Celebrating Diversity in the Sex Industry #1

We create, and we celebrate ourselves as sex workers”

In the two-part section presenting artistic practices within the sex work, we focus on the celebration of diversity in the sex industry. The film selection includes: intersections of fatness in productions such as “Hunger” and “Eroticam,” living with disability in “Risk”, queer in most of the films, and the perspective of BIPOC in the film on AfroDisiac, who shares her journey to queer porn and deplores the under-representation of blacks and lesbians, among others. In “Under The Red Umbrella” we meet a self-employed sexworker who talks about important issues such as workers’ rights, need for recognition and the meaning of being a part of a community. We also present the first (and perhaps only?) Polish porn film with a translation for Deaf people, prepared by Owiaks Couple. JorgeTheObscene will tell us about sexuality from a male perspective. There will also be camp in the two parts of the cult series “Kuzyneczki” featuring Sylvia Baudelaire – a transgender singer known for such hits as “patriarchy” or “fuck my pussy”. A collective from Spain will serve up an enthralling manifesto attempting to get rid of stigma, trauma, shame, and fear. We will see really hot content in “Ice Cream Fun” by cam model Kitty Tease, “You’re so vain”, or a film featuring domination by Demoness Luna and Evil Woman. And for balance, a moving video essay full of mesmerising, oneiric frames – you won’t be able to look away, even if you wanted to. We mix post pornography with mainstream pornography designed for the male gaze. But is that really the case? To what extent is the film created by who is watching? Can porn be a tool for creating new forms of independence in a hostile, capitalist, and patriarchal world?

Selection, description and Q&A: Aleksandra Kluczyk