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Smudge Cinema presents:
in collaboration with Julia Zinn,
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Alook at what happens when vintage queer erotica is projected on a wall for people to watch. Smudge Cinema’s Tour de Porn is a smorgasbord of pornographic film spanning decades, genres, and legalities.
In our first installment, Part X: SAFETY FIST, we’re looking to explore the work of queer pornographic filmmakers in the years surrounding the AIDS pandemic. For decades, queer pornographic filmmakers contributed to cinema in numerous ways, including, but not limited to innovations in performance, editing, sound, and design. Distributing directly to porn theaters, such as Chicago’s Bijou Theater (1970-2015), filmmakers explored sex and cinema in feature length pieces, at times pushing stylistically into the experimental and avant-garde.
While government and nation-wide media willfully ignored the lives of everyone vulnerable to HIV transmission, some queer filmmakers took it upon themselves to educate their audiences with comprehensive safer sex material. These efforts ranged from startlingly sexy to hilarious, but all contributed to an increasingly complex cultural language of health and intimacy.
Additionally, S&M culture is wildly under-credited for advancing our understanding of consent, with performers engaging in various practices that required in-depth communication and mutual satisfaction.
Still, many filmmakers were not interested in education, opting for straight up smut, instead. At a time when many people avoided kissing or touching HIV+ people and significant portions of the population considered quarantines for queer people, some hardcore performers chose to freely engage with blood and semen.
SAFETY FIST is a collection of clips and shorts from Fatale Media & other '90s dyke & queer porn, inventive & fetish safer sex clips from Surge Studio videos and Greg Bordowitz (of ACT UP), Michael Goodwin's Goodjac series, and instructional S/M porn & brutal/weird S/M porn from the Slave & Master series, among other sweet treats.
Future installments in this series will delve into the psychedelic and avant-garde as well as the work of some titans of the gay pornographic industry of the 60's and 70's.
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poster:
top left: Safe Desire /top right: High Tech / bottom left: Rope That Works / bottom right: Suburban Dykes
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While government and nation-wide media willfully ignored the lives of everyone vulnerable to HIV transmission, some queer filmmakers took it upon themselves to educate their audiences with comprehensive safer sex material. These efforts ranged from startlingly sexy to hilarious, but all contributed to an increasingly complex cultural language of health and intimacy.
Additionally, S&M culture is wildly under-credited for advancing our understanding of consent, with performers engaging in various practices that required in-depth communication and mutual satisfaction.
Still, many filmmakers were not interested in education, opting for straight up smut, instead. At a time when many people avoided kissing or touching HIV+ people and significant portions of the population considered quarantines for queer people, some hardcore performers chose to freely engage with blood and semen.
SAFETY FIST is a collection of clips and shorts from Fatale Media & other '90s dyke & queer porn, inventive & fetish safer sex clips from Surge Studio videos and Greg Bordowitz (of ACT UP), Michael Goodwin's Goodjac series, and instructional S/M porn & brutal/weird S/M porn from the Slave & Master series, among other sweet treats.
Future installments in this series will delve into the psychedelic and avant-garde as well as the work of some titans of the gay pornographic industry of the 60's and 70's.
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