It’s billed as a celebration of sexuality in art and this weekend, Porny Days film festival will attempt to convert a corner of East London to its subversive pornographic cinema. The festival is a Zurich based enterprise, aimed at celebrating subversive, queer and consenting positions in pornography rather than the mainstream norms.
Snappily titled Porny Peanut (on account of taking place at the Peanut Factory, Hackney Wick) the festival will include a number of shorts by Portuguese London based filmmaker Antonio De Silva, who specialises in snapshots of gay subcultures and sexy celebrations of the male form. Two of De Silvas’ films, Daddies – about the sex lives of older gay men in San Francisco – and Dancers – in which 25 professionals dance and undress for the camera – will screen.
Riffing on a theme of consensual and educational porn will be Crashpad’s Guide to Fisting, which aims to do exactly as it says on the tin as a lesbian couple watches and then performs the act. And in a demonstration that pornography has been around as long as there were ways to film it, the Institute of Incoherent Cinematography will present a 60-minute compilation of American and French sex flicks from the silent film era. And in case there’s any awkward silences, an x rated live music performance by The Edge of August will take place during that screening.
At the Peanut Factory, Hackney Wick Sat 15th August from 7pm pornydays.ch
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Photography Gabriel S. Delgado C. via Flickr