’s kinky plaatjes (van de hand van Rick Shiver) waarbij de focus ligt op plezier, respect, intimiteit, passie, liefde en lust. Wij willen pornoliefhebbers samenbrengen en nieuwsgierigen warm maken, in een safe space waar iedereen kan reflecteren over en kijken naar dit fenomeen. Kom, kom, koooooom!

PROGRAMMA

17:00 apero
20:00 porn bar w/ Rick Shiver: ‘70s & ‘80s
20:00-21:15 film screenings part 1
22:00-23:00 film screenings part 2 

part 1

THE 36-YEAR-OLD VIRGIN – SKYLER BRAEDEN FOX (TRANS - DOCUMENTARY) 30'
In the past, Skyler has been a fanatically religious teenager, and then a young lesbian queer. Now he is an FtM transgender coming up to middle age, with the recurring idea of having missed some sexual opportunities during his youth. Not that he was inactive sexually, but he feels the need for a more 'standard' experience. For this moment, he chooses Bishop Black to be his partner, and a supportive female friend to hold his hand.
Social worker by day, film maker by night: Skyler Braeden Fox screened his debut short film 'Hello Titty' at queer film festivals worldwide and won an honourable mention at Good For Her's annual Feminist Porn Awards for the film in 2015. 'The 36-year-old Virgin' is Skyler's second film, a short sex documentary released in 2017. Skyler also raps in a band called Peanut Envy, and his work in film and in music focuses on queer and trans sexuality. A self-identified “emotional exhibitionist,” Skyler's work is both revealing and provocative.

IDOLATRY – FOUR CHAMBERS (HETERO) 
Worship is complicated. It’s seductive, unconditional devotion - being seen as a perfect person in someone else's eyes - seems initially ideal. But as soon as you're transmuted into idol, an object of devotion - you stop being human.
From a background in analog photography, art school bullshit and digital sex online, Four Chambers is a project, an idea and an ongoing collaboration with the intention to explore the aesthetic and conceptual potential of pornography as a medium for ideas. Headed by performer, Vex Ashley and self taught in editing and videography with an emphasis on collaborative DIY practices; Four Chambers now exists alongside a new wave of creators making contemporary pornographic work from a new perspective.

THE TOILET LINE – GOODYN GREENE, PRODUCED BY ERIKA LUST FILMS (LESBIAN) 12'
Two women are waiting in the line for the bathroom, the chemistry between the strangers thick in the smoky warehouse air. But when they get into the cubicle, prepare for rough lesbian sex like you´ve never seen before. Diversity, artistry and intense sexuality abound in The Toilet Line.
Goodyn Green is a Danish photographer and queer porn filmmaker living and working in Berlin. She focuses mainly on erotic photography. Goodyn Green directs in the latest from Erika Lust´s award-winning XConfessions series, adapting real anonymous confessions into indie, alternative adult cinema.

YOU MUST BE MY DOLL – LIV MASSEI (ARTIST FILM) 3'
How a women can be objectified for your society? Could us be yourselves?
Liv Massei is ​​​a director, editor and performer from Brazil based in Berlin.

FLOWER – MATT LAMBERT (GAY) 17'
Five models and friends from Helix Studios are filmed over the course of a real evening being themselves and enjoying each other's company both emotionally and physically. 
Matt Lambert is a filmmaker and photographer working between London, Paris, Berlin and LA. Most of his photography and cinematic work explores youth and intimacy, especially in queer related social groups.

part 2 

SKIN – ELIN MAGNUSSON (ART HETERO) 10'
In a room on the seventh floor in a cold city, two people are waking up. They hug each other hard, still, it’s not enough to be able to forget where one body starts and the other ends. Neither of them has a sex or a face and they both wear more layers of skin than they ought to. Old disappointments and badly healed wounds have turned them into this. The hardened skin makes them ask for help to remember the sensation of heat. With a pair of scissors they ask each other for permission to expose, rip up and get in. This is an inquiry to get rid of what’s been long since dead. It’s surgery. Something forgotten turns into a memory that later transforms into fingers, and finally a hand. Hair begins to smell and the sweat is pouring. In close-ups about closeness we see the longing for something new. Art meets porn in a ripping horniness without censorship.
Elin Magnusson is a conceptual video and performance artist and film director. Her work moves in the borderlands where culture clashes into nature and norms are questioned. Feminism, sexuality, body and space are recurring topics in her work. 

FURNITURE PORN PROJECT – ANTOINE HERALY (FUN QUEER) 11'
+++the hottest Louis Philippe wardrobes in a 10km radius around yours – this kinky little bed side table ready for a one-night-stand — central_kitchen_unit sent you a private message+++
Born in the French countryside near Orléans in 1992 and living in Berlin, Antoine Héraly studied films in Nantes and in La Sorbonne, Paris. In 2013, he attended a full frontal demonstration in front of the Senate to contend with raise of puritanism in French politics. Since then, he’s been offered to take part to several nude appearances in short films, which he modestly accepted. After several years working for a radio as well as for cinema festivals as a curator, he realized he was meant to celebrate weird, and experimental sex through photography, drawings and video making.

DOING ELLIOTH - NOEL ALEJANDRO (GAY) 20'
Thomas rings Elliot's door in an attempt to give back his ID card, lost during a morning run at the park. They both met during college, but it's been so long... Will Elliot remember Thomas? Despite living very different lives, they find themselves sharing the same crave for the perfect outbreak.
Noel Alejandro is an independent filmmaker and alternative adult films director who produces in both in Berlin and Barcelona. Even before his first works in the adult films industry, Noel’s path has always been driven by his interest in all kinds of art that break taboos. Having chosen cinematography as his main field, he soon decided that he would push for a more sensitive way of scriptwriting, setting up his stories in order to continuously push pre-settled boundaries of filmmaking.

LOOK AT ME LIKE THAT – MARIKA KOCHIASHVILI & TAMSIN OMOND (PORTRAIT) 10'
A short film that tells the story of one woman's experience of her sexuality - from performance and shame and to exploration, enjoyment and freedom.
Marika Kochiashvili is a photographer and works as a multimedia editor on the photo desk of a global news agency. Tamsin Omond is an activist and actor.

ORGY #001 – AORTA FILMS (QUEER ORGY) 11'
Five perfect powerhouses unite, composing a cacophony of pleasure as they bite, suck, and fist their way to a triumphant climax. Bathed in afternoon light, these beautiful queers playfully kiss, reveling in the joy of touch. Hungrily biting, they hold each other down until each comes, gasping, shaking, and radiant. 

AORTA films makes experimental queer/feminist cinema for our impending post-human future. Led by creator/director Mahx Capacity, and performer/producers Parts Authority and Ginny Woolf, AORTA films seeks to create ethical, lusty, heartfelt content that disrupts boundaries and glitches desire. Working out of DIY and experimental performance contexts, they are interested in creating content that centers performers across a wide range of bodies, genders, races, and identities. They work collaboratively, prioritizing safe and enthusiastically consensual creative processes, and are obsessed with creating aesthetics and narratives that explode with destabilizing pleasure.

HONEYDEW - URSINAE VESPERA (LESBIAN) 6'
Intimate skin landscapes, sticky honey pouring in music over naked Solwenn and Ursinae. 
Vespéral is an indie film project from France, ran by queer performer and artist Ursinae, aiming to explore visual poetry and porn.