Community Action Center is an ambitious work that sets out to meet the urgent need for sexy, explicit lesbian pornography! Created by and about lesbian collaboration, Community Action Center flows over a series of very loosely connected scenes showing variety of dykes fucking each others' brains out.

The film represents a huge undertaking, important not only for its feminist sensibility and explicit images but also for bringing up concepts of community as they intersect with sexuality. Deliberately assembled with friends as willing participants, Community Action Center situates itself in the real world but nonetheless imagines this world as consisting of one sexual encounter after another. Piecing together texts and influences, Community Action Center references both well-known and obscure images and ideas, including queer favorites like Jack Smith and Carolee Schneeman. Celebrating and subverting images typical in pornography and pop culture erotica, this tour of lesbian sexuality includes everything from the archetypical witch, to fruit, honey and an egg. Straight porn images are literally delivered by the pizza boy and subversively sent to the car wash.

With the addition of a live musical performance by Community Action Center score contributors Sam Miller and Nick Hallett and a Q&A with director A.K. Burns, we're kicking off our closing night with a very exciting afternoon!

Since September 2010, Steiner & Burns have taken the show on the road to be seen by new friends and collaborators. Dykes have a history of building connections through sharing content that challenges us, recalling the way Barbara Hammer toured her early work in women's coffee houses and stirred up trouble with explicit images of bodies and sexual pleasure. Community Action Center is well situated in the tradition of lesbian art that raises questions about women's complicated relationship with pornography and erotica. After touching down briefly in NYC, the journey continues in creating a constellation of screenings around the world.

And how does sexuality express itself and get represented outside traditional monogamous pairs? Can we create community through sexual expression and connection? Community Action Center is here with both its complicated content and the simple fact of its presentation to fuel the fire of our ongoing conversations about communing sexually through bonds of friendship... and the bonds of piercings, spankings and dildos.

The video is an interview with an activist from the Copenhagen queer milieu, filmed with the lens-cap left on the camera. The interviewee begins by talking about pornography and about the creation of separatist rooms. About halfway into the film she goes on to speak, in more general terms, about the possibilities for being different in today's society. The film opens and concludes with a long silent scene from a big public square in Copenhagen. An excellent pairing for contemplation of the challenges of representing queer women's bodies and sexuality!