Programs - Don't Stop

Saturday, November 19, 2011 · 10:00pm

Don't Stop

$12 ·

Defying both genre and traditional form, this program showcases work that explores many facets of insatiable queer sexuality. Ranging from the suggestive to the explicit, filmmakers examine desire as it is expressed in a multitude of ways, including straight boys who see nothing wrong with posing for gay porn, conversations about desire with queer men of color, and the adventures of wet-thighed dykes. From the grotesquely sexual testimonial of Forbidden Cigarette to the implicit nature of the explicit in lesbian hand gestures, these shorts challenge the viewer to examine what turns them on and turns them out, all outside of any prescribed formula for eroticism.

Curated by the Festival Programming Committee. Total Running Time: 82 min.

lesbian hand gestures

Coral Short & Mascha Nehls

2011, USA, video color, sound, 3 min.
Mirrored images of hands clad in black latex beckon towards and titillate the viewer in this Lesbians on Ecstasy music video.

The Naked-Boy Business Part 2

André Hereford

2011, USA, video, color, sound, 5 min.

In the form of a dreamlike confession set to music, two wrestlers bare their souls and brave the consequences for posing nude in the second episode of an audio-visual odyssey through the naked-boy business.

feti(sh)ame

Kevin Simmonds

2011, USA, video, B&W, sound, 25 min.

feti(sh)ame is an arousing adaptation of a book of poems based on interviews with gay men discussing their fetishes and connections to shame.

Raped Carrot Porn

Urban Porn

2010, France, video, color, sound, 3 min.

The recipe for a good Raped Carrot Porn? Prepare some "Do it Yourself" sextoys, find same good old "Z" movies and get inspired by post-porn feminist culture. Bon appétit!

Little White Cloud That Cried

Guy Maddin

2009, Canada/Germany, video,
color, sound, 4 min.

Goddesses unleash the power of the sea to channel forces beyond their bedrooms. Moving image and still photos create an orgiastic collage set ablaze in this musical short, created as an homage to underground filmmaker Jack Smith.

Harigata: The Alien Dildo that Turned Women into Sex-Hungry Lesbos

Szu Burgess

2003, USA, Super8mm to video, B&W, 10 min.

This is a MIX classic. Made to premiere at MIX in 2003, it's been a runaway hit. Combining vintage porn footage, original inter-titles and scenes from It Came from Outer Space, it's funny, outrageous and sexy.

Aquarius

Jody Jock

2011, USA, video, color, sound, 11 min.

Both tender and hardcore, Aquarius follows a young man as he uses magick to manifest the love he desires.

Gezacktes Rinnsal schleicht SICH schamLos schenkelnässend an (Zig-Zag Streamlet Sneaking in Shamelessly Thigh-wetting)

Ursula Pûrrer, A. Hans Scheirl

1985, Austria, video, color, sound, 5 min.

Zigzag streamlet sneaking in shamelessly twighwetting. Three Fairies in green light are moving towards-the steam in the night-coal and pissing knees are glowing-icy fingers are melting now-though that everywhere in big puddles-mirror-pictures are trembling-mirror-pictures are trembling.

Forbidden Cigarette

Christopher Westfall

2011, USA, video, color, sound, 6 min.

A man recalls a memorable hookup while sitting naked and having a cigarette at his hotel room window.

Robottom

Stephen Kent Jusick

2003, USA, Super8mm,
color, sound on CD, 10 min.

Recalling the clunky sci-fi of Ultra Man, Dr. Who and Johnny Sokko, two sexy mandroids join in battle before conducting experiments of the intimate kind.