CINEKINK: SAN FRANCISCO
Nov 19–21
CineKink is back! We present CineKink: San Francisco, a touring version of "the kinky film festival," which is held annually in NYC. Cutting across orientations to celebrate and explore a wide diversity of sexuality, the six screenings in this traveling showcase range from documentary to drama, camp comedy to erotica, mildly spicy to quite explicit—and everything in between.
$5 discount ticket w/ your Big Idea Night
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Thu, Nov 19: Kinky
Thu, Nov 19: Whips & Restraint
Fri, Nov 20: Lipsticks & Crinoline
Fri, Nov 20: Wanton Female Desire
Sat, Nov 21: The Auteur
Sat, Nov 21: Best of Cinekink / 2009 Shorts Sampler
Thu, Nov 19, 7 pm
Kinky
By A. Benjamin
Kinky won the Audience Choice Award for Documentary Feature. This sometimes light-hearted, thought-provoking look at issues affecting the sexuality of black Americans touches on religion, racism and relationships as it delves into the world of bondage, fetish and BDSM. Preceded by BDSM: It's Not What You Think by Erin Palmquist.
Thu, Nov 19, 9 pm
Whips & Restraint
A kinky collection of shorts that dip into the toy-bag and play with the dynamics of sexual power and release, control and submission. Program includes Gravuren DeSade by John Campbell; Butler by Erik Rosenlund; In the Closet by Hungry Heart; 20 Licks by Joseph S. Valle; Valley of the Dommes by John Le Brocq; Serving Madame Gina by Gabriele Hoff; and Kink Inc. by Casey Clark.
Fri, Nov 20, 7 pm
Lipsticks & Crinoline
A colorfully pansexual mash-up of gender frolics, blurred boundaries, several pairs of Lycra bicycle shorts - and some very high style! Works include Miss Jezebel's Feathers by Jesse Miksic; Dorian: A Picture by Joe E. Jeffreys; Pritch and Panch Do... The Cinderfella Experience at Miss Vera's Finishing School by Dylan Wynn Davies; and The Tour de Pants by Luke Woodward.
Fri, Nov 20, 9 pm
Wanton Female Desire
What is it that a woman wants? Most of the answers are infinitely varied, but the shorts in this celebration of female pleasure will help guide you in one generally appropriate direction. Program includes Teat Beat of Sex: 8-11 by Signe Baumane; My Favorite Time of the Day by Mike Hallett; Barcelona Sex Project: Irina by Erika Lust; Case 1112: Forty is the New 14 by Vena Virago; Strap-On Motel by Maria Beatty (excerpt); and Matinee by Jennifer Lyon Bell.
Sat, Nov 21, 7 pm
The Auteur
By James Westby
The Auteur won the Audience Choice Award for Narrative Feature. A mélange of romantic comedy and raunchy satire set in the world of adult film, this is the story of renowned porn director Arturo Domingo, the creative genius behind classics like Five Easy Nieces and Requiem for a Wet Dream, who has arrived in Portland to receive a Lifetime Achievement award at a film festival. Plays with the darkly comic short Je dis non, Ali by Jim Eshom.
Sat, Nov 21, 9 pm
Best of Cinekink / 2009 Shorts Sampler
If you can only make it to one screening, this is the one, a special sampling of some of the hot shorts deemed by a jury to be the very best of CineKink. Program includes At the Porno Shop by Michael Rehfield; Teat Beat of Sex: 8-11 by Signe Baumane; Un Piede di Roman Polanski by Lauren Wissot & Rosanne Kapitoa; Erotic Moments by Eva Midgley; Belle de Nature by Maria Beatty; Rubberheart by Brian Crano; and Kink Inc. by Casey Clark. Note that some of these shorts have shown in earlier programs.