Whorehouse Cinema
queer.red presents! proudly returns with a second, expanded edition of their film and arts festival that celebrates the creativity of sex workers. This year, the program focuses on queer and trans sex workers, featuring a photography archive, an art exhibition, workshops by and for sex workers, a sharp selection of films and shorts, and a cabaret with performers from across the Netherlands and France.
INFO
Date | 29th of March
Location | Cinetol Zaal & Etage + Tolbar
Passe Partouts [access to all films in the programme] | €46,25 | link
Individual film tickets | €11,25 [see links below]
Workshops & performances | priced separately [see events at queer.red]
content warning | These films contain sexual contact and strong language. 18+.
[* ticketprices include €1,25 service costs]
PROGRAMME
12:00 | Sex worker art exhibition
12:00 | workshop: online sex work 101
13:00 | Solo: film + intro
14:45 | double feature: Longue Vie Aux Putes & Four Seasons Brothel + Q&A
15:30 | four chambers special: various films by Vex Ashley
16:30 | workshop: a guided qleasure practice
16:45 | porn shorts: intro by María Riot + Q&A with filmmakers
22:00 | queer.red presents! Whorehouse Cabaret: performance night
Workshop: online sex work 101
Online Sex Work 101 (SW-only workshop)
by Jaq Quicksilver
Online sex work has exploded in popularity (and profits) since 2020. Kick-start your digital business by learning the basics of fan sites and clip creation, establishing and growing your brand, safety, and staying compliant with the law.
This workshop will be in English, is SW-only and offers space for max 12 participants.
-INFO-Location | EtageTimes | 12:00-15:00Tickets | Donation (suggested sliding scale €0-20) | online registration required
Solo: film + intro
Solo
Andrés Valenzuela Arellano | Chile | 2025 | 63 min | Spanish with English subs
SOLO invites us into the world of Ed, an erotic performer from Chile. Under an explosion of neon lights and desire, Andrés Valenzuela Arellano weaves fluidity and explicit intimacy into an expanded experience. More than cinema, it’s an invitation to break taboos and push boundaries.
This film will be introduced by Porn Film Festival Amsterdam which aims to create a safe and accessible space where marginalised voices can be heard, and where the community can come together to explore, reclaim and celebrate their autonomy and art.
-INFO-Location | ZaalTimes | 13:00-14:15Tickets | €11,25* | link
Double Feature: Longue Vie Aux Putes & Four Seasons Brothel + Q&A
Longue Vie Aux Putes (Hurrah the Whores!)
Alya Kara | France | 2023 | 45 min | French with English subs
A closed encounter with a stigmatised community, constantly pushed to the margins: independent sex workers.
This film has mention of sexual violence and suicide.
Four Seasons Brothel
Kiddo Leone | Belgium | 2024 | 30 min | French with English subs
As a sex worker, fighting against invisibility is a daily struggle. A longing for witness has impulsed this movie to turn into a kaleidoscopic documentary-vlog. Here’s four sex workers journey from their prep rituals to their after work rituals, passing through their way to work and a work session.
-INFO-Location | ZaalTimes | 14:45-16:15Tickets | €11,25* | link
Four Chambers Special: various films by Vex Ashley
Four Chambers is a name that keeps popping up at every SW and porn festival we visit. So we looked into who is behind this project and it turned out to be the very talented porn performer, director and filmmaker Vex Ashley. With a art school and photography background, as well as digital sex work online, Four Chambers became a project, an idea and an ongoing collaboration with the intention to explore the aesthetic and conceptual potential of pornography as a creative medium for ideas. We handpicked several of their works as examples of some exquisite DIY works with high-end aesthetic production value from a community perspective.
Two of Swords
UK | 2022 | 13 min
An occult homoerotic Bacchanalia ritual or a sweaty 3am club fuck.
Archetype
UK | 2019 | 13 min
Being pushed to the margins means you’re forced to make new rules and create your own visions, processes and traditions. Porn world developed its own visual language, signs and semiotics.
A Cyborg Manifesto
UK | 2020 | 5 min
Originally commissioned by The Museum of Sex for the CAM LIFE exhibition, ‘A Cyborg Manifesto’ is a visual essay and a personal exploration of a life spent online.
Proximity IV
UK | 11 min
The Proximity series was really where the project started. It aims to replicate the intensity of a sexual connection by bringing the camera in.
-INFO-Location | ZaalTimes | 15:30-16:15Tickets | €11,25* | link
Workshop: a guided qleasure practice
A guided qleasure practice (SW-only workshop)
by GiA G
In a guided qleasure practice we will research, uncover and practice the relationship we have to qleausure. Qleasure or queer pleasure breaks boundaries, borders and binaries. There is no norm, no right way, no wrong way, only your way. Qleasure states we are all experts when it comes to our own pleasure, we just need some time and space to figure it out sometimes. During this practice, we will focus on the individual relationship(s) we have to pleasure.This workshop is focused on the relationship with your own body, not those of others.
This workshop will be in English, is SW-only and offers space for max 20 participants.
-INFO-Location | EtageTimes | 16:30-19:30Tickets | Donation (suggested sliding scale €0-20) | online registration required
Porn shorts: intro by María Riot + Q&A with filmmakers
This film programme will be introduced by María Riot: an Argentinian sex worker, sex workers’ rights activist, intimacy coordinator and artist.
A Quick Fix
Colorblock Films, April Flores Films, Praline Studio | Germany | 2024 | 7 min | English
Housewife April Flores’ washing machine breaks down. When dykey plumber Manon Praline arrives, April turns on her bimbo charm, and reveals her real intentions.
Cane
Bendix Mignon | Germany | 2024 | 5 min
A short queer porn film which celebrates crip sex. “Cane” is an intimate red-hot crip-sexy hip-grinding rhythmic conversation of a person and their cane.
Bang Gang Click
Hardwerk | Germany | 2021| 17 min | English
For her first ever gang bang and first facial on film, lead performer Maria Riot and the filmmakers reimagined the figure of the bossy (and generally male) photographer with a much-needed shift on the gender axis, allowing Maria to take the lead in quite literally staging her own fantasy.
No Man Like Me
Jaq Quicksilver | USA | 2023 | 4 min | English
So you’re bicurious.... Big deal. Get online, you can be sucking dick or getting fucked within an hour – if that’s what you really want to do. It’s one of the easiest things on earth to do. ...But instead you’re here with me. Let’s explore why that is.
Reclamation
Oran Julius | USA | 2022 | 6 min | English
Three friends gather on the solstice to practice a healing ritual involving messaging, fists, and hot wax.
Vice VersaJulian Curico | France/Germany | 2022 | 20 min
Dancing towards his prey, Jamal is ready for his long awaited opening...
-INFO-Location | ZaalTimes | 16:45-18:00Tickets | €11,25* | link
queer.red presents! Whorehouse Cabaret: performance night
Sex Workers Who Changed History Fashion Show
by SAVE and Trans Sisters
We roll out the red carpet for ourselves, start the music and our historical fashion show begins! In the media, sex workers are usually depicted as victims, we tell the stories of heroes and heroines. Sex workers who rebelled, who fought for women and queer rights, who fought against slavery. Sex workers who made history!
The Sewers of Heterosexuality
by Marianne Chargois
In the underground of the triumphant heterosexual world, dissidents develop autonomous economic systems, where toxic masculinities are expressed through alternative sexual practices. The sewers of heterosexuality are overflowing as armies of whores on the move crack the old established world.
The performance takes place in front of a screen depicting images of Marianne’s work in medical BDSM.
Le Bal des Putes (The Hookers Ball)
by Kata Loba with Djombo Goddess, Olivia Verner, Malena and La Baphomette
This show is a love letter to the sx worker community. Through dance, singing, fire handling and comedy we explore the politics of the body, the power dynamics in human relationships and honor the fights for our rights. Le bal des putes is queer and feminist. It is a living art form halfway between play, documentary and cabaret.
-INFO-Location| ZaalTimes | 22:00-01:00Tickets | €7,5 – €20 (tiered tickets) | link
Praktische informatie
Deze show is rolstoeltoegankelijk. Heb je verder vragen over de toegankelijkheid van Cinetol, lukt het niet om online een kaartje te kopen of heb je een andere vraag? Bel ons op 020 248 0186, we zijn bereikbaar op kantoordagen tussen 10:00 – 18:00. Per mail contact opnemen kan ook via info@cinetol.nl.
