22 min | short film selection
Enjoy the sauciest selection of short films made by female and/or queer directors. The short film gems that blur the line between the erotic and the artistic into a mesmerising whirlwind of expression told from a female and/or queer perspective. Changing our gaze. Juicy content, quirky stories, visual pleasures but, most of all stories told from a fresh perspective.
First screened as part of the Saucy Selection showcased during the Playgrounds International Film Festival, this program was co-curated by Hannah Lau-Walker, animation director and founder of She Drew That.
! ATT: The films can depict mature content.
Selected films:
- Tongue (d. Kaho Yoshida) | 2 min
- Path to Pleasure (d. Nicola Francis) | 44 sec
- The Eating of an Orange (d. May Kindred-Boothby) | 7 min 29 sec | animation
- Carrotica (d. Daniel Sterlin-Altman) | 11 min 30 sec | animation
Tongue (d. Kaho Yoshida)
Canada, Japan | 2 min | animation
Tired of being talked at by men, a woman takes a sensual trip with unusual friends.
Path to Pleasure (d. Nicola Francis)
UK | 44 sec | animation
Nothing stifles pleasure like the pressure to achieve it. However, by managing lifestyle factors that impact intimacy, adjusting positions, or incorporating tools like lube, and more, we build a foundation from which pleasure can flow more freely. We are able to trade the energy of “achieving” for “allowing”. This shifts our habit of spectatoring during sex, to simply being present with pleasure!
The Eating of an Orange (d. May Kindred-Boothby)
UK, France | 7 min 29 sec | animation
Stark conformity dominates the residents of a large manor house. Identical figures eat the same, move the same, look the same. But everything changes when one woman gets given an orange by a strange figure. She has never seen an orange. In the exploration of this new and exciting discovery, she gets transported into another realm. In this forested world full of lichens and copulating slugs a sensuous fluidity opens up to her. But how can she balance this with the world she knows? She must make a choice: abandon her discovery, or step forwards into a new way of being.
Carrotica (d. Daniel Sterlin-Altman)
Germany | 11.30 min | animation
16-year-old Nadav is writing an explicit gay erotica and his mother Shari, a Fertility Botanist, is busy working and falling in love with a sexy carrot. Carrotica ambitiously tackles a triple narrative in 13 minutes: the sexual reawakening of a middle-aged single mother, the anxious adolescence of a horny but stunted queer teenager writing a gay erotic story, and his erotic story- a sex encounter at a public swimming pool.