Dear and darling art enthusiasts! After much deliberation from our Film Curator, Brodin Petrichor, we are delighted to announce the films that have been accepted into the first Pan Eros Film Festival! This sampling of short films comes to us from all across the world, and we are so excited to share them with you!
The Pan Eros Film Festival will run concurrently at the SIFF Film Center in the Seattle Center during the 20th annual Seattle Erotic Art Festival. A separate ticket is required for entry to PEFF. But enough about that! Let’s see what’s playing!
21 by Jeremy Weinstein (USA)
I was twenty-one. What did I know?
Out of Here by Helena Gudkova (Ukraine)
Who will preserve everything that I lived, that I thought, after I disappear? Those things that I did not fully understand on my own, but that burned in me with inner fire.
Can you write wind in JavaScript?
Madonna madonna by Pleasure Beyond Flesh (Sweden)
Erotic and beautiful anal featuring Sagoväsen.
Virtual Love by Aria Li (USA)
As a camgirl couple’s channel rises to the top, their relationship falls to rock bottom.
The Carolina’s Revenge by Chavo Guerrilla (Spain)
Back in 1931, in Barcelona’s Barrio chino, nowadays known as El Raval, Jean Genet witnessed an extraordinary event: La revuelta de las Carolinas (The Revolt of the Carolinas).
The Carolinas were gays, transgenders and transvestites who used to cruise in a public toilet near the Navy barracks. As the urinary was closed by the city council, they organized a public demonstration to mourn and protest against its closure.
This video is a tribute to these bold avant garde queers.
SACRO by Alyona Futsur (Italy)
The most intimate and valuable features of a human being are connection, sensation, intuition. They should not be said, proved, shown. Sensation as the body and soul language is a sacred gift we bring into the world and what we leave.
Centrifugado by Ignacio Rodó (Spain)
Your washing machine has several programs. For your Tinder dates, we would strongly suggest using the spin cycle.
WET STREAMING III – fuck my ficus by Daniela Zahlner, Aaron Nora Scherer, and Eva Sommer (Austria)
Masturbation with YouTube Nature Porn: A Tornado over Vienna, the Peruvian rainforest and the Victoria Falls are the Porn Stars we’re using to get our juices flowing and bring the outdoors to our home.
The film, both in a critical and humorous way, deals with the concept of Ecosexuality, Nature Fetish and Activism. We approach and question Ecosexuality as wholesome feminist acitivism, as sexual identity, as queer sensuality and kink, as the nature/culture divide. How can we approach the Earth as a subject? How can we worship Nature without becoming a Hippie cliché? And what’s supposed to be natural about our sexuality?
Sycamore Tree by Anastasiia Kashtalian (Poland)
Morning. The dream of love grows like a tree. The girl cares about it. Waters it. Sexual energy begins to increase.
The Kettle by Ursinae Vespera (France)
Morning tea is the best, but how do we spend time while the water is boiling? Kali and Carmina know best.
The Hidden in the Pain by Danial Ghasemian (Iran)
Unusual love is created by unusual body.
Estética Unisex by Alvaro Acosta Gutierrez (Peru)
The lives of three trans women come together through Mishell´s memories. From Huancayo City to Atta Alley in Puno, Peru; the memory comes with music, dance, and also death.
Finding Zen by Bryan Camillo (USA)
A meditation on self love.
Dix Pix by Steven Fraser (UK)
Dix Pix is a short animated documentary that looks at the gay male/trans/non-binary body and why it is common for people to send naked pictures via dating apps. The documentary takes an experimental approach in its visual style and tackles themes of masculinity, queerness, solitude and the body.
Walking A Fine Line by abcde Flash (Switzerland)
Walking A Fine Line is the celebration of one person’s sexploratory journey. abcde Flash, the film’s creator and protagonist, approached a sex worker with the wish to be guided towards new thrills, challenges and boundaries with her curiosity leading the way. The maze-like tattoo roping around the side of her body is a reflection of the journey she has been on and is still on – an obscure but playful line with no clear beginning or end, a line that sneaks its way throughout the film in different forms and moods. The film is not just the milestone of one woman’s sexual journey but also the result of it.
MAR I ANA by Mar Novo (Mexico)
Mar and Ana, best friends since childhood, look for the perfect place where Ana will get married; not before reviving their love and repressed desire for years.
The Hall by Dilan Onay (Turkey)
During pandemic, all the theatre and ballet halls were closed, and never opened back. Therefore, all the ballet dancers were unemployed, and they start to go for private shows to the halls of houses. Barış is an art lover, and he books a ballet dancer to perform a private show at his house. Deniz arrives. At the beginning, this situation is not clear. An erotic tension is felt between these two. However, the situation turns out to be different.
LUCÍA by Verònica Hernández Royo (Spain)
LUCÍA is a short dance film that immerses itself in the mythology of the martyr Saint Lucía and reinterprets her figure through dance and shibari. LUCÍA embodies the process of sanctification experienced by the martyr in her passage from woman to saint.
The dancers of La Dama star in a whole ritual that starts from purity and evolves to eroticism, rejection, torture, passes through revelation, fear, acceptance and culminates in the glorification of the woman’s body.
Bodies of Desire by Varsha Panikar (India)
Using Varsha Panikar’s poetry series by the same name, as the point of departure, Bodies of Desire is a visual poetry film co-directed by them and Saad Nawab. The film captures four sets of lovers amid passion; to create a portrait of tender intimacy, of longing, of discovery, of desire, of embrace and care, of profound companionship. It is a sensual celebration of gender-less love and desire, inspired by the poet’s lived reality.
Let’s Play by Katia Sauthier (Switzerland)
Alix, married and mother of two children, decides to counter the wear and tear of time that threatens her relationship… To make her relationship last, what games will she play?
Aguirre by Eric Yamil Cruz and Sergio Daniel (Puerto Rico)
A man’s love letter to his personal history. “I’m in the dense dust that was once Puerto Rican sugar.”
Make That Sound by David Keogh (USA)
Made with love in Seattle.