>CineKink: San Francisco

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Nov 172009
 

>Now that we’ve rested up from Berlin, we’re hitting the circuit again. This time it’s almost like heading home, as we’re welcomed once again by the wonderfully hospitable Yerba Buena Center for the Arts for another round of CineKink: San Francisco.

Cutting across orientations to celebrate and explore a wide diversity of sexuality, film and video offerings in this kink-friendly, traveling showcase range from documentary to drama, camp comedy to hot porn, mildy spicy to quite explicit – and everything in between.

Thursday, November 19th – Saturday, November 21st
Yerba Buena Center for the Art
701 Mission Street (@ Third)
San Francisco

Along for the ride will be:

Kinky
A light-hearted, yet thought-provoking look at issues affecting the sexuality of Black Americans (and playing with San Francisco director Erin Palmquist’s BDSM: It’s Not What You Think)

Whips & Restraints
A kinky collection of shorts that dip into the toy-bag and play with the dynamics of sexual power and release, control and submission.

Lipsticks & Crinoline
A colorfully pansexual mash-up of gender frolics, blurred boundaries, several pairs of Lycra bicycle shorts–and some very high style!

Wanton Female Desires
An exploration and celebration of the female pleasure and the varied, delightful pursuits of such.

The Auteur
A mélange of romantic comedy and raunchy satire set in the world of adult film, the story of renowned porn director Arturo Domingo, the creative genius behind classics like Five Easy Nieces and Requiem for a Wet Dream.

Best of CineKink/2009 Shorts Sampler
A special sampling of some of the hot shorts deemed the very best of CineKink, with jury-selected awards determined during the latest run of our annual festival.

We’ve been hearing a lot of buzz, so get your tickets now. And we’ll see you at Yerba!

>Blurb-o-rama!

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Jan 242007
 

>Fresh from our final, sell-out screenings at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, we’re finally back from San Francisco with some great memories, a few new friends, several extra pounds – and a nice batch of blurbs for the collection:

“More like Wild Kingdom than Girls Gone Wild, the CineKink 2007 series …neutrally observes sexual transgression: the forms it takes, the relief it offers, and the privacy it (often jubilantly) breaches.”
– Sara Schieron, San Francisco Bay Guardian

“CineKink’s entries are often injected with a refreshing dose of camp and playfulness…Equal parts raunchy and sexy, the festival succeeds because it never loses sight of sex’s potential for absurdity and transcendence.”
– Nirmala Nataraj, SF Weekly

“Seeing all those body parts at the AVN expo is analogous to the separation between sex and sensuality evident in AVN’s typical lineup of winners. We’re only going to find sexual authenticity and really hot porn when we reconnect those parts to actual people, like those behind the indie efforts found at CineKink.”
– Violet Blue, SF Gate

(And there’s more. Speaking of yours truly, CineKinkster ourselves, Violet Blue also deems us a “…superlative blog.” We’re totally blushing!)

Thanks for the kind words. And thanks to YBCA, film/video curator Joel Shepard and all of you who came out for the SF screenings, for such a fabulous welcome.

>Breaking out our San Francisco values

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Jan 162007
 

>Now that the Dems have sorta climbed kinda back on top in the national power exchange – and in advance of our pending trip to the left coast for CineKink SF – we thought it high time we check in with Speaker of the House!!! Nancy Pelosi, for a brief overview of customary San Francisco values:

Oh, crap. What was that again?!? Palisades? Um, Palermo?

Hope to see you there!

>Open your golden gates!

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Jan 042007
 

>Seems like we just got home, but it’s almost time to pack our bags again and head for that city by the bay, where the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts welcomes us (back!) for another round of CineKink: San Francisco.

Cutting across orientations to celebrate and explore a wide diversity of sexuality, film and video offerings in this kink-friendly, traveling showcase range from documentary to drama, camp comedy to hot porn, mildy spicy to quite explicit – and everything in between.

Thursday, January 18th – Saturday, January 20th

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
701 Mission Street (@ Third)
San Francisco

The locals seem to have a voracious appetite for our kinky bits and we’ve enjoyed several sell-outs in the past, so get your tickets now.

(And if you happen to be looking for something worthy to do the weekend before, be sure to check out YCBA’s presentation of Jean Genet – Kenneth Anger… featuring all-new 35mm prints!)