LONDON FETISH FILM FESTIVAL 2020: Keep Your Mouth Shut, My Dear (Dir: Lily Rinae, Japan) is among LFFF 2020 shorts being streamed by PinkLabel.tv from 6.00pm UK time on Sunday Dec 13
London Fetish Film Festival 2020: streaming for you this weekend!
London Fetish Film Festival 2020 has been reconfigured this year as a one-night livestreaming event after its successful launch as a multi-day festival last year. Streamed by PinkLabel.tv on Sunday evening (December 13) from 6pm London time, the programme features 24 fetish and BDSM films split into three sections with breaks in between. Most are shorts that run for under five minutes, but a feature-length movie closes the programme. Our preview has a full programme rundown and details of a discount for our Fetishistas Newsletter subscribers. Banner image from Nausea, a featured short by Dayne Henderson & Steven McIvor
London Fetish Film Festival 2020 sees the return of the event launched in June 2019 as a multi-day live programme and reconfigured for this year as an online livestreaming event.
Produced by LFFF artistic director Venus Raven and her co-curator, Uncensored Festival’s Lidia Ravviso, LFFF 2020 is hosted by San Francisco-based PinkLabel.tv, and supported by The Fetishistas.
Support from The Fetishistas this year extended to recommending some videos that have made it into the final programme. They include Nausea (see banner above) from Dayne Henderson and Steven McIvor (UK); Broken by Mistress Iris (US); and Devoid, Switch and Decay II by Matthias Von Braun (UK).
PinkLabel.tv is the streaming video-on-demand hub created by Pink & White Productions director Louise Houston as a platform for independent adult filmmakers, many of whom make films different from those seen in conventional pornography.
London Fetish Film Festival 2020 will livestream on PinkLabel.tv from 6pm to 12.35am GMT (with breaks) on Sunday December 13. The screening is free to PinkLabel members and costs £12 (plus fee) for non-member access to the entire LFFF programme.
Livestreaming means that it works just like a conventional cinema programme. If you want to watch it from the start, you have to be logged in at the start. You can’t log in later and rewind to the beginning, or pause the programme during streaming.
This year’s programme presents a combination of films submitted to LFFF’s open call as well as selected titles both from established and emerging artists, and including a multitude of genres.
It offers a varied line-up that explores the themes of fetish, kink, BDSM, and erotic art in subversive, irreverent and thought-provoking ways. Its films dive into the rawness of unapologetic imaginaries, ranging from humorous scenarios to the darkest visions.
The full programme will consist of three carefully curated sections with substantial breaks between them, comprising two collections of shorts followed by a feature-length movie to close the show.
Below we present the running order of the entire programme, section by section. The start time of each section is shown, along with the runtime of each individual work. Directors’ names, release dates, countries of origin and brief synopses complete the listings for each piece.
LFFF 2020 Section One: 6pm GMT (runtime: 1hr 20min)
A collection of 12 short films varying in length from 3:04 minutes to 5:59 minutes
BROKEN by Mistress Iris: ‘Close your eyes and embrace the helplessness’ (see third item below)
UMBILICAL GLUE by Bryan M Ferguson
(2018, 5:53 minutes, UK)
Olga struggles with her odd interest in umbilical cords until she joins a gang of punk belly-button enthusiasts.
ASPIK by Doxytocine & Theo Meow
(2017, 5:59 minutes, Germany)
Can you get high from bathing in a DIY-built transparent bathtub filled with 100 litres of vegan jelly? Genderqueer performer Finn Peaks tried it out in this wet and messy fetish ritual…
BROKEN by Mistress Iris
(2019, 4:26 minutes, USA)
Close your eyes and embrace the helplessness. Every ounce of autonomy you once held over your body has been stripped away. The caretaker gives, and she can take it all away…
XYX by Sasha Ihnatovich & Kate Drobysh
(2014, 3:44 minutes, Slovenia)
XYX is a sexually charged audiovisual journey into the body and its cultural perception. This film was made during an international documentary film workshop organized by Luksuz produkcija in Ptuj, Slovenia.
DOMESTIKIA, CHAPTER 3: LA PETITE MORT by Jennifer Linton
(2013, 4:33 minutes, Canada)Madelaine sits reading in her parlour, when an unexpected visitor arrives. So begins the surreal narrative of La Petite Mort, a tale of love, betrayal, and one vengeful butterfly. Combining elements of erotica, horror, and dark humour, this film capitalises on the stiff, artificial movement of paper cut-outs to create a strange, dream-like world.
DYSPNEA by Viola V
(2014, 3:36 minutes, Australia)
Dyspnea (or ‘air hunger’) is the subjective symptom of breathlessness. The clinical definition of dyspnea is an uncomfortable awareness of one’s breathing effort. A game of autoerotic asphyxia.
NAUSEA by Dayne Henderson &
Steven McIvor (2014, 3:04 minutes, UK)
Nausea is a video collaboration between the
talented British latex designer Dayne Henderson and Steven McIvor, a Newcastle-based photographer “whose aesthetic collides perfectly with the Dayne Henderson brand” according to the designer.
CREAMPIE GLORYHOLE by Goofy Toof
(2020, 4:55 minutes, USA)
Goofy Toof begs her Daddy to give her his delicious creampie! Goofy Toof is an upcoming erotic filmmaker. She makes weird erotica and porn parodies from the perspective of an ace/demisexual.
RED TALE by Natacha Thomas
(2017, 5:16 minutes, France)
Red Tale is a dark fairy tale which opposes Red Riding Hood and Bluebeard in a dangerous and sensual tango of lights.
STALLS by João Dall’Stella: where a secret glory hole meets tap-dancing (see item below)
STALLS by João Dall’Stella
(2019, 3:10 minutes, USA)
A trip to the restroom, a secret glory hole and a tap-dancing sequence. And a man willing to give Jonathan what he wants…
RUBBER GUILLOTINE by Bryan M Ferguson (2016, 1:11 minutes, UK)
Rubber Guillotine follows an angsty 17-year-old girl who sucker-punches her parent’s hopes for her future by aspiring to donate her skeleton to gelatine.
FLAMINGO by Bryan M Ferguson
(2016, 31 minutes, UK)
It started with a buzzcut and ended with a hacksaw! Flamingo caters to all your self-amputation needs. While developing a perverse relationship with an obscene phone caller, an alienated dancer considers the loss of a leg as she descends into the world of self-amputation.
LFFF 2020 Section Two: 8pm GMT (runtime 1hr 9min)
A collection of 11 short films varying in length from 1:19 minutes to 30 minutes
SWITCH by Matthias Von Braun: dark surrealism featuring Eva Cornelisse and Olivier Tafforin (below)
SWITCH by Matthias Von Braun
(2017, 2:24 minutes, UK)
Dark surreal short film featuring Eva Cornelisse and Olivier Tafforin with cinematography by Normen Luzinsky.
KEEP YOU MOUTH SHUT, MY DEAR
by Lily Rinae (2020, 8:45 minutes, Japan)
A submissive man wants to serve his mistress, but he is also a clean-freak and a germophobe, which keeps him worried during their sessions.
ROPE DYSTOPIA by Yiorgos Bakalis
(2019, 1:19 minutes, Greece)
A post-apocalyptic promo video about the art of shibari. A video art performance about fetish, sexuality and ropes.
VERMINE TAPE by Amaury Grisel
(3:53 minutes, France)
Wasteland Vermin is a primal sexual pet player; he has been kidnapped and tape-bondaged and is now struggling to escape…
BODY SUSPENSION by Eggor Kree
(2018, 1:35 minutes, Russia)
In Russia, fetish, kink, BDSM and erotic culture are still stigmatised. This film is an attempt from the director to normalise such practices through art. Stretched ropes pulling up, bodies defying gravity: linger in the beauty and the tenderness of ‘Body Suspension’.
DEVOID by Matthias Von Braun
(2018, 3:15 minutes, UK)
Devoid is a film featuring Monika Blaszczak. The human body moving in space, bare and exposed; a movement into dissolution…
AUTONOMOUS SENSE OBJECT
by Nolan Lem (2017, 1:46 minutes, USA)
This piece addresses issues related to techno-eroticism, automata theory, and casts the body as a cyborgian object of erotic materiality. The BDSMR object complicates our awareness of sound by examining aurality as a fetish, as an agent in sensory arousal that derives from our darker, more lurid impulses.
DECAY II by Matthias Von Braun
(2017, 1:49 minutes, UK)
A cry of despair for the inevitable decay that enwraps human existence, feat Alice Bizarre.
THE EMULATED STRUGGLE OF THE ADOLESCENT MALE by Marc Blackie
(2020, 7:19 minutes, UK)
This film is an impromptu collaboration between Marc Blackie and Ropebaby, a US performer and Shibari artist who was in the midst of a European tour. A stream of consciousness presentation as the lead explores the possibilities of a life of self love and then decides that regret is something to be left in the past.
THE EMULATED STRUGGLE OF THE ADOLESCENT MALE by Marc Blackie feat Ropebaby (see above)
FEAR LENE by Louis Fleischauer
(2018, 8:14 minutes, Germany)
Fear is an invisible cage. Most of our fears are hidden inside us. The more we suppress our fear, the stronger its grip becomes upon us. Through the cleansing ritual of paranoia exorcism, personal fears are transformed back into raw primal energy.
DEGRADACTION by Morgana Mayer
(2020, 30 minutes, Italy)
A journey into the subconscious in three chapters. Morgana Mayer explores degradation as the only form of freedom and struggle against contemporary society. Breakdown, flesh and defections as small fragments of poetry and truth.
LFFF 2020 Section Three: 11pm GMT (runtime 1hr 34min)
The LFFF 2020 programme concludes with a feature length film
BEHIND THE MASK by Ismail Necmi: blend of fiction, documentary and contemporary art (see below)
BEHIND THE MASK by Ismail Necmi
(2018, 1 hour 31 minutes, Turkey/Germany)
Although he enjoys a high standard of living, Berlin psychotherapist Harald is in reality determined gradually to kill himself. Only one obstacle stands between him and his desire to kill himself in front of the camera, and that is
Harald’s assistant, Martina, who loves and cares for him more than anything else. Portraying these two very different people in a thoughtful and touching way, and allowing the audience to discover a relationship rarely found nowadays in our world, Behind The Mask blends fiction, documentary and contemporary video art.
Ticketing Info and Links for London Fetish Film Festival 2020
Tickets for London Fetish Film Festival 2020 are available until two hours before the event starts from the LFFF ticketing page at outsavvy.com (see link at end).
Tickets cost £12 + £1.08 fee per ticket. A wide variety of payment options are available. The LFFF 2020 livestream has an 18+ age restriction.
Subscribers to The Fetishistas Newsletter will receive a promo code in the newsletter. Enter it in the promo code box on the LFFF ticketing page for a 10 percent discount!
Purchase of a ticket allows you to log on to the livestream from PinkLabel.tv which begins at 6pm GMT on Sunday December 13.
You should still be able to log on and watch after the programme has started streaming. But you will only be able to watch from the time you first logged on. There’s no facility to rewind to an earlier point in the show.
Similarly there is no facility to pause the livestream. However, the programme features two substantial breaks — the first of about 40 minutes between Sections One and Two, and the second of about 1 hour 50 minutes between Sections Two and Three.
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