BLOW MY CANDLE: 5 YEAR'S BEST OF
To celebrate the festival’s fifth anniversary, this special program brings together films that have accompanied, surprised, or moved the programming team over the years. It leads us through worlds where imagination spills over, revealing the richness of a cinema long pushed to the margins, too often dismissed as obscene and non‑artistic. These works instead highlight the power of a medium that, by taking sexuality as a field of exploration, becomes a way to speak about oneself and the world, to reclaim both the gaze and the narrative, to unsettle norms and open spaces of freedom. Their formal diversity — from animation to documentary, from fantastic to dramatic, from self‑representation to political declaration — testifies to the vitality of a field in constant reinvention. Together, these films form a shifting landscape that mirrors the festival itself: curious, unruly, plural, shaped by free forms and multiple desires. An anniversary program like a bouquet of affects and visions, a tribute to five years of discoveries and gems from a queer, feminist, and alternative cinema in full expansion.
FILMS IN THIS SCREENING
THE LESBIAN ALIEN DARKROOM FISTING OPERETTA ON VENUS
The two tentacle femmes invites the captain of the sea butches into a lesbian darkroom on Venus.
LA NOCHE DEL MINOTAURO
People wonder where the birds go to die. My grandmother's village had a lighthouse among the mountains, a forest full of creatures and an echo that sounded at night like the warm wind. That's where the birds went to die. THE NIGHT OF THE MINOTAUR is a fantastic tale that uses archival material to construct the story of Luz Emilia García, the precursor of porn cinema in Colombia.
LA BELLE ET LA BÊTE
Tonight’s program has been composed by and for grown-ups who are children at heart. Eternal history, the tale of Belle-Rose. Also known as Beauty and the Beast. Warning, some images are likely to offend homophobic sensibilities.
A CYBORG MANIFESTO
original commissioned by The Museum of Sex for the CAM LIFE exhibition, 'A Cyborg Manifesto' is a visual essay and a personal exploration of a life spent online.
THE BOYS WHO SIT DOWN TO PEE
Boys who step into toilet cubicles instead of standing at the urinals have a secret to hide.
CUM AS YOU ARE
"Anyone who suspects a zeitgeist-inherent statement on identity politics behind the imperative of the title thinks too small. You will be overrun by a declaration of force of what is (primeval) female, which is clinking with strength.
Hanna Schaich's piece is, typical for her, rooted in the autobiographical. She radically raises her voice and gets others who are angry to join her own anger. Together they show how sex can be felt with all senses, naturally with body and mind. All scenes are carried by poetry that sounds like the threat of a new world order, accompanied by metallic-raw music.
Yelled at as a spectators we are asked to explore thought rooms and possibilities of different futures -
What if in supposedly individually experienced mental and physical wounds lies the collective energy for resistance?
What if we squirt, dance, eat, whip away a society cramped in shame and norms? Or even abolish it?
What if the anger of all fighters, who live in existing and past patriarchal structures, who had to endure them, who suffered from them or have come to death by them, what if that anger became an overwhelming, transforming energy turning us into freed, unadjusted and loud people, ready for a positive change? Then we fight for uncompromised being. For love freed from shame. For life as it could be. Alive orgiastically.
Fasten your seat belts on this horny ride through Wild-Wild-Witch-Clity-City. And: CUM AS YOU ARE."
Hanna Schaich's piece is, typical for her, rooted in the autobiographical. She radically raises her voice and gets others who are angry to join her own anger. Together they show how sex can be felt with all senses, naturally with body and mind. All scenes are carried by poetry that sounds like the threat of a new world order, accompanied by metallic-raw music.
Yelled at as a spectators we are asked to explore thought rooms and possibilities of different futures -
What if in supposedly individually experienced mental and physical wounds lies the collective energy for resistance?
What if we squirt, dance, eat, whip away a society cramped in shame and norms? Or even abolish it?
What if the anger of all fighters, who live in existing and past patriarchal structures, who had to endure them, who suffered from them or have come to death by them, what if that anger became an overwhelming, transforming energy turning us into freed, unadjusted and loud people, ready for a positive change? Then we fight for uncompromised being. For love freed from shame. For life as it could be. Alive orgiastically.
Fasten your seat belts on this horny ride through Wild-Wild-Witch-Clity-City. And: CUM AS YOU ARE."
FLOWERS
Starring Sean Ford, Lane Rodger and Joey Mills, we get lost in the eroticsim of suburban boredom and summer flings.
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