Short Film at Seattle Erotic Art Festival

Seattle Erotic Art Festival is proud to partner again with Three Dollar Bill Cinema in creating a Short Film Exhibition for 2012.

“We’re excited to continue and expand on our collaboration with the Festival with this Short Film Exhibition,” says Jason Plourde, Programming Director of Three Dollar Bill Cinema.

Screening Schedule

  • Unexpected PLEASURES: Plays throughout the day on Sunday June 17 and Saturday June 23.
  • STICKY Situations: Plays throughout the day on Saturday June 16 and Friday June 22.
  • PRIDE Program: Plays throughout the day on only Sunday June 24.

Click on the yellow program titles below to learn more about the featured films.

Unexpected PLEASURES

  • At Ease—David de Lara—The art of seducing and pleasing yourself.
  • Emile—N Maxwell Lander—The visual representation of a textual interlude, à la the “French” section of a Russian classic (in 4 minutes flat!)
  • Naked Love – Ea’s Garden—Sara Koppel—Take a sensual trip through Ea´s sexuality in a surrealistic abstract poetic atmosphere in this erotic hand-drawn animated art film.
  • Pass The Salt, Please—Tatjana Najdanovic—A couple’s dinner repartee quickly morphs into a scene ripped straight from the script of an adult movie. Who wins the battle of the sexes is anyone’s guess. Starring Seymour Cassell (Faces) and Fionnula Flanagan (Lost, The Others).
  • Zentai Song (Zentai 48)—Yuzuru Maeda—“This is a song to talk about how I feel when I wear Zentai suits.”
  • Kubota Flower—Shawn Telford—This is the Seattle dancer, producer and performer Lily Verlaine dancing through Seattle’s Kubota Gardens in her famous Stargazer Gown. Lily and designer Danial Webster dreamed up the dress, raised a small fortune and had it custom made with the help of many generous benefactors. The dress debuted at the 2011 Burlesque Hall of Fame, “the Superbowl of the Strip Tease.” This video honors the dress, those that helped make it and everyone who has ever adored a flower… or a woman dressed like one!
  • Morning—Dror Soref—Morning is an experimental, narrative short about men and women’s union with God, and with one another. The film creates a visual and emotional parallel between the act of praying and the act of lovemaking, in which two Jewish Orthodox couples, of two separate generations, explore the meaning of God in their lives in two very different ways.
  • Rorschach—Scott Dunn—A photographer shoots two models in a natural state and setting.
  • Cold Star—Kai Stänicke—A boy experiences new desires while watching a man at an indoor swimming pool. Cold Star is an appeal for acceptance of your own and others sexual identity.
  • One Night Only—Wes Hurley

STICKY Situations

  • Robotika v2.0—Melissa Bruno—A sex doll’s internal musings.
  • Consumer Onanism 1-3—Demian Dine “Yazhi”—Using text from company slogans and ad campaigns, Consumer Onanism takes their commands one step further and interprets them as literal masturbatory messages aimed at fueling and inciting self-exploration.
  • Missing the Target—Werther Germondari & Maria Laura Spagnoli—During training, a marksman isn’t able to focus on his target.
  • Spring—Hong Khaou—This psycho-sexual thriller might test your limits of control.
  • A Girls’ Night Out (Mädchenabend)—Timo Becker—When Eva’s retirement home roommate abducts her for a night in the Hamburg red-light district, she is confronted with a flashy and entertaining world she feels way to old for.
  • Butterfly Caught—Joshua Bewig—A shy and curious girl learns something new from a book on Japanese bondage. Winner “Best Experimental Short” Cinekink Erotic Film Festival, NYC.
  • Don’t Look At Me—John Strong—A private fantasy becomes a dose of reality for two roommates.
  • Ex-Sex—Michael Mohan—Two former lovers navigate their fizzled relationship by confusing their emotional needs with their physical desires.

Special PRIDE Program (June 24 only)

  • Queer Umbrella—Rosa Middleton—Whimsical imagery abounds in this cleverly narrated inquiry into what it means to be queer.
  • The Apple—Emilie Jouvet—The Apple won the Jury Award for Most Innovative Short Film at the 2009 Seattle Lesbian and Gay Film Festival.
  • The Window—Philippe Gosselin—A short comedy about the profound liberation—and pleasure!—that comes from letting go of inhibitions, embracing all of who you are and revealing your soul and yourself to the world.
  • Transsexual Dominatrix—Shawna Virago—“I do it for the leather I do it for the power I do it for the pleasure of $250 an hour.”
  • You Move Me—Gina Hirsch—In this hilarious lesbian “bromance,” it takes a U-Haul for two friends to redefine their relationship.
  • Baldguy (Skallamann)—Maria Block—A vital musical film about being who you are and loving who ever you want.

We are excited to continue and expand on our collaboration with Three Dollar Bill Cinema

Festival Short Film Directors

Jason Plourde
Keith Bacon