The Porny Days Film Festival runs November 27th to 29th in Zurich. Movies and Zurich art archive sexuality, love, gender, physicality, and pornography. In addition to the film program, there are also performances, debates, and panels.

Festivities include a screening of Shine Louise Houston’s films (see event listing and get tickets) and a panel featuring one of Pink & White’s producers and performers, Syd Blakovich.

Saturday, November 28th, 20:30

SHINE LOUISE HOUSTON

“There is power in creating images, and for a woman of color and a queer to take that power … I do not find it exploitative; I think it’s Necessary.” ~ Shine Louise Houston

Shine Louise Houston is one of the pioneers of lesbian / queer porn and still is the benchmark when it comes to queer Pornfilm. As a producer (Pink & White Productions) and director she has done in recent years a significant contribution to diversifying the Californian porn production. Her training as a filmmaker, she completed at the San Francisco Arts Institute and then worked at the Good Vibrations sex toy suppliers. At this time, she realized that there is a great demand for alternative pornography.

PUT the NEEDLE on the RECORD

Shine Louise Houston
USA 2014 Softcore Fiction, 9 min
English

Remember that one person from high school… so hot EVERYONE wanted to fuck them, but no one dare try? For these four friends that person was Samantha, and as they get high and spin vinyl, one of them claims to remember her just a bit better than the others. Terry lifts the narrative needle, but are they just looking to repeat a past track, or get into a new groove? A soft-core short film by Shine Louise Houston.

Full Film Online: PUT the NEEDLE on the RECORD

HEAVENLY SPIRE: Jack Hammer & Jessie Sparkles

Shine Louise Houston
USA 2011, Documentary, 11 min
English

Rough, anonymous sex with little negotiation occupy Jessie’s fantasies of late and the strong and muscular Jack Hammer is all the more willing to oblige.

Full Film Online: HEAVENLY SPIRE: Jack Hammer & Jessie Sparkles

BED PARTY: Eden Alexander and Sebastian Keys

Shine Louise Houston
USA 2014 Fiction, 6 min
English

BED PARTY flips the porno script with a “Porno Vérité” documentary style look behind the private doors of porn’s public performers. Well-known within the kink community, Eden Alexander and Sebastian Keys have found love and beautifully sordid sex in their queer and pansexual relationship.

Full film online: BED PARTY: Eden Alexander and Sebastian Keys

CrashPad’s Guide to Fisting

Shine Louise Houston
USA 2014 Fiction, 28 min
English

Queer porn meets sex ed in CrashPad’s Guide to Fisting, the first “experts guide” to feature the sensual and consensual act of fisting. Starring Lorelei Lee and Beretta James, the short educational sex film offers a beginners’ introduction from the perspective of a lesbian couple watching CrashPadSeries.com episodes.

Full film online: CrashPad’s Guide to Fisting

 
Saturday, November 28th 16:00

Dot.com-Shot: Interactive Panel

Following the motto “Everybody does it, but nobody talks about it – come, see and speak” raises the Panel DOT.COM-SHOT light into the darkness surrounding the phenomenon of online pornography and asks why 80% of porn content is monopolized by a large company in Luxembourg; with producer and actress Syd Blakovich (Pink & White Productions) and Ramon Reichert (Professor of Media Studies at the University of Vienna / Author The Porn Identity Expeditions into the Dark Zone).

For more information about Porny Days, visit pornydays.ch.