CARTE BLANCHE · PORNY DAYS

SOME SWISS FUCKING LOVE STORIES AND OTHER OBSESSIONS

PAY WHAT YOU CAN
7€ - 9€

⌚︎  56min

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A film program for those desiring sensual extensions of bodies and objects, for individuals with tactile passions, for sound design enthusiasts, for those who have recently fallen in love, and for all whose hearts ache, seeking solace in the immersive realms of smoke, water, and bliss. We invite you on a journey of love-stricken obsessions through the material world that envelops and permeates us. How do you deal and embrace your compulsions, fixations and obsessions? Lets have a chat after the screening. See you there :)

This program has been curated by Porny Days, a five-day festival focusing on the themes of sexuality, sex positivity, corporeality, pornography, and sex work, held annually in Zurich since 2012. The festival is transdisciplinary and aims to create a unique public space for topics that are fraught with complex taboos yet remain central and timeless elements of human cultures. We strive to provide individuals with the opportunity to experience a relaxed environment, free from judgmental sexual morals, at least once a year.

This program is presented in collaboration with Swiss Films.

CRUSHED

Ella Rocca / CH / 2022 / 8min / DCP / OV DE, EN ST FR

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To have a "crush" also means to be crushed or overwhelmed: by fantastically intense feelings, like in a storm. Ella extends this obsessive feeling and thinking in essayistic reflection from the inside onto the screens and onto the canvas.

MIRAGE

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In a powerfully slow-mo film, the two players dance around each other like two foxes on the prowl, exploring each other. The focus is on the touches of bodies encased in latex skin, on the mouths that explore, on the faces that mutually feel, on the saliva that is shared, and on the breath that is controlled and held.

LES DIEUX DU SUPERMARCHÉ

Alberto Gonzalez Morales / CH / 2022 / 8min / DCP / OV FR, EN ST FR, EN

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A film about the profound yearning for the hot male media-insta-advertising body. An honest cinematic portrait of the director's torn feelings with this obsessive love-hate relationship. Using found footage, Alberto not only questions his own, but also our cultural obsession with unrealistic beauty standards and takes us on a shopping tour of bodies through images.

UGLYSATISFYING

Luna E. Heine, Sreya Chatterjee, Lilian Liquid / DE / 2023 / 6min / DCP / NO DIAL

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🇧🇪  Belgian Premiere

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"Oddly Satisfying Videos" are an internet trend where viewers experience a sense of satisfaction. Pimples being satisfyingly squeezed out, noodle soup being slurped loudly, peculiar materials being intricately and precisely cut, crushed, or rolled by machines. You know what we're talking about. But is it porn? Not really, but it's intriguing. Oddly satisfying, indeed.

PUSSY GAZING

abcde Flash / CH / 2023 / 2min / DCP / OV EN ST FR

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A sorcerer struggles to understand the malaise afflicting his feline companion, whose vacant stare into the void speaks to a deeper disconnection with the world. Feeling at a loss for how to heal his feline companion, the sorcerer turns to abcde Flash for guidance, seeking her expertise in the arcane wet arts. Through their collaboration, they forge a bond built on trust and mutual respect, united in their quest to restore the cat's vitality and rekindle its connection to the world around it.

GOUDOU AUTO

Oil Productions / CH / 2022 / 10min / DCP / OV DE ST FR

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Goudou Auto is a dyke journey driven by desire and bizarre experiments on a yellow pick up truck.

MONOCHROME

Dan Nieders / CH, CA / 2022 / 13min / DCP / OV EN, FR, SP ST EN

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Secretly, Juan lives out his fantasies through his alter ego Elise. While Elise is flirting with Marius at a party, Juan suddenly is confronted with an obstacle to overcome: Juan must regain control of the body. A film that twists the head and mind, taking the audience into the inner world of a searching character. To end the program we promise some fucking Swiss alpine meadow romance.