Just fist me this Christmas
Do me underthe christmas tree (by the Nativity scene)
Leave the gifts
Just bring the Crisco
Cause Christmas means fisting to me!

Directed by Kirby Ferguson

[via Tony Comstock]

Tuesday, March 6th – 7 pm

“The Best of CineKink”
The Pioneer Theater presents a special screening of the latest hot shorts from CineKink, “the really alternative film festival.” Cutting across orientations to celebrate and explore a wide diversity of sexuality, the award-winning offerings in this year’s kink-friendly showcase include:

Best Documentary Short
WANT
Directed by Loree Erickson, 2006, Canada, 9 minutes.
Explicit images merge with everyday moments for a different – and sexy – view of disability.

Honorable Best Mention
DO YOU TAKE IT?
Directed by Kirby Ferguson, 2006 Canada, 3 minutes.
The Wet Spots ask that crucial, musical question…

Honorable Best Mention
HONEY AND BUNNY
Directed by Eva Midgley, 2004, UK, 10 minutes.
One lovely afternoon, in a place not far from you, Honey and Bunny embark on an exciting adventure.

Best Narrative Short (tie)
GUY101
Directed by Ian Gouldstone, 2005, UK, 8 minutes.
A man hears a story about a hitchhiker from the other side of the Internet.

Best Narrative Short (tie)
HITCHCOCKED
Directed by David Young, 2006, USA, 8 minutes.
A hot casual-sex encounter stirs up some surprising truths about love, life, online-dating…and danger.

Best Experimental Short
FILTHY FOOD
Directed by T. Arthur Cottam, 2006, USA, 5 minutes.
Eat it. Lick it. Suck it. Swallow it. Relax, it’s just food.

Honorable Best Mention
HOT AND BOTHERED: FEMINIST PORNOGRAPHY
Directed by Becky Goldberg, 2003, USA, 37 minutes. Includes Greta Christina, Nina Hartley, Sharon Mitchell and Tristan Taormino.

An empowering look at some of the women committed to making and supporting pornography that includes their feminist values, going up against stereotypes and sexism to get what they want.

A pizza and beer reception follows for all ticket holders.

LOCATION:
Pioneer Theater
155 E. Third Street (@ Avenue A)
NYC

ADMISSION:
$10; $6.50 seniors/students; 18+ only.

by Lauren Wissot

If there was some sort of irony in the fact that I was late to CineKink’s opening night gala because I was stuck at work, it didn’t hit me at the time. When you’re covering a proudly smut-filled film festival, tardiness due to a last-minute cross-dressing session at a house of domination is a rather bland excuse. Fortunately, I was able to catch half the set of the downright hilarious musical act The Wet Spots, with their repertoire ranging from an anti-foot fetish number (“Don’t lick my toes!”) to an anti-Bush country ditty about contraband dildos in Texas. And thus it all began on the perfect note. After all, the biggest difference between what passes for sex in mainstream cinema and what we lifestyle perverts do is we have a sense of humor about it. They fuck, while we – to use an S&m term – “play.”

Nor is it just the preponderance of black leather and velvet that causes the CineKink crowd to stand apart. The very first thing I noticed was the friendliest, most excited to be there and will bend over backwards to help you, volunteer staff I’ve ever encountered at a festival. Does director Lisa Vandever recruit from a well-trained slave pool? I wondered. And do they do dishes? And speaking of this creative force named Lisa Vandever, I was surprised to learn she also directed the trailer for her fest – one of my favorite “short films” of the program. “Sissies Gone Wild” is a brilliant parody of the “Girls Gone Wild” series, replacing the beauty pageant bimbos with middle-aged men in JonBenet drag. I especially loved the scene in which the “sissies” (old enough to have served in WWII?) send up the flag raising at Iwo Jima in pigtails and frilly panties. Take that, Clint Eastwood!

On a more serious note, the panel discussion “The State of Smut: NYC” in which NYC’s top pornographers dissected their craft, was most revealing for what it didn’t reveal. How does a pornographer survive outside of Cali’s Porn Valley? There are as many different answers as there are hardcore Jim Jarmusch’s. In fact, if one took out all references to blowjobs and double penetration, the symposium simply could have been entitled “The State of Indie Filmmaking: NYC.”

Fortunately, filmmakers of all levels and deviant stripes are represented at CineKink. Vandever’s an “equal opportunity curator” and her shorts program “Power Plays” alone represented every variety of gender, sexuality and kink. Where else can one see a lineup featuring a leather queens’ “puppy party,” a F-T-M transsexual daddy/boy duo, and a run-of-the-mill (kinky) straight couple? Not at Sundance, that’s for sure. Nor are the sissies given their fair share of the lollipops out west. At the closing night awards ceremony, I spotted one of the trailer girls – looking like a six-foot tall refugee from Alice in Wonderland – being greeted by a fan with “I really admire your work.” When I spoke to her later she revealed that she’d designed the $645 pink satin dress she was wearing, which also had been named after her. I guess sometimes the Academy’s red carpet is right under your feet.

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Lauren Wissot is a screenwriter, film journalist, critic and author specializing in S&M and male hustlers. She is the author of Under My Master’s Wings.

film, movies

NEW YORK, NY; Oct. 23, 2006 – Rounding out multiple days of screenings and parties in its fourth annual appearance, CineKink NYC announced the recipients of awards in a range of categories during the film festival’s gala closing ceremony held on Sunday, October 22, 2006.

*****
AUDIENCE CHOICE AWARDS – “CineKink Choice”
CineKink Choice awards, which go to feature-length works in competition during the festival, were determined by audience balloting at the close of each eligible work’s screening. The 2006 award winners are:

CineKink Choice Award for Best Documentary Feature:
“Vice & Consent” (Howard Scott Warshaw, 2006, USA, 56 minutes) The candor, wit and wisdom of such prominent, long-standing members of the BDSM community as Midori, Jay Wiseman, Janet Hardy, Race Bannon, Cleo Dubois and Michael Blue, help shatter some popular myths about BDSM practice and its practitioners, looking instead at the gifts of intimacy that lie within.

CineKink Choice Award for Best Narrative Feature:
“O – The Power of Submission” (Ernest Greene, 2006, USA, 160 minutes) The 1954 S/M literary classic, “The Story of O,” is updated to contemporary Los Angeles and given the hardcore treatment in this loving adaptation. Here, O is a tough and self-determined fetish photographer who is delivered by her boyfriend, Ray, to his brother Stephen’s ultra posh mansion in the hills. (Featuring Carmen Luvana, Kiley Ireland, Shayla Laveaux, Justine Joli, Adrianna Nicole, Evan Stone and Tommy Gun, with a special guest appearance by Nina Hartley.)

CineKink Choice Award – Honorable Mention:
“Webcam Girls” (Aerlyn Weissman, 2004, Canada, 52 minutes) A funny and engaging visit with four outspoken pioneers of the girlcam frontier. Ducky Doolittle seduces her cyber-fans with a heady mix of fun and sexuality. Ana Voog uses her cam as a 24/7 performance art vehicle. Dionne Lowen quit her job selling cars to open an ethical adult site. And Teresa Senft, adding her notions of biography, privacy and micro-celebrity, declares in the future “everyone will be famous to 15 people.”

JURY AWARD FOR BEST SHORTS – “CineKink Best”
CineKink Best awards, which go to short works in competition during the festival, were determined by jury deliberation and ranking. The 2006 award winners are:

**CineKink Best Narrative Short (tie):

“guy101″ (Ian Gouldstone, 2005, UK, 8 minutes)
A man hears a story about a hitchhiker from the other side of the Internet.

-and-

“Hitchcocked” (David Young, 2006, USA, 8 minutes)
A hot, casual encounter stirs up some surprising truths about love, life, online-dating…and danger.

**CineKink Best Experimental Short:
“Filthy Food” (T. Arthur Cottam, 2006, USA, 5 minutes)
Eat it. Lick it. Suck it. Swallow it. Relax, it’s just food.

**CineKink Best Documentary Short:
“Want” (Loree Erickson, 2006, Canada, 9 minutes)
Explicit images merge with everyday moments for a different – and sexy – view of disability.

**CineKink Honorable Best Mentions:

“Do You Take It?” (Kirby Ferguson, 2006 Canada, 3 minutes) The kinky cabaret duo, The Wet Spots, asks a crucial, musical question.

“Honey and Bunny” (Eva Midgley, 2004, UK, 10 minutes) One lovely afternoon, in a place not far away, Honey and Bunny embark on an exciting adventure.

“Hot and Bothered: Feminist Pornography” (Becky Goldberg, 2003, USA, 37 minutes). A look at some of the women committed to making and supporting pornography that includes their feminist values, including Greta Christina, Nina Hartley, Sharon Mitchell and Tristan Taormino.

This year’s CineKink jurors included filmmaker Francesca Rizzo, winner of a CineKink Best Award last year for her short “Sullivan’s Last Call;” Thor Stockman, creator and presenter of the popular film clip program “S/M at the Movies: The Good, The Bad and The Ridiculous;” and Bill Woods, a film festival programmer and curator of the New Filmmakers series at Anthology Film Archives.

FESTIVAL AWARD FOR EXTRAORDINARY MAINSTREAM DEPICTION OF KINK – “CineKink Tribute”
Recognizing extraordinary depiction of kink in mainstream film and television, the annual CineKink Tribute was presented to the film “Notorious Bettie Page,” for its tender portrait of the infamous pin-up icon, Bettie Page, and the people who both created and consumed the fetish imagery for which she’s best known.

Released by Picturehouse in 2006, “Notorious Bettie Page” was directed by Mary Harron from a screenplay she wrote with Guinevere Turner, and stars Gretchen Mol, Chris Bauer, Lili Taylor and David Strathairn. Producers for the film were Pamela Koffler, Katie Roumel and Christine Vachon, along with executive producer John Wells.

Honorable mentions for the CineKink Tribute went to the television series “What About Brian?” (ABC) and “The Montel Williams Show” (CBS Paramount Domestic Television), and to the documentary “This Film Is Not Yet Rated” (IFC).

Works eligible for consideration this year were those released or aired in the United States from October 1, 2005 until September 30, 2006.

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Making its fourth annual run October 17-22, 2006, CineKink NYC featured a specially selected program of films and videos that explore and celebrate a wide diversity of sexuality. Billing itself as “the really alternative film festival,” the event was presented by CineKink, an organization dedicated to the recognition and encouragement of kink-positive depictions in film and television. With offerings drawn from both Hollywood and beyond, works presented at CineKink NYC ranged from documentary to drama, camp comedy to hot pornography – and everything in between.

Selections from CineKink NYC will be featured in a traveling version of the festival, slated to appear in various cities throughout the coming year.

For more information, visit www.cinekink.com

Thanks to Jefferson.

Thanks to The Wet Spots.

Thanks to anal lovers everywhere.

(Bah-buh-bah-buh . . .)

NEW YORK, NY; Sep. 27, 2006 – CineKink NYC makes its brazen return on Tuesday, October 17th, featuring a specially curated program of films and videos that explore and celebrate a wide diversity of sexuality. In addition to screenings, plans for the fourth annual festival also include a short film competition, audience choices awards and presentation of the annual CineKink Tribute, all sandwiched between a gala kick-off and a grand finale “afterglow” party.

Billing itself as “the really alternative film festival,” the event will run October 17-22, 2006. Presented by CineKink, an organization dedicated to the recognition and encouragement of kink-positive depictions in film and television, works presented at CineKink NYC will range from documentary to drama, mildly spicy to quite explicit – and everything in between.

“It feels as if CineKink has finally ‘popped’ this year, that we’ve definitely come into our own,” says Lisa Vandever, CineKink’s co-founder and director. “First off, the number and range of the films and videos submitted was yet another leap up from before. And the level of interest we’re receiving is just incredibly gratifying.”

The festivities begin Tuesday, October 17, at 8 PM, with a kick-off gala to be held at Bacchus (515 W. 29th Street, NYC), featuring a performance by The Wet Spots, the cabaret duo renowned for such melodious marvels as “Bi-Curious George,” “Piggy Pile” and their internet music video smash hit, “Do You Take It?”

The festival then moves to Anthology Film Archives (32 Second Avenue, NYC), Wednesday, October 18 through Saturday, October 21, with several different film and video programs scheduled for each day. CineKink NYC concludes on Sunday, October 22, at 7 PM with an Awards Celebration, featuring encore screenings of jury-selected best shorts from the week and presentation of the festival’s annual awards, to be followed at 8:3O PM by an Afterglow Party, one last chance for like-minded festival-goers to meet and mingle (Bacchus; 515 W. 29, NYC).

For more information and advance tickets, visit http://www.cinekink.com.

Seen today at Fleshbot, a fairly massive walk/shutout at Suicide Girls — I’ve been getting emails from my friends who are (now) former SG models for about a week about the “ghosting” of models, and trying to follow the posts here (*update: this link has gone down, sorry) and here and here. I’ve always had misgivings about their reluctance to get anywhere near the word “porn”, as that strikes me as oh-so-odd for an alterna chick nudie site. But wow, what a mess. I wonder if it’ll change their podcast, Suicide Girls Radio… will one girl have to do a bunch of different voices until they re-stock their cupboards? Here’s a snippet from UnPink:

“…Even as SG expanded from 10 girls to 800, these remained the stars. Until, the last few days, half of them, very publicly, quit.

Here’s the score. (more…)