Coming next month, the first ever public screening of MATT AND KHYM: BETTER THAN EVER. Yay!

Pinched, Amsterdam June 2
Feminist Fantasies

An evening that focuses on female sexuality and pornography. Jennifer Lyon Bell (Blue Artichoke Films & Rated X Festival) will create a film program especially for PINCHED. Marije Lieuwens(Beperkt Houdbaar) will express her views on female pornography in a column that she presents at this theme night.

Programme:
“Matt and Khym: Better Than Ever” (Comstock Films, Dir: Tony Comstock)
“One Night Stand”/”Red Fetish Bathroom” (Hysterie Production, Dir: Emilie Jouvet)
“Afrodite Superstar” (Femme Chocolat, Dir: Venus Hottentot)
“Intimate Moments: More Real Orgasms” (abbywinters.com)
“Headshot” (Blue Artichoke Films, Dir: Jennifer Lyon Bell)

PINCHED is about the countermovements in the field of love, sexuality and pornography. What are the daring initiatives we can find when we look at art, theory, practice and academics? In what way can sexuality be set free from the commercial pornographic representations we find in everyday life? The current debate concerning these topics focuses on suppression and exploitation, where are the positive alternatives?
We want to take the debate to another level in a serie of theme-nights, an exhibition in collaboration with Meneer de Wit, centre for art, culture and development, and an international festival on the 21st of June.
New and daring thoughts and ideas will seduce you to look beyond that what pretends to be our ideal standard.
During these events the audience is confronted with questions like: how are women dealing with commercial representations of their sexuality, what can we learnfrom the sexualrevolution in the 60s and 70s and our main question: are we part of the sexual revolution of the 21st century? We will be looking for answers in on different levels: lectures, screenings, performance and media-art.

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Posted the same to a professional documentary forum that I’m fairly active on and got this:

I think it’s very complimentary that you are the only male director in the lot. You must be incredibly sexually sensitive… uh… emotionally speaking, of course.

Replied:

Tea shot out of my wife’s nose when I showed her your post. None the less, the sentiment is appreciated.

C H O C O L A T

That’s not a typo. That’s the name of Candida Royale’s new line “aimed at tastefully serving the erotic needs of women of color,” and the picture above is from the first release, AFRODITE SUPERSTAR.

I am neither a woman, nor am I of color, (unless blotchy irish pink and white counts,) but I like the the above image and the two others you can see from the sex scene between Simone Valentino and Mr. Marcus’s sex on Fleshbot. I like them a lot. These are the sorts of images that serve my erotic needs. These are the sort of images of sex that make me say, “Yes, that. I need more of that.”

And just what is “that?”

Hmmm. Hard to put into words, but look at the pictures and I think you’ll know what I mean, and I think you’ll want more of that too.

Is there more of that in AFRODITE SUPERSTAR? I don’t know. It’s a long path from three great frames to a whole movie, but the trip down that path can’t start without the first frame, then the second, then the third, and these lovely first three frame are making a big, and tantalizing promise. Here’s hoping the film delivers!