Posts Tagged “Porn Film Festival Berlin”

3. PORN FILM FESTIVAL BERLIN: The Last Day

by Travis Jeppesen on October 27, 2008

The 3. Porn Film Festival Berlin reached its ecstatic climax last night with a screening of Claudette, winner of the Maleflixx.TV Award for Best Gay Film at this year’s festival – even though it’s not a gay film or even (…)

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Todd Verow at 3. Porn Film Festival Berlin

by Travis Jeppesen on October 26, 2008

I have to admit that I haven’t seen any of Todd Verow’s previous films, but I admire the abrasive, fuck-you aesthetic you find in his latest, Where Your Heart Should Be, which received its world premiere last night at the (…)

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Katharina Klewinghaus at 3. Porn Film Festival Berlin

by Travis Jeppesen on October 26, 2008

As someone who was addicted to slasher films as a child in the 1980s, and who went on to read a ton of feminist and queer theory at university in the 1990s, I’ve long been fascinated with the contradictory ways (…)

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Charles Lum at the 3. Porn Film Festival Berlin

by Travis Jeppesen on October 25, 2008

One of the highlights of this year’s Porn Film Festival was last night’s screening of a suite of short films by Charles Lum, The HIV Collection. Taken together, the films form a fractured feature of sorts that sustains itself thematically (…)

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PORN AGAIN: 3. Porn Film Festival Berlin

by Travis Jeppesen on October 24, 2008

This week I’ll be “reporting” from the third installment of Berlin’s Porn Film Festival. By reporting, I mean that I’ll be catching films here and there, discussing what I’ve seen, exploring general issues that arise in the conflation of art (…)

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