FOCUS SEX WORK · SNAP! Festival

SEX? WORK!

SATURDAY MAY 4, 4 PM
CINÉMA AVENTURE — SALLE 1

PAY WHAT YOU CAN
7€ - 9€

⌚︎ 53min

In all times and places, sex workers have developed strategies for selling sexual services based on the technologies available. From collective spaces offering IRL services such as strip bars and brothels, to digital screens broadcasting online sex, the economic and corporal skills involved are varied. Affectivities between sex workers, modalities of customer relations and emotional complexities come together in a session that never ceases to reaffirm: sex work is work.

This screening is made in partnership with the SNAP! Festival.

Films in program

HOUSE OF WHORESHIP

Holly Bates / AU / 2023 / 15min / DCP / OV EN ST FR

When brothel worker Violet returns to work post break-up to find her recent ex-girlfriend hustling the same shift, she must make the choice between avoidance and vulnerability in order to make her month’s rent.

GREY NARCISSUS (CONFESSIONS OF A LATE-MID-LIFE DIGITAL EXHIBITIONIST)

Robert Lawson, One-Hand Band / USA / 2023 / 5min / DCP / OV EN ST FR

🌐 International Premiere

Drawn from an interview with the filmmaker for The Heart of Jacks podcast, Grey Narcissus is a short, queer, pornographic documentary that explores how technology has made it possible for anyone to make their own erotic art, and how this ease of production has enabled the filmmaker himself to have a presence in erotic art at the age of 60.

FRUITION

Anto Reyes Arévalo / CL / 2023 / 15min / DCP / OV SP ST FR, EN / International Premiere

🌐 International Premiere

Mango explores her own sensuality on the screen of her devices. The coincidences of virtuality lead her to produce money from her sexual content, becoming Ronette. As her performance matures, she meets other creators on social media who share their experiences with her, telling her in confidence how they got into the industry, what challenges they faced and how they have creatively solved the production of their content.