Kissable Screens: 'Cruising the City' by Porn Film Festival Amsterdam
After the blessed Porn Film Festival Amsterdam last month, we have the opportunity to revisit some of the programs at Cavia.
Cruising the City brings 5 short films that reclaim the city through sex and sexuality. Parties, apps, parks, cinemas, public toilets, darkrooms. All these places and more offer opportunities to check out strangers and make a connection. Many cities are faced with the prospect of being made more enticing by ”cleaning up” the zones where unscripted interactions are created. Enticing for whom? Whether we’re looking for love or just a quick hookup, the unnoticed corners and unrefined edges offer us endless opportunities to push back against the smoothing of urban areas by joining other strangers and actualizing our fantasies together.
cucumber/knife
Gustavo Vinagre | 2024 | Brazil | 17’
From the Teddy Award-winning director of Three Tidy Tigers Tied a Tie Tighter (Frameline45), Joana (Thaís de Almeida Prado), a non-binary person with a vagina, meets Xtopher (Hilton Dresden), an effeminate gay man, in the FKK area (aka the nudity-permitted area) of a Berlin lake. Then, they decide to go to the cruising area together, where they experience new sensations.
Turkish Hammam
Yavuz Kurtulmus | 2024 | Austria & Turkey | 16’
Turkish Hammam" is a poignant, erotic tale of forbidden love between two men set against the bustling backdrop of Istanbul's traditional hammams. The film delves into the challenges of a relationship suppressed by societal prejudices, yet held together by the universal forces of love and attraction. Told through furtive glances and quiet moments, this narrative transcends physical intimacy, speaking through the silence of its characters.
Klappe
Matt Lambert | 2022 | Germany | 18’
The nightclub scene in Berlin is known for its freedom and sexiness—the place to leave your inhibitions behind and let your inner desires take over. There's something so intuitively primal about learning about someone through their glance, scent, taste, and the feeling of being literally inside each other before anything else. There's a magic to this queered inversion of intimacy—fuck first, then meet.
Top Secret
JorgeTheObscene, The Filthy Juan and Amadalia Liberté | 2024 | Germany | 5’
HasenheideCumDump69000#devoted and HairyDomTopHoleDestroyer_225 are apparently the perfect match for a hot passionate sex-date; however, during the encounter their deepest and most honest desires will be unveiled. Three Chilean creators and pornographers meet at a Porn Film Festival; eager to create, they share their passions and skills to unify them and continue doing what they love: fucking and filming themselves while doing it.
Plenum im Tuntenhaus
Lasse Långström | 2024 | Germany & Sweden | 13’
The district administration has cut down trees and put up lights in the cruising area in Volkspark Hasenheide. The antifa faggots plan to fight back against this heterosexist attack. But is the text in their campaign poster too academic? It's going to be a long plenum…
