CineKink Articles

CineKink San Francisco will take place from November 19-21 at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. Screening films include James Westby's The Auteur, a farcical comedy about has-been Italian erotica filmmaker Arturo Domingo's trip to Portland to receive a Lifetime Achievement Award; A. Benjamin's Kinky (above, lower photo), a 2008 documentary that explores sexuality issues among black Americans; and a couple of dozen shorts, [...]

PRESS RELEASE Scheduled for its seventh annual appearance February 16-21, 2010, CineKink NYC is seeking films and videos, of any length and genre, that explore and celebrate the wide diversity of sexuality. Billing itself as "the kinky film festival," organizers are looking to blur some boundaries and will be considering offerings drawn from both Hollywood and beyond, with works ranging from documentary to drama, camp [...]

CineKink NYC 2008 Film Line-Up: Intro From the CineKink press release: Among the headliners, first up, on Wednesday, February 27 at 7 PM, is the festival's CineKink Tribute screening of SHORTBUS [above], honoring the ground-breaking film for its "extraordinary depiction of kink in mainstream film and television." Then, at 9:30 PM, a program titled "New York Stories," surveys adult entertainment offerings from New York-based directors [...]

Anna Biller in Viva CineKink NYC 2008 will take place from February 26–March 2. The scheduled shorts and features sound kinky enough, but I can only vouch for two that I've seen: John Cameron Mitchell's Shortbus and Anna Biller's Viva. The former, a sexual dramatic-comedy about various New York City couples of myriad sexual orientations and dysfunctions, was screened at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival. [...]