Poles of Pleasure #1 (BDSM)

Strategies of telling stories about pleasure that including ‘limit experiences’ invariably enjoy great interest of festival goers. Thanks to the support of Fetish Chateau, you’ll have a chance to enjoy them in two independent sections exploring the limits of sexual pleasure. In these sections we present films created on the independent and artistic BDSM scene, which enjoys increasingly bold presence of queer artists who expand the visual code of this kind of practice and expand the ways of interpreting it, often creating works of entirely new quality even if it remains firmly anchored in the broad field of “bondage – discipline – sadism – masochism.” In Poles of Pleasure (BDSM) 1 you can see the cool “Plexus” (Ben Berlin), let yourself be carried away by the harsh but sensitive “Melisma” (Sadie Luna) and the reflective, interestingly set in the context of nature “The Edge of the Maipo river” (Fernando Herrad). You will be surprised by the formally exciting “Over the knee” (Babie) realised by a collective of trans people with disabilities. Each of the shorts presented in this section deserves attention and fits into a wide range of practices that have long been part of the sexual counterculture.