CineKink, well-known as "the kinky film festival," returns to Chicago for a sizzling weekend rendezvous November 22-23, showcasing films that celebrate and explore a wide diversity of sexuality—and it'll all be taking place at Leather Archives & Museum, 6418 N. Greenview Ave., Chicago.
On Friday, November 22, at 7:30 PM, the documentary The Artist & The Pervert, directed by Beatrice Behn and René Gebhardt, and winner of a CineKink 2019 Audience Choice Award, will be presented. It's an intimate look at the openly sadomasochistic relationship of Georg Friedrich Haas, a famous Austrian composer and child of Nazi parents, and his wife, Mollena Williams-Haas, a renowned American kink educator and descendant of African slaves. The program also includes the CineKink award-winning short film, Impact, directed by and starring Williams-Haas.
On Saturday, November 23, at 6:30 PM, "Sweet Spot," a program of kinky shorts that poke and play with the dynamics of scratching just that particular itch, will be presented. Selections in this screening include Ostara (Allen Dusk), Sweet, Sweet Kink: A Collection of BDSM Stories (Maggie M. Bailey), Spanko (Melanie Zoey Weinstein), Little (Kris Williams), Unbridled (Marcus Quillan and Simon Christopher), Two People, One Ring (Evan Richards), The Wheel of Fortune (Bambi K) and Frostbite (Luna Kuu, Laura Rämö and Martin Jäger).
And at 9 PM that evening, "Best of CineKink/2019," a collection of sexy shorts deemed the best during CineKink's most recent festival run, will be shown. This year's assortment, with works ranging from mildly spicy to quite explicit, includes a comic look at one woman’s struggle to enjoy some alone time, a colorful portrait of an infamous latex aficionado, along with a documentary about and the latest work from CineKink 2019 Spotlight Artist Jennifer Lyon Bell. The full line-up features Me Time (Iyabo Boyd), Lesson #1 and Lesson #8 (Alberto Ferreras), I Am Lucie Bee (Ms. Naughty), The Baroness (Isabel Faintych), Remember Me (Luis Camacho), Birthday (Shine Louise Houston), What’s Your Policy on Orgasms? (Zoe D’Amaro), Adorn (Jennifer Lyon Bell) and The Alley (Inka Winter).
CineKink co-founder and director Lisa Vandever, a former Chicago resident, will be on hand to introduce the Saturday screenings.
Admission is $12 door/$9 advance per screening; $7 LA&M or CineKink members/door only. A limited number of weekend passes, good for all three screenings, are available for $25 advance. 18 and over only. Advance tickets and passes are available here.
National tour sponsors for CineKink/2019 are Bowery Bliss and njoy, along with Film Festival Secrets, FoodPorn Hub and Lustery.
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