NICOLA RIOS

Nicola Rios (he/him) is an independent curator, film programmer, gender scholar and promiscuous researcher from Chile. Over the last 10 years, he has worked as an advocate for critical sex education and erotic justice for several institutions and organizations. From 2011 to 2015 he was the curator of the postporn section for the Cine//B Independent Film Festival. He is the founder and head programmer of « Excéntrico », an annual event around critical pornographies that takes place in Valparaíso and Santiago de Chile since 2019. As guest curator or juror, he has supported international events such as "Ciclo Hasta las Tetas" (Barcelona/Buenos Aires), "Festival internacional de Artes Eróticas" (Bogotá/Medellín), "Satyrs and Maenads: the Athens Porn Film Festival", the "Post Pxrn Film Festival Warsaw" and the "Berlin Porn Film Festival". Currently he leads a PhD research project around the pedagogical uses of pornography in Chilean schools at the University of Barcelona.

VEX ASHLEY

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 creative medium for ideas. Headed by performer Vex Ashley and self taught in filmmaking 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 project remains deliberately ambiguous, rejecting labels for both their films and performers, existing in-between genres of both art and pornography and dismissing the need for a definition of either. Exploring themes of technology, symbolism, mythology and alchemy and their intrinsic intersection with sex and part of the growing decentralization from traditional adult industry business, Four Chambers is independent, DIY, conceptual, pornography cinema.

SARAH MOON HOWE

Sarah Moon Howe is a Belgian psychologist, a dancer, ex-stripper and director. In 2003 she directs "Ne dites pas à ma mère", an autobiographical fi lm that unveils,through archive images, her experience as a stripper. The film premiered at the 60th Venice Film Festival, gaining international recognition and participating in several festivals around the world. Her works includes the documentaries "En cas de dépressurisation" (BE, 2009, 46'), "Le Complexe du Kangourou" (BE, 2014, 60'), "Celui qui sait saura qui je suis' (BE, 2017, 75') and "Fantômes du passé (comment l'histoire est entrée en moi)" (BE, CA, FR, 2021, 78'), made in partnership with Boris Lehman. With her documentaries, she set the bases of a sensible body of work, where the limits between private and public are often blurred, and where she transcends her experiences to capture it in image and sound.