Our 20th Anniversary! CineKink 2023 - Virtual Edition
The kinky film festival is back…celebrating our 20th anniversary with virtual encores of our CineKink 2023 festival offerings!
Programs include:
Braving The Binary
A set of colorful works about taking on rigid definitions of gender and embracing full selfexpression.
Bring It!
A dazzling array of talent from today's adult cinema steps up with a hot sampling of their recent endeavors.
Get Off
A collection of lusty shorts explores all kinds of pleasuring...self and otherwise!
In A Good Way
Follows the tentative weekend reunion of a couple curious to find whether the new versions of themselves can make it work in a way their old selves could not. (CineKink Audience Choice Award – Best Narrative Feature)
Make It Work
Shorts that move beyond the tropes, taking a closer look at those whose work just happens to involve sex.
Rough Edges
When a couple hooks up at a BDSM club, their presumed one-night stand evolves as they explore each other’s kinks and try to keep things casual. (CineKink Audience Choice Award – Honorable Mention)
The Affairs of Lidia
In this erotic farce from director Bruce LaBruce, fashion model Lidia plots a devious revenge against her philandering, bisexual boxer husband.
This Is Where I Get Off
A tribute to the life of late filmmaker, Charles Lum, whose works defied the taboos and stigmas of sex, sex in public places, and sex with HIV. Plays with ‘No Siren Left Behind.’ (CineKink Audience Choice Award – Best Experimental Feature)
Ties That Bind
A collection of shorts that explore the many tastes and predilections - some like it quirky, some like it dark - that make up the world of kink.
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Program 1: Braving The Binary
A range of colorful works that take on rigid definitions of gender and extoll full self-expression!
More information: http://www.cinekink.com/programs-and-events/nyc/cinekink-2023-virtual-edition/braving-the-binary/
Program 2: Bring It!
Water makes me wet!
Babygurl’s Big Birthday Bang
Manon Praline is turning 40 and for her birthday, her sweet and sadistic Leather Family planned a very special celebration.
Bang Click Bang
Inspired by the sexploitation films of Russ Meyers and Michelangelo Antonioni’s Blow Up, a slow burning subversion of cinematic tropes finds the carnal in the camp and the sumptuous in the sleaze.
Bound
It’s time for dinner, but something else is heating up the kitchen!
Dance.Destroy.Create.
Destroys existing expectations of what a porn film involving dance (or vice-versa) could be, and creates something fresh and new.
Glimmer
Under the shade of a sheet on a clothesline, Charlie and Danika softly caress each other, building in intensity as Charlie’s supple skin molds perfectly to the athletic sculpt of Danika.
Merry Clitmas
Under a purple Christmas tree, two playful lovers unpack their presents.
Two lovers on a date, exploring each other’s bodies, and having sex the way they want to – free of the cis gaze.
More information: http://www.cinekink.com/programs-and-events/nyc/cinekink-2023-virtual-edition/bring-it/
Program 3: Get Off
Streaming October 6th (12pm Pacific) through October 15th
A set of shorts explores pleasuring… self and otherwise!
Pussy Love
Romance is kitsch. But even the most jaded cat can still be lost for love.
Call Me
Color me your color, baby.
I Miss Your Cock
Love story: Tumblr helps ease the pain of losing you.
Gloryhole Theater: Storage Unit
A trans man tells of a secret storage unit and its connection to an anonymous hookup.
Jelqing for Gains
This is how you get big.
The Proof is in The Pudding
Determined to provide a cake for a vegan birthday party, Milly and Lise discover an unusual recipe.
More Than A Feeling
A diverse cross-section of queer people describe discovering the joys of self-pleasure for the first time.
Eyes on Dulce
After catching you peeping from the closet, Dulce exposes you for the filthy voyeur that you are, forcing you to watch as she pleasures herself.
Distanced
Set and shot in March 2021 during the time of curfews and quarantine, an unlikely mixture of genres: rom-com, gay porn, and what Germans like to call “Heimatfilm.”
Mindful Pleasure
An exploration of mindfulness, body positivity and pleasure.
More information: http://www.cinekink.com/programs-and-events/nyc/cinekink-2023-virtual-edition/get-off/
Program 4: In A Good Way
preceded by
Photo of the Day
A photo from their past ignites a conversation about the possibility of an open marriage between a husband and wife.
More information: http://www.cinekink.com/programs-and-events/nyc/cinekink-2023-virtual-edition/in-a-good-way/
Program 5: Make It Work
Streaming October 6th (12pm Pacific) through October 15th
A set of shorts that move beyond the tropes, taking a closer look at those whose work just happens to involve sex.
Red Fried District
In a snack automat, a young, naive croquette has to compete with an experienced, bitchy cheese soufflé to persuade a hungry customer that she’s the tastiest snack.
Gloryhole Theater: The NDA
A trans sex worker tells about signing an NDA for a hypocritical client.
House of Whoreship
When Violet, a suburban brothel worker, returns to work after enduring a break-up, she is confronted by her recent ex-girlfriend hustling the same shift.
All Appetite
After a lifetime of wanting to be skinny, Heather’s world is turned upside down when she falls for a man who pushes her to gain weight for him.
Flyby Cathy
In 1981, English porn actress Kathy Harcourt mysteriously disappeared from the United States.
Woman Meets Girl
As cocktails lead to revealing conversation, chemistry builds between Annabelle, an awkward in her own skin, forty-two-year-old woman and Tessie, an extroverted, eighteen-year-old sex worker.
Rituals: An Intimate Portrait of Kali Sudhra
Shot during the isolation of the pandemic, this explicit documentary invites you into Kali’s home in Barcelona and offers an intimate look at her life behind closed doors.
More information: http://www.cinekink.com/programs-and-events/nyc/cinekink-2023-virtual-edition/makeit-work/
Program 6: Rough Edges
Streaming October 6th (12pm Pacific) through October 15th
Directed by Charles Lyons, 2022, USA, 128 minutes. Stars Timothy Huls, Phoebe Jones, Joseph Patrick O'Malley, Jazmin Brehaut, Sergio Alejandro, Maya Butler and April Deutschle.
More info: http://www.cinekink.com/programs-and-events/nyc/cinekink-2023-virtual-edition/rough-edges/
Program 7: The Affairs of Lidia
Streaming October 6th (12pm Pacific) through October 15th
Lidia, a fashion model, discovers her husband Michelangelo, a boxer, is having an affair with Sandro, a fashion photographer. She deviously plots her revenge in this erotic comedy set against the backdrop of the fashion world.
preceded by
Gloryhole Theater: Hungry
A fat gay bear tells of intersecting sex roles and food consumption.
Gaylovers Travels
Three vacationing party boys decide to embark on a mission to find the hottest new bar and they come across a hole in the wall they have never seen before!
More info: http://www.cinekink.com/programs-and-events/nyc/cinekink-2023-virtual-edition/the-affairs-of-lidia/
Program 8: This Is Where I Get Off
Streaming October 6th (12pm Pacific) through October 15th
A tribute to Charles Lum’s life told through his work as a filmmaker. A CineKink Spotlight Artist and longtime alumni, Charlie AKA Clublum was a much-loved and valued member of the queer and film communities, whose films defied the taboos and stigmas of sex, sex in public places and sex with HIV.
Compiled and edited by Todd Verow, 2022, USA, 71 minutes.
plays with
No Siren Left Behind
A chronicle of the pioneering Sirens motorcycle club, the oldest and largest women-run motorcycle club in New York City, looking at its place within NYC’s queer culture, and the impact it’s had on the lives of its members. Directed by Shirin Barghi and Martine Granby, 2022, USA, 25 minutes.
Program 9: Ties That Bind
Streaming October 6th (12pm Pacific) through October 15th
Kinky shorts!
There are many tastes and predilections - some like it quirky, some like it dark - that make up the world of kink and bring us together.
Down for Dee
A young schoolteacher tries to navigate her many possible matches in the world of superhero fetish matchmaking.
Our Language Is Chaos
A kidnapped couple are running late for their polyamorous couples’ therapy.
Krush the Wrestler
Exploring the innate intimacy of submission wrestling, a lifelong wrestler turns his talents into an ondemand fetish video service.
Gloryhole Theater: Knife
Bad decisions make an anonymous kink scene dangerous for a first timer.
Good Girl
After ending a six-year relationship, a well-behaved, Jewish, OBGYN decides to turn her brain off and her body on by exploring BDSM; instances of which are popping up in the most unusual places.
Oral History
The true love story behind New Orleans' last remaining gay leather bar.
State of Mind
Highlights the intimacy and beauty found through the experience of power exchange in BDSM/leather/fetish/kink.
Safe Word
An emotionally-stunted masochist must confront his self-loathing after his Dom reinterprets the rules of their game. How comfortable are we at choosing our own pain?
Trimming the Wick
Casting a spell in shadows and light.
Home Movies : Pervy Pets
Daddy Mahx has a camcorder and two horny pets who can't seem to stop humping each other!
More info: http://www.cinekink.com/programs-and-events/nyc/cinekink-2023-virtual-edition/ties-that-bind/
