CineKink Kinky Film Festival Tour Returns to Portland / Tuesday, August 8
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Kinky Film Festival Tour Returns to Portland
CineKink: PDX / Tuesday, August 8
New York, NY; July 13, 2017 – A special evening of films that celebrate and explore a wide diversity of sexuality will screen on Tuesday, August 8, 2017 as CineKink, “the kinky film festival,” returns to Portland for a hot, one-night stand.
At 7 PM, BEST OF CINEKINK/2017 is a collection of sexy shorts deemed the best during CineKink’s most recent festival run. This year’s assortment, with works ranging from mildly spicy to quite explicit, includes an animated trip to the erotic book section, a swinger hook-up gone slightly awry, and a surreal, kink-filled journey set in New York’s infamous Chelsea Hotel. The line-up features ‘Tabook’ (Dario van Vree), ‘Like Totally Hot Couple Seeking Same’ (Marcel Simoneau & Kirsten Russell), ‘Trinity’ (Ms. Naughty), ‘The Hutong Vibe’ (Fan Popo), ‘The Erotic Dreams of the Chelsea Hotel’ (Tony Notarberardino & Cassandra Rosebeetle) and, from Portland filmmaker Robin Vada, a mingling of taut bondage and classical music, ‘Vibrato.’
And at 9 PM, KINK & COMMUNITY offers a short film sampling of the many predilections that make up the world of kink – and a CineKink award-winning look at the museum that strives to document them all. Selections in this program include ’Spank You Very Much’ (Thomas Florek),’Folsom Street'(Aron Kantor), You’ve Got Tail (Danny Tayara), Playing Scrabble (Jessie Sparkles, Paradoxipus & The Linguist), Coming of Age (Jan Soldat), Please May I Come Mistress? (Pandora Blake) and By The People: 25 Years Of Community Archiving at Leather Archives & Museum (Christina Court).
Both screenings will take place at the Clinton Street Theater (2522 SE Clinton St.), and each will be followed by a brief discussion with attending filmmakers.
Admission is $10 door/$8 advance per screening, $15 door/$12 advance for both; 18 and over only.
CineKink: PDX is presented in conjunction with Oregon Leather Pride, which runs August 4-14, 2017. The CineKink festival tour is sponsored by Bowery Bliss, National Coalition for Sexual Freedom, Leather Archives and Museum, and njoy, with additional local support from KinkFest, The Mystery Box Show and She Bop.
For more information and advance tickets, visit http://dev.cinekink.com/programs-and-events/tour/tour-2017/pdx/
About CineKink:
Now in its 14th season, CineKink is an annual film festival and national screening tour that celebrates and explores the wide diversity of sexuality. Presented by CineKink, an organization dedicated to the recognition and encouragement of sex-positive and kink-friendly depictions in film and television, works showcased by the festival range from documentary to drama, spicy to explicit – and everything in between! For more information, visit http://dev.cinekink.com.
Keywords: CineKink, Lisa Vandever, kink film festival, fetish film festival, erotic film festival, Portland, Clinton Street Theater
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CINEKINK: PDX – 2017
individual film descriptions
** Tuesday, August 8 – 7:00 PM
BEST OF CINEKINK/2017
A collection of sexy shorts deemed the best during CineKink’s most recent festival run. This year’s assortment, with works ranging from documentary to drama, comedy to experimental, mildly spicy to quite explicit, includes:
Best Musical Short
FOLSOM STREET
A kink and fetish-fueled dance explosion in celebration of the Folsom Street Fair.
(Directed by Aron Kantor, 2015, USA, 6 minutes.)
Best Animated Short
TABOOK
While browsing the bookstore, Gwen is unexpectedly drawn to a volume of kinky erotica. (Directed by Dario van Vree, 2016, The Netherlands, 3 minutes.)
Best Comedy Short
LIKE TOTALLY HOT COUPLE SEEKING SAME
Isabelle and Jean Luc are a normal, uptight, Parisian couple in search of a way to spice up their marriage. So they travel to the one place in the world known for its debauchery… Williamsburg, Brooklyn. (Directed by Marcel Simoneau & Kirsten Russell, 2015, USA, 17 minutes.)
Honorable Best Mention
TRINITY
“Sometimes in a relationship you need to shake things up a bit.” (Directed by Ms. Naughty, 2017, USA, 6 minutes.)
Honorable Best Mention
THE HUTONG VIBE
Two women meet in a B&B along a hutong, or alley, in Beijing. One of them acts unfriendly and bashful, the other is bold and flirty. What will happen when they get closer and closer? Part performance, part documentary, and purportedly the first feminist porn out of China. (Directed by Fan Popo, 2016, China, 19 minutes.)
Best Dramatic Short
THE EROTIC DREAMS OF THE CHELSEA HOTEL
A sumptuous and erotic journey in the legendary Chelsea Hotel, as a mysterious woman is led by a voyeuristic man through a series of sexual experiences involving several eccentric characters. (Directed by Tony Notarberardino & Cassandra Rosebeetle, 2016, USA, 30 minutes.)
Total program running time is 81 minutes.
** Tuesday, August 8 – 9:00 PM
KINK & COMMUNITY (Shorts Program)
There are many tastes and predilections that make up the world of kink. Here, a sampling of just a few …and the museum that strives to document them all.
Best Musical Short
FOLSOM STREET
A kink and fetish-fueled dance explosion in celebration of the Folsom Street Fair. (Directed by Aron Kantor, 2015, USA, 6 minutes.)
SPANK YOU VERY MUCH
An original song celebrating the joys of spanking. (Directed by Thomas Florek, 2016, USA, 3 minutes.)
YOU’VE GOT TAIL
A mail carrier is in for a salty surprise. The pups at this house are a little friendlier than he was expecting… (Directed by Danny Tayara, 2016, USA, 4 minutes. Stars Ari Chivukula, Azure Blank, Foster Larson (Pup Kero) and Wolf Pup Tibor.)
PLAYING SCRABBLE
A couple explores their fantasies through a very kinky game of scrabble.
(Directed by Jessie Sparkles, Paradoxipus & The Linguist, 2016, USA, 5 minutes.)
COMING OF AGE
The planned Daddy-Son-Afternoon turns into a conversation about male role models – until the roles get fixed again. (Directed by Jan Soldat, 2016, Germany, 13 minutes.)
PLEASE MAY I COME MISTRESS?
A gorgeously intimate scene of loving dominance and orgasm control between two real-life BDSM play partners. (Directed by Pandora Blake, 2016, United Kingdom, 17 minutes. Features Charlie J Forrest and Zak Jane Keir.)
Best Documentary Short
BY THE PEOPLE: 25 YEARS OF COMMUNITY ARCHIVING AT LEATHER ARCHIVES & MUSEUM
Illustrates the rise of The Leather Archives & Museum (LA&M), from a co-founder’s Midwestern basement to the professional institution it is today…all thanks to the ongoing efforts of those within the communities that LA&M represents. Demonstrates how professional archiving and public display of alternative sex and culture materials are acts of activism, and a path toward ending the stigma and shame that many in mainstream society often seek to place on those with kinky inclinations.
(Directed by Christina Court, 2016, USA, 39 minutes.)