The Film Collective Frankfurt shows Jess Franco's VENUS IN FURS (1969) and experimental short films on 14. February 2015 at Bahnhofsviertel
On Saturday, February 14, 2015, Filmkollektiv Frankfurt presents a sensory double bill at Frankfurt's Bahnhofsviertel. As in the previous year, the non-profit association takes Valentine's Day as an opportunity to bring erotic and pornographic cinema - in its original analogue format - back to the big screen. In A room of the Kunstverein basis, Elbestraße 10 (60329 Frankfurt am Main), a 16mm projector and a mobile screen will be specially set up. At 8 p.m. Jess Franco's erotic psychological thriller VENUS IN FURS (Italy/BRD 1969, 86 minutes, original English version) takes us into the world of the late 1960s. Loosely based on the famous 1870 novella "Venus in Fur" by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, the virtuoso Spanish genre filmmaker depicts the story of a young man who falls for the charms of a sexually experienced woman and eventually submits to her completely. "The coat that covered paradise, uncovered hell!" the distributor announced promisingly at the time of the beguiling effect of the main character clad in fur. This is followed, at 10pm, by a specially compiled programme of experimental short films (45-60 minutes, without dialogue), each using erotic or pornographic material in its own way. THE GEOGRAPHY OF THE BODY (USA 1944) by Willard Maas combined close-ups of naked bodies with poetic commentary and is considered a classic of US avant-garde film. The filmmakers Naomi Uman and Peggy Ahwesh, on the other hand, used found material: while Uman used nail polish remover to remove all the actresses from a 1970s soft-core film for REMOVED (USA 1999), Ahwesh alienated images and sequences from a so-called stag film, a privately shot pornographic film from the 1910s and 1920s, in THE COLOR OF LOVE (USA 1994). DOWNS ARE FEMININE (USA 1993) is a surrealist collage by Lewis Klahr, who inserted cut-out porn actors into colorful 1960s living rooms.
Each film costs €5 admission per person, couples pay only the price for one person. Admission from 18 years.
With the annual event Erotic Cinema on Valentine's Day, the Filmkollektiv Frankfurt wants to remember the bygone days of train station and porn cinemas, when erotic and pornographic films were still shown in analogue format and were part of the public cinema programme. The non-profit association Filmkollektiv Frankfurt - Projektionsraum für unterrepräsentierte Filmkultur e.V. has been presenting independently curated cinema programs in Frankfurt am Main since September 2013.
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Source: Filmkollektiv Frankfurt