Tuesday, Oct. 2nd, 8:00 PM
The Good, The Bad, and the Ridiculous:
S/M at the Movies, The Sequel!
Location: TES, 24 Bond Street, NYC
(Doors open 7:30 PM, presentation starts 8PM)
Thor Stockman of GMSMA (Gay Male S/M Activists) returns with another entertaining look at how S/M and S/M culture has been portrayed in mainstream movies. Last year's presentation was sold out, so show up early!
Wednesday, Oct. 3rd, 8:00 PM
A Taste of S/M: An Exploratorium
Location: TES, 24 Bond Street, NYC
(Doors open 7:30 PM, presentation starts 8PM)
Presented by TES's own DM/sw and Switchables Groups. With demonstration stations for Flogging, Caning, Sensual Hot Wax, Erotic Knife Play, Bondage and more! This is your chance to see, feel, and do. Step away from the silver screen for an experience as up-close and hands-on as you like.
Thursday, Oct. 4th, 7:00 PM
Don't Let Me Die On a Sunday
Location: Anthology Film Archives, 32 2nd Ave., NYC
 Directed by Didier LePecheur, 86 minutes, France, 1999. In French with English subtitles.
Starring Elodie Bouchez, Jean-Marc Barr, Martin Petit-Guyot and Patrick Catalifo
"Bouchez is terrific, guilelessly leading us through her lurid quest toward dangerous love." - LA New Times
"Startling, outrageous...a nightworld of sex, sadomasochism, and techno music. Elodie Bouchez is entrancing." - Flaunt Magazine
After a near-overdose at a rave, a sensation-seeking young woman becomes fascinated by the morgue employee who has inadvertently brought her back to life. Though he initially fends off her advances, soon they are off on a high-stakes trek through the Parisian cultural underground, a world where pain is on par with pleasure and death holds as much fascination as life.
Thursday, Oct. 4th, 9:00 PM
Born to Raise Hell
Location: Anthology Film Archives, 32 2nd Ave., NYC
 Directed by Roger Earl, 80 minutes, USA, 1974.
Staring: Val Martin, Quave Dalton, Steve Richards, John Detour, Eric Lansing, Tiger John, and David Andrews
From the pool table at the Truck Stop Bar, to a stop at the Gauntlet, to a sweaty stay in a private basement dungeon, this 1970s-era Leathermen’s classic follows two hot tops as they make their way through a Los Angeles valley of eager slaves and beautiful bottoms.
Thursday, Oct. 4th, 11:00 PM
Kick-Off Party
& Fund Raiser
Location: The Lure, 409 West 13th St.(9th Ave. and Washinton St.), NYC
Screenings, raffles and schmooze. All proceeds benefit the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom and the Leather Archives & Museum.
Friday, Oct. 5th, 7:00 PM
Moonlight Whispers
Location: Anthology Film Archives, 32 2nd Ave., NYC
 Directed by Akihiko Shiota, 100 minutes, Japan, 1999. In Japanese with English subtitles.
Starring Kenji Mizuhashi and Tsugumi. Based on the Manga "Gekko no Sasayaki" by Masahiko Kikuni
Soon after they begin dating, teen-aged Takuya declares that he doesn't really wish to be Satsuki's "boyfriend." Rather, he wants to be her "dog." Her subsequent and increasingly cruel attempts to repel the devoted Takuya only serve to fan his fixation - until Satsuki realizes how much pleasure she takes in finding new ways to torment him.
Friday, Oct. 5th, 9:00 PM
Helpless Maiden Makes an "I" Statement, Happy Birthday, School, Switch, Kinky Pinky's, The Black Glove
Location: Anthology Film Archives, 32 2nd Ave., NYC
 Helpless Maiden Makes an "I" Statement
Directed by Thirza Cuthand, 6 minutes, Canada, 1999.
Childhood cartoon images punctuate this tale of our heroine, the helpless maiden, who, tiring of her consensual S/M relationship with an "evil" queen, and confined to the dungeon in cuffs, rashly initiates what quickly becomes an emotionally messy ending.
 Happy Birthday
Directed by Antonia Kao, 4 minutes, USA, 1999.
Demonstrating an alternate use for candles, a woman prepares to present herself as an S/M gift.
School
Directed by Kika Thorne, 5 minutes, Canada, 1996.
A school girl (Thorne) is put to the test by a headmistress (Miss Barbrafisch) to the steamy sounds of Love To Love You Baby.
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Continued, from left column
 Switch
Directed by Darlene Weide, 14 minutes, USA, 1996.
Addressing the ongoing dialogue about gender and S/M, this documentary looks at San Francisco queer women who identify as switches - and why they like moving through the categories of butch/femme, top/bottom and boy/girl.
 Kinky Pinky's
Directed by Darlene Weide, 12 minutes, USA, 2000.
Love’s for sale when two cigarette girls duke it out over customers.
 The Black Glove
Directed by Maria Beatty, 30 minutes, USA, 1996.
The brooding aura of abandon is present in this artful escalation of pleasure and pain, bondage and menace, fetishism and foot worship, as lovely Maria surrenders to the wills and whims of the hypnotically intense Mistress Morgana, and the exotic, ambiguous creature, TV Sabrina.
Friday, Oct. 5th, 11:00 PM
The Frightened Woman
Location: Anthology Film Archives, 32 2nd Ave., NYC
 Directed by Piero Schivazappa, 90 minutes, Italy, 1971.Dubbed into English.
Starring Dagmar Lassander and Phillippe Leroy. Production design by Francesco Cuppini.
At a luxurious villa outside of Rome, a reclusive millionaire devotes his weekends to gratifying his sadistic fantasies, staging elaborate scenarios of "master and slave." But when a beautiful and savvy journalist is lured into his den, the result is a twisted game of terror and pleasure, power and control.
Saturday, Oct. 6th, 7:00 PM
Pain Game, Out of the Darkness
|Location: Anthology Film Archives, 32 2nd Ave., NYC
Out of the Darkness: The Reality of S&M
Directed by Mark Frazier and Hardy Haberman, 36 minutes, USA, 2001.
With Michael Bernet, Lynda Blakeslee, Dorothy Hayden, Dr. Charles Moser and Jane Oxenbury.
Featuring interviews with a variety of mental health experts, and originally intended to help educate health care and law enforcement professionals about S/M, this is a historical and contemporary account of what people in the "leather" communities do, and how it differs from non-consensual abuse.
The Pain Game
 Directed by Cléo Dubois, 54 minutes, USA, 2000.
Cleo Dubois ....is seen here doing one-on-one scenes with a male and female player and talking about what it all means to her. After her two SM sessions, the viewer is left in no doubt about the potential for achieving ecstasy through sustained, consensual SM play. Using bondage and whipping in one scene, and piercing and clamping in the other, she demonstrates an intense personal style and consummate technique that ultimately have them both flying. -- TM. Skin Two, Winter 2000
BDSM educator and practitioner Cléo Dubois leads a journey into the advanced world of what she terms "Dark Eros." Part documentary, part performance, this intense exploration details the level of heartfelt connection that can be created between play-partners, touching upon the many aspects, both psychological and physical, of S/M.
Saturday, Oct. 6th, 9:00 PM
Lies
Location: Anthology Film Archives, 32 2nd Ave., NYC
 Directed by Jang Sun Woo, 115 minutes, South Korea, 1999.
Starring Sang Hyun Lee and Tae Yeon Kim.
When Y, a high school student intent on losing her virginity before graduation, meets J, an older, married sculptor, it is for the pre-arranged purpose of her deflowering. But as his renewed passion encounters her exuberant curiosity, a few spontaneous and affectionate spanks seemingly set the couple on a dramatic and creatively sadomasochistic course through increasingly heightened emotions.
Saturday, Oct. 7th, 11 PM
Film Fest Wrap Party!
Location: Paddles, 250 West 26th St.(between 7th and 8th Ave.), NYC
The festival wrap party is also open to the general public – the experienced, novice or merely curious - this play party offers a safe and supervised space for people to meet others, and to explore or learn more about consensual S/M. |
