BLUSH San Francisco PornFilmFestival: Reel/Sex

Presented in-person at the Little Roxie! Doors open at 5:30 PM, 30 minutes before the show. “Balancing insightful documentaries and sexy fun.” Beautiful, candid, and uncensored, these short adult documentary films offer new perspectives on sexuality. Trade Center Director: Adam Baran (United States) Runtime: 8:36 The voices of five gay men who cruised for sex at the World Trade Center in the 1980s and 1990s haunt the sanitized, commerce-driven landscape that is the newly rebuilt Freedom Tower campus. A non-explicit short film by Adam Baran. In The Name Of Love Director: Bonaventure Tain (Malaysia) Runtime: 11:40 Gay couple Julian and Randall navigate life in the months after the repeal of Section 377 in a post-colonial country whose name is withheld for political reasons. The film captures a quiet yet profound moment of transition, as a law that once criminalized their love is lifted and they begin to rethink what it means to live, love, and be seen. Set against a society where legal change does not always bring social acceptance, the film is a tender portrait of two men negotiating identity, freedom, and the courage to exist without concealment. Sex Assistant Director: Andrés González Majul (Venezuela) Runtime: 21:04 Daniela and Andres are a young couple with physical disabilities from Caracas, Venezuela during the peak of its violent, socio-economic crisis. In their need to express their desire with each other, they search for support from sex workers, doctors, physical therapists, and acquaintances. Strawberry & Lemon (Frutilla y Limon) Director: Leilux Skandalo (Argentina) Runtime: 6:24 “Strawberry & Lemon” follows a gender-fluid person in Buenos Aires who confronts an oppressive society, exploring pleasure and visibility in a journey between reality and fantasy. Eavesdropping on Jason Sato’s Brothers Director: Nguyen Tan Hoang (United States) Runtime: 5:53 Hailed as the first anti-war gay porn film, Brothers (dir. Jason Sato, nom-de-porn of Japanese American video artist Norman Yonemoto) constitutes a striking experiment in early gay porn, one in which sex is intimately linked to homosexual liberation and Third World struggles. A closer look at the 1973 feature reminds us of the radical potentialities of connecting sexual and social revolutions. Listening closely to Sato’s soundtrack, its voice-over narration and popular music, we hear how the film grounds sexual fantasy squarely within social-political context. Sadie's Baby Director: Ian McClellan (United States) Runtime: 26:16 Sadie Lune is a queer performance artist and sex worker who takes a unique, artistic and collaborative approach to having a baby.