Behind Porn
VIBRATIONS
Miguel Soll, Belgium, Brazil, 2022, 13min
in French and Portuguese with English subtitles
In the beginning there was the image. Through memories of a repressed sexuality, between the past and the present, oneself is discovered through pornography.
Miguel Soll is a versatile Brazilian image maker. With a background in communication and film studies, he explores a range of mediums to evoke chaotic yet dreamy atmospheres, moving fluidly between photography, design and pornography. Since 2018, he has been a member of Rubis Collective, where, under the name Diamonds Bitch, he co-directs and signs the cinematography for narrative-driven porn.
instagram.com/miguel.soll
IRRESISTIBLE
Barbora Kleinhamplová & Miss Velvet, Mexico, Czech Republic, 2021, 20min
in English with French subtitles
Irresistible opens up a space to reflect BDSM as a subversive sphere through which wider social change could take place thanks to individual initiatives. Mistress Velvet was a queer dominatrix from Chicago (originally from Ghana) but also a graduate of Gender Studies with focus on the African diaspora. Work in the sex industry became a part of their academic life. Clients who came to Velvet questioned their identities and worked with them to address patriarchal oppression and reparations through black feminist literature. The film is a visual-poetical manifesto which centers on the protagonist as a potential agent of a future revolution. The film also unintentionally became a farewell to Mistress Velvet who unfortunately passed away in March of 2021.
Barbora Kleinhamplová (*1984) is an artist living and working in Prague, Czech Republic. Through associations and metaphors, her work explores the relationship between human existence and contemporary political systems, including the norms and rules that shape them. Kleinhamplová has exhibited widely in the Czech Republic and internationally, including at the Gwangju Biennale, the New Museum (New York), Astrup Fearnley Museet (Oslo), and the Jakarta Biennale.
For the film Irresistible, she had the honor of collaborating artistically with Mistress Velvet, a feminist, communist, and an iconic figure within the BDSM scene.
IN ALL THE ROOMS WE MET
Bonaventure Tain, 2024, 13min
in English with French subtitles
Over the years, a documentary filmmaker and a porn actor met in various rooms, left, and reunited, and now ended up in a room filled with lush greenery. They had a tête-à-tête and vividly recalled their deeply buried childhood sexual fantasies and stories of youthful desires, and the chapters of eroticism intertwined with both reality and fantasy that they have woven together.
Driven by a passion for uncovering raw human emotions, Bonaventure Tain’s films delve into the intricacies of desire, memory, and identity. His 2023 documentary ‘The Boys Who Sit Down to Pee’ was screened at film festivals worldwide. In All The Rooms We Met’ is his latest erotic-themed documentary work produced in 2024.
instagram.com/bonaventure_deofficial
instagram.com/b.for.beau.production
total duration about 45min
