An animated John Wayne eats his own penis.
A man is videotaped from the neck up while
he receives fellatio from an unknown woman.
Spiders are, indeed, in love. This collection
of modern avant-garde cinema will set your
head aflame with the limitless possibilities
in which we can communicate and demonstrate
eroticism (and it’s not always pretty).
It includes new work from acclaimed artists
Martha Colburn, R. Kern, Bruce LaBruce, Eon
McKai and Nick Zedd.
Clean
Hands, Dirty Photographs
2007 / U.S. / 1 min.
Director: Eon McKai
Extra
Action
2007 / U.S. / 58 mins.
Director: R. Kern
Give
Piece of Ass a Chance
2007 / Canada / 14 mins.
Director: Bruce LaBruce
Headshot
2006 / Netherlands / 9 mins.
Director: Jennifer Lyon Bell
Kill
John Wayne
2007 / U.S. / 6 ½ mins.
Director: Vivian Wong
Lift
Off
1998 / U.S. / 3 mins.
Director: Martha Colburn
Push-ups
2007 / U.S. / 2 mins.
Director: Vivian Wong
Spiders
in Love: An Arachnogasmic Musical
1999 / U.S. / 3 mins.
Director: Martha Colburn
The
Best of CineKink -
CineKink (CineKink.com) is, as you’d
imagine, a film festival devoted to all things
near and dear to our hearts: eroticism, sexuality,
fetishism and cinema. Known for their open
minds, tasteful aesthetics and passionate
integrity, they have been hailed as “the
really alternative film festival.” LAEFF
recently partnered up with CineKink to work
together in searching out the best new erotica
cinema (or is it “kink,” we suppose
it depends on who you ask) so that we can
share. This program of films includes all
award winners from CineKink’s most recent
festival. It represents a dynamic range of
styles, genres, content and, most of all,
possibilities. Located in NYC, they are gearing
up for their fifth festival to take place
Feb. 26-March 2, 2008. Check it out.
Do
You Take It?
2006 / Canada / 3 mins.
Director: Kirby Ferguson
*Honorable Best Mention
Filthy
Food
2006 / U.S. / 5 mins.
Director: T. Arthur Cottam
*Best Experimental Short
guy101
2006 / UK / 8 mins.
Director: Ian Gouldstone
*Best Narrative Short (tie)
Hitchcocked
2006 / U.S. / 8 mins.
Director: David Young
*Best Narrative Short (tie)
Honey
and Bunny
2006 / UK / 10 mins.
Director: Eva Midgley
*Honorable Best Mention
Hot
and Bothered: Feminist Pornography
2006 / U.S. / 37 mins.
Director: Becky Goldberg
*Honorable Best Mention
Dick Ho is an enigma. Did he exist? Did he
have sex with all of those women on film?
Is he really an Asian man with a 12-inch penis
(flaccid)? You’ll get down to the bottom
of that mystery in the mockumentary spoof
Dick Ho: Asian Male Porn Star. Straight out
of Knoxville, Tenn., comes a strange hybrid
of anti-war/anti-Bush verité-style
documentary footage interwoven with highly
aesthetic amateur porn. Fuc Bush wears its
agenda on its sleeve while addressing head-on
the literal meaning of social-sexual economics.
Liberty in Restraint is a mesmerizing documentary
about the Australian artist Noel Graydon,
whose primary work involved photographing
fetishism, particularly in the BDSM world.
This fascinating and candid journey delivers
an honest portrayal of a subculture that is
oftentimes maligned or mocked when represented
by the popular culture. The film is made even
more urgent by the fact that Graydon died
tragically in July of a sudden illness that
came as a shock to his family, friends and
the filmmakers of this documentary.
Dick
Ho: Asian Male Porn Star
2005 / U.S. / 30 mins.
Director: Jeffrey Lei
Fuc
Bush
2006 / U.S. / 25 mins.
Director: Marcus Washington
Liberty
in Restraint
2005 / U.S. / 33 mins.
Director: Michael Ney
Eroticomedy
-
Sex
and humor have always been strange bedfellows.
Some of these films will have you reaching
for your crotch while you’re busting
a gut — a very strange sensation. The
humor runs the gamut from social satire
to spoof to just plain old fucked-up (as
in Fucked-Up Hot). Many of the more refined
films in this program come to us from our
sisters-in-crime over at CineKink (see the
program listing for Best of CineKink for
more information about their festival),
from a program they cleverly titled “Twisted
Knickers.” We, of course, provided
the rest of the fucked-up shorts.
Fucked-up
Hot
2007 / U.S. / 2 mins.
Director: Bobby Leigh
The
Honey Pot
1997 / U.S. / 8 mins.
Director: Todd Lincoln
Maid
of Honor
2006 / U.S. / 25 mins.
Director: Matt Morillo
Married
Life
2007 / UK / 2 mins.
Director: Tom Hickmore
No
Pussy for Polluters
2007 / U.S. / 1 ½ mins.
Director: Joe Gantz
Open
2006 / U.S. / 12 mins.
Director: Teale Failla
Pornographic
Apathetic
2006 / U.S. / 5 ½ mins.
Director: T. Arthur Cottam
Skelehellavision
2003 / U.S. / 10 mins.
Director: Martha Colburn
Sullivan’s
Last Call
2006 / U.S. / 18 mins.
Director: Francesca Rizzo
Eroticore
-
The porn industry has been flirting for decades
with the possibility of crossing over into
the mainstream and obtaining cinematic respectability
(although “Girls Gone Wild” and
its extreme porno cousin “gonzo”
haven’t helped anybody with that notion,
especially during our current conservative
administration). There have been some strides
made in the technical quality, production
value and storylines of several recent big-budget
porn films — films that could easily
pass for an A-list Hollywood feature. We offer
a glimpse into this recent slate of films
featuring some of the biggest filmmakers in
the industry including Ethan Kane, Roy Karch,
Max Royale and John Stagliano.
Being
Paulina in Tokyo, Japan
2007 / U.S. / 30 mins.
Director: Dominic Acerra
Crush
2006 / U.S. / 2 ½ mins.
Director: Ethan Kane
Flash
2006 / U.S. / 2 ½ mins.
Director: Ethan Kane
Game
2006 / U.S. / 2 ½ mins.
Director: Ethan Kane
Hairless
gets Spunk’d
2007 / U.S. / 22 ½ mins.
Director: Justin Kane
Insertz
2007 / U.S. / 29 ½ mins.
Director: Roy Karch
Not
Another Porn Movie
2007 / U.S. / 20 mins.
Director: Joanna Angel
Meta-Erotica
-
Just as our Eroticore program focuses on the
porn industry’s bid for big-budget Hollywood
acceptability, this program is the independent
film’s equivalent response to those studio
films. These films are mostly independently
financed and distributed, in the spirit of
the punk rock DIY movement, and embrace an
entirely different artistic value that runs
contrary to the slick and polish of their
more mainstream brethren. They aren’t
afraid of tackling sensitive subject matter
or exploring difficult themes and issues.
That being said, not all of the pieces presented
here are free from studio involvement but
somehow they still manage to turn that influence
on its ear. Just like Disney owns Miramax,
sometimes the most revealing content comes
crashing through the very institution it holds
in defiance.
Bad
Girl Part II
2007 / U.S. / 5 mins.
Director: Nathan Strausse
Blue
1992 / Canada / 22 mins.
Director: Don McKellar
Loud
Silence
2006 / U.S. / 25 mins.
Director: Marcus Washington
Meat
Angel X
2005 / U.S. / 10 mins.
Director: Joe Gallant
Re-Penetrator
2005 / U.S. / 25 mins.
Director: Doug Sakmann
Sluts
and Ammo
2007 / U.S. / 3 mins.
Director: Bella Vendetta
Ultra
Violet
2007 / U.S. / 13 mins.
Director: Max Royale
Mini-Features
-
Contrary to popular belief, the word “erotica”
isn’t a euphemism for porn. In fact,
the word actually refers to literature and
storytelling long before photographs, motion
pictures or DVDs were invented. So it goes
that, although this festival has its share
of porn, it also features many other works
of art that exist outside of that world. This
program in particular showcases an international
buffet of narrative-driven shorts that come
to us by such luminaries as Sundance, Tribeca,
Los Angeles and Silver Lake film festivals,
and several of them have won multiple awards
from around the world.
The
Recycler
1994 / U.S. / 9 mins.
Director: Kent Smith
Reptile
Day
2006 / UK / 12 mins.
Director: Tom Hickmore
Salt
Kiss
2007 / Brazil / 18 mins.
Director: Fellipe Gamarano Barbosa
The
Sugar on Top
2005 / U.S. / 35 mins.
Director: Bad Otis Link
Music
Videos -
Here are an eclectic group of music videos
all with one thing on their minds…
Blonde
Island: Funk Me
2007 / U.S. / 9 mins.
Director: Dr. Susan M. Block
The
End of Silence/Prequel to Immortality
2007 / U.S. / 4 mins.
Director: Dominic Acerra
Louis
XIV video
2007 / U.S. / 3 ½ mins.
Director: Eon McKai
She
Kills
2007 / U.S. / 3 mins.
Director: Dominic Acerra
Spanky!
Spanky!
2006 / U.S. / 4 mins.
Director: DJ Spot
STR8
ACTN
2007 / U.S. / 3 mins.
Director: Joe Gallant
Retro
-
One of the pieces in this program, Buried
Treasure, an animated wonder of sexual hi-jinx,
includes the handiwork of none other than
Walt Lantz himself, Woody Woodpecker’s
creator. The film was covertly commissioned
for Lantz and a few other early Disney animators
to work on as a birthday present for Disney’s
top animator, Winsor McCay. Thanks to curator
Keith Arnold, we get this and other fun gemstones
from the erotic vault including some real
old blue movie action. So get your nickels
ready as we revisit the past and smile.
Buried
Treasure
1928 / U.S. / 4 mins.
Directors: George Canata, Walter Lantz,
George Stallings, Rudy Zamora, Jr.
Cupid
Gets His Man
1936 / U.S. / 7 mins.
Director: Tom Palmer
I’d
Like to Know You/Dance of Shame
1940 / U.S. / 5 mins.
Director: Unknown
Xperimental
Eros -
LAEFF is proud to screen this collection of
experimental shorts from the San Francisco
avant-garde DVD label Other Cinema (which
released the legendary experimental works
of Craig Baldwin, Mike Kuchar, Sam Green and
Bill Morrison). As the DVD package says, “Be
it tales of sexual obsession, rejected letters
to Penthouse Forum, or the Mr. Nude Trucker
Contest of 1976, no subject is taboo …
nor above deconstruction.” Curator Noel
Lawrence will be on hand to provide a frame
of reference and background details for each
piece in the program and why and how he came
about compiling them together. For fans and
students of experimental cinema this is definitely
not to be missed.
Blue
Movie
1994 / U.S. / 5 mins.
Director: Mark Street
The
Color of Love
1994 / U.S. / 9 ½ mins.
Director: Peggy Ahwesh
Downs
are Feminine
1993 / U.S. / 10 mins.
Director: Lewis Klahr
The
Influence of Ocular Light Perception of
Metabolism in Man and Animal
2005 / U.S. / 5 mins.
Directors: Thomas Draschan and Stella Friedrichs
King
of Porn
1996 / U.S. / 7 mins.
Director: Jeff Krulik
Pacifier
1999 / U.S. / 11 ½ mins.
Director: Oscar Perez
Removed
1999 / U.S. / 6 ½ mins.
Director: Naomi Uman
Sexjunkie
2003 / U.S. / 9 mins.
Director: Julia Ostertag
Sneakin’
and Peekin’
1976 / U.S. / 15 mins.
Director: Tom Palazzolo
