September 14th, 2018

With Lina Bembe, Paulita Pappel, Candy Flip.
Moderator: Marit Östberg

Lecture: Longing for a safer space

Ever since Marit Östberg started to make porn ten years ago she has been trying to figure out and working with the same questions: How do we create safer spaces? What do we do when we fail? How do we learn from our experiences and from each other? Marit Östberg shares her knowledges from and strategies in directing and producing queer feminist porn.

Panel discussion: Working rights and collective voices in feminist and ethical porn.

A market has opened up for “feminist” and “ethical” porn. What happens when these labels are used to promote porn film companies? Do they deliver what they promise? How can performers organize and create collective spaces to talk about working conditions? Performers and producers discuss how to create safer spaces in feminist and ethical porn productions.

Lina Bembe is a Mexican performer, model and occasional writer based in Berlin. She sweats in selected productions, ranging from feminist amateur to queer post-porn narratives and on DIY projects of co-creation, focused on racialized bodies. Lina also co-hosts The Ersties Podcast and is part of Sex School, an upcoming platform of Explicit Sex Education films.

Paulita Pappel is a feminist pornographer. She works as performer, director and producer. She is the founder of the internet platform lustery.com and film curator at the Pornfilmfestival Berlin.

Candy Flip is a sex worker, film maker and performer from Berlin. As a part of the post porn collective MEOW MEOW she is making explicit films exploring sexuality, gender, and structures of power. As a performer she appears in a variety of productions from mainstream gang bang to art film.

Marit Östberg is a film maker who makes queer feminist porn, music videos and creates queer experimental moving images. She sometimes performs and has a background as activist and journalist.