Blue Artichoke Films celebrates sex as a beautiful, strange, messy, fascinating, fun and thrilling force of nature. Join us for a daring conversation addressing sexuality as a cultural and artistic phenomenon. Featuring international stars across the fields of pornography, sex education, sexological science, and academia, we explore a nuanced, contemporary approach to sex which values diversity, consent, pleasure, and an organic cross-pollination between private life and erotic art. Parental advisory: this programmme contains explicit content.

With contributions by:

• Stoya (USA) is an internationally renowned porn performer, model, writer, and artist who gives a voice to porn performers and sex workers. She is the author of Philosophy, Pussycats & Porn, and co-founded her platform ZeroSpaces as an online erotic magazine integrating her writing with erotic photographs and movies.

• Ellen Laan (NL) is a clinical sexologist and psychologist who is one of the world’s leading experts on female pleasure. Lately her activism brings her to the Dutch music festival Lowlands, where she educates young people about sexuality. She is the co-author of two books, “Sex!” and “Body Book for Power Girls.”

• Bishop Black (UK, DE), performance artist, porn performer, and educator, confronts the stereotypes that operate within pornography and explores his own identity as a queer black man. He stars in the new Berlin-based adult sex education collective, Sex School, which aims to show the spectrum of sex in an explicitly relatable and informative way.

• Jennifer Lyon Bell (NL, USA) is an award-winning erotic filmmaker, teacher, and curator. With Blue Artichoke Films, she mixes arthouse cinema with hot explicit sex to create erotic fiction films and documentaries that illuminate the riveting, intimate, and sometimes delightfully awkward side of sex.

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