It’s a bit much really. Just weeks after coming home from a holiday in France I’m about to fly back to Europe to attend the Berlin Porn Film Festival. It’s costing me way too much money and I’m not looking forward to another 23 hours on a plane but I felt like I’d be missing an important opportunity if I didn’t go.
My short film The Thought Of Her is screening in the Female Porn session (Thu 27/10 at 13:45 and again on Sat 29/10 at 19:45) and my essay on feminist porn was recently published in the German film magazine Schnitt to co-incide with the festival.
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On top of that, I’m keen to meet feminist porn legends Tristan Taormino, Jiz Lee and Nico Noelle, among others. I’ll also be catching up with filmmaker friends Jennifer Lyon Bell, Anna Span and Petra Joy. I’m also really hoping to shoot some erotic content when I’m in Berlin. Nothing has been planned but given the cheerful and easygoing vibe of the festival, it’s a real possibility. If nothing else, I’ll shoot some interviews and other footage for small documentaries.
I’ve been to the Berlin Porn Film Festival twice before, in 2008 and 2009. The latter was especially fabulous, as you can see in the little doco I made about it:
The festival is one of the few opportunities to meet with and discuss emerging ideas about porn, film and sexuality. It’s not a commercial expo like the Venus exhibition which was on a couple of weeks ago in the same city. Instead, it’s a more intellectual and artistic endeavour and one that is becoming increasingly popular. There’s something very liberating about sitting in a packed theatre and watching dirty movies with other people. It’s such a shame we can’t do anything like it here in Australia due to our ridiculous censorship laws (although change may be on the horizon, fingers crossed).
In any case, I’ll be scarce for a couple of weeks. When I come back, I plan to finally kickstart my filmmaking plans and hopefully have a real feature finished in 2012.
Nice to meet you too in Berlin and we follow your filmtips on twitter.
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