Think Kink: San Fran Hosts CineKink Film Fest Tour

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Published on Thursday, 19 November 2009 00:27

Written by Frank Lovece

Following its February premiere in New York City, the CineKink NYC Festival heads to the city by the sea, San Francisco, for  a weekend of what it calls "sex-positive and kink-friendly depictions in film and television", at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 701 Mission Street (at Third).

With "offerings drawn from both Hollywood and beyond, with works ranging from documentary to drama, camp comedy to hot porn, mildly spicy to quite explicit," the fest (running from Nov. 19-21) to opens with A. Benjamin's 46-minute documentary Kinky (Nov. 19th, 7 p.m.), about African-American race and sexuality issues in the world of bondage, fetish and BDSM. Screening with it is the documentary short BDSM: It's. Not What You Think.

At 9 p.m., the festival screens the shorts program Whips & Restraint, featuring the pieces Gravuren Desade, Butler in the Closet, 20 Licks, Valley of the Dommes, Serving Madame Gina and Kink, Inc.

Night two opens at 7 p.m. with the shorts program Lipsticks & Crinoline, featuring Miss Jezebel's Feathers, Dorian: A Picture, Pritch and Panch Do... The Cinderfella Experience at Miss Vera's Finishing School and The Tour De Pants. At 9 p.m. is a companion shorts program, "Wanton Female Desire," with the films Teat Beat of Sex: 8-11, My Favorite Time of the Day, Barcelona Sex Project: Irina, Case 1112: Forty Is the New 14, Strap On Motel and Matinee.

On Saturday night at 7 p.m. is James Westby's 2008 comedy feature The Auteur (above), winner of the Audience Choice Award for Best Narrative Feature. A mockumentary set in the world of adult film, it follows a renowned porn director who has arrived in Portland, Ore., to receive a Lifetime Achievement award at a film festival. Screening with it is the darkly comic short Je Dis Non, Ali.

Closing out the festival at 8 p.m. is Best of CineKink/2009 Shorts Sampler. The program includes At the Porno Shop, Teat Beat of Sex: 8-11, Un Piede di Roman Polanski, Erotic, Belle de Nature, Rubberheart and Kink, Inc.

CineKink 2010's final Call for Entries is December 4th and the next CineKink NYC, the annual festival, takes place
from February 16-21, 2010 in New York City.

More info/tickets: http://www.cinekink.com/tour/sf

CineKink Festival
from Nov. 19-21
The Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
701 Mission Street (at Third)
San Francisco, CA

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