Paulita Pappel

Non-binary film maker Toni Karat invited queer and sex-positive people of the ‘Berlin porn bubble’ for this impressive documentary about narcissism and self-love. In authentic and touching self-reflective interviews ten protagonists who are as diverse as possible – lesbian, gay, queer, trans, non-binary and often over 50 – tell their sexual stories and contemplate their personal journeys and struggles. It’s an almost philosophical little masterpiece with a lot of honesty and authenticity on both sides of the camera.

Chapter III of HardWerk’s Triptychon series delivers on the numbers in lead performer Sulema Vasquez’s first ever gang bang: three cocks slowly roused to rapt attention during a tender bondage session; a screen split into one, two and three perspectives, infinite nuances, a singular desire; and one rigger and several lengths of rope to bind it all together. But – as this format proves once more, this time in its most languid and meditative installment yet – a gang bang is not math but alchemy. Where attention should be divided, pleasure is instead multiplied, where the pace slows down, intensity – intent itself – is heightened, and where twists of knots should restrict and restrain, each whisper of rope over skin speaks of something liberated, something sensual and something sacred.

Deep Throat, a pornographic film directed by Gerard Damiano, a film-loving hairdresser, and starring Linda Lovelace, a shy girl manipulated by a controlling husband, was released in 1972 and divided audiences, who began to talk openly about sex, desire and female pleasure; but also about violence and abuse; and about pornography, until then an almost clandestine industry, as a revolutionary cultural phenomenon.

True to form – and perhaps even truer to non-binary lead performer Neen Sever – the third installment of HardWerk’s hybrid gang bang/interview series Ask Me is more than an invitation, it’s a provocation: ask me, challenge me, expose me, make me. For the filmmakers, collaborating with Neen revealed new possibilities for the format, the result a ‘gonzo-meets-psychotherapy’ exploration of identity and interest, where verbal communication is paralleled in visceral expression during a vividly intense industrial gang bang. As the cameras are turned on Neen, first under a leaden Berlin sky and later in the radiance of hot lights, flushed skin, burning handprints and undivided desire, the film finds its playground in the intersection between intellect and instinct, between the psyche and the physical, between ego and alter.

We are led – and almost literally so, leash and all, as lead performer Kleopatra appears blindfolded onscreen by the ring of a bell, the creak of an old wooden school desk, a nervous lick of the lips and three waiting figures. Hanging in the air with it all: anticipation, intention, veneration. It’s not for nothing that the filmmakers have adopted a slower pace for this intense gangbang – there’s a meditative quality to the echoing spanks and answering whimpers, to the push and the pull, to effortless dance of desire between the four participating performers; an absolute presence of mind and an absolute presence of flesh. As with the studio’s previous Triptychon film, the composition finds its own seamless choreography across multiple perspectives, so creating stunning juxtapositions between pain and pleasure; between a hand tightened around a throat and the easy laughter in each moment of disarming tenderness; between the polish of ‘pre’ and the primal of ‘right now’…

Which is more intimate? Baring your body, or your soul? “Ask me.” Instruction? Request? Invitation? Challenge? HardWerk’s grittiest release so far is an exercise in intimacy in an orgy of anonymity with a premise whose simplicity belies its thrilling potential for raw, naked vulnerability: ask me. Starring July as herself and five masked dicks as themselves, the film not so much disregards as defies the lines between fantasy and documentary, cutting between an interview session on the streets of Berlin and a rough gang bang in a city apartment. As the action gets more intense, the pounding all the sweatier and the gathered circle of waiting cocks tighter still, so the questions also become bolder, more personal… The first of the ‘Ask Me’ series, it’s the filmmakers’ nod to Vogue’s ‘73 Questions’ …with a decidedly more hardcore approach!

Six new erotic stories based on crowdsourced sexual confessions and fantasies come to life with these XConfessions short movies. Included: ASMR; Like a Butterfly; Hirsute; Sleeping Beauty; Carpe Diem; Elemental.

Shot around the globe from the US to Columbia and then back to where it all began in Barcelona, Erika Lust releases six new explicit short films adapted from the public's anonymous sex confessions shot by Erika herself and an array of talented guest directors. Included: The Night We Met; Bailo Conmigo; Homesick; Park Ranger & Limberjack; Hey, Siro; Ink Addiction.

In the heat of a shimmering Berlin summer, Nora spends her days as a third wheel to her older sister Jule and her best friend Aylin. When Romy comes onto the scene, a friendship blossoms. Nora instantly falls for her, opening up a whole new world and unexpected summer of love.

What do you do when all eyes are on you? All hands are on you? Lips, spit, tongues, sweat, semen? In the second entry of HardWerk’s stripped-down-and-teased-out “Ask Me” docu-series, the camera is turned on Delfine Dahlia for a candid exploration of desire, sex and self. Through on-street interviews and breathless gang bang footage, it asks the question, “Where do you find freedom?” Is it in the wide-open spaces of Berlin’s Tempelhofer Feld or is it surrounded by a circle of waiting dicks behind the steel bars of a cage? For the filmmakers, the format provides an opportunity to put their full focus on the fucking, to create a production and take part in it at the same time, and to capture that ecstatic moment when fantasy becomes fact.

In the future where men have died out and their semen is the latest commodity. It’s a teasing role-reversal in which rough sex, facials and swallowing, traditionally viewed as objectifying women, instead turn men into little more than fantasy fodder and cum dispensers for a privileged princess.

The story of Maddie who leaves her hometown in the United States for the sensual streets of Barcelona to seize the opportunity to do an internship for erotic filmmaker Erika Lust. At first, she is overwhelmed by her new life and her new job, the new experiences and people she's being confronted with. But soon, sparked by her dreamy roommate Michael and her new friends, the shy All-American girl experiences a sexual awakening she could have never imagined in her wildest dreams. Meanwhile, her sister Paisely is worried about her disappearance and makes it her mission to find her. Will Paisley succeed or will she be lured into the heat of a European summer? This is a tale of sexual awakenings, erotic desire, curiosity and pleasure; this is a summer of Lust.

A queer metaphysical love story that weaves itself through real and imagined sexual encounters across darkrooms, forest cruising zones and highway shoulders. In these fantastical playgrounds, bodies are free to imagine themselves in a multiplicity of forms as they encounter other bodies without preconceived notions of what those other bodies desire, what they will need, and how they should be touched. While trusting the energetic attraction of bodies towards each other and learning through the encounter, INSTINCT simultaneously asks: what does it mean for a queer body to actively (un)learn what it might assume about another body's sex, gender, and desire?

The classical gang bang reimagined in an ‘auto-erotic’ celebration.

A chance encounter on a hot summer day in Madrid alters the lives of two men.

Every story in this digital download is inspired by a confession submitted to Erika Lust's site XConfessions.com, where anonymous members of the public submit their wildest and most personal sexual fantasies. Included: Moist; Dirty Feet; Voyeur; Jealousy Shock Therapy; Tips N Tricks for Suckin' Dicks; Intruders.

It is the year 2060 and AIDS has been eradicated. However, in some, the HIV virus has now mutated into a gene from which a drug can be produced that has become the white powder of the twenty-first century. With a virtually supported scanning system, secret police are trying to identify anyone who carries this gene. Filmed in Berlin, Taiwan-born multimedia artist and filmmaker Shu Lea Cheang’s science fiction dystopia revolves around a struggle to gain control over the production and exploitation of bodily fluids. Her film is like an orgiastic opera; a breathless round of bodies, secretions, performances and sexual acts often performed in the service of an overriding economy. An unusual, largely experimental and deliberately parapornographic drama in which the borders between the sexes as well as homo-, hetero-, bi-, trans- or intersexual are constantly blurred.

In Ger(wo)many, when an army of radical females is preparing for a final revolution and a utopian world without men, a young male soldier arrives seeking refuge at the convent.

This 8th volume contains the widest breadth of predilections yet, including Amarna Miller in full latex, public sex with Mickey Mod, arty porn with Silvia Rubí and a delicious foursome with four of the hottest names in adult entertainment. Included: Latex Sessions; Public Submission; Let Me See Your Ponytail Swing; Dacrifilia; Birthday Surprise; Memory Files Of You; Hysterical Piano Concert; Meanwhile in a Parallel Universe; Sweet But Psycho; Can Vampires Smell My Period Blood?

A diverse range of fantasies; gourmet erotica, a seductive femme fatale, and three short films from Guest Directors. Also included are the stories of a dirty doctor and a motorcycle hitchhiker; circus performers, interpretive dancers and witches; and an ode to the ultimate emancipation, female ejaculation. Included: A Lethal Femme Fatale; Dirty Doctor; The Bitchhiker; Meow Kittens Orgy; Somos Solo Cuerpo; Circus Aerius Perversus; Carne; Female Ejaculation; Horny Beasts; I Put a Pagan Spell On You.

A diverse range of fantasies; gourmet erotica, a seductive femme fatale, and three short films from Guest Directors. Also included are the stories of a dirty doctor and a motorcycle hitchhiker; circus performers, interpretive dancers and witches; and an ode to the ultimate emancipation, female ejaculation. Included: A Lethal Femme Fatale; Dirty Doctor; The Bitchhiker; Meow Kittens Orgy; Somos Solo Cuerpo; Circus Aerius Perversus; Carne; Female Ejaculation; Horny Beasts; I Put a Pagan Spell On You.

In these 10 brand new films you'll see: a cunnilingus master in a fun artsy film, the sensual powers of wine, the chronicles of a moaning neighbor, self-pleasure watched through a Go-Pro camera, an undying desire for big breasts, a striptease on Finnish tango, ass-less chaps dancing to lust, an incredibly hot BDSM story, the kinkiest threesome, and the first anal sex scene ever at XConfessions. Included: Be a Hero; The Ultimate Kink; Try My Boyfriend; Wine is the Best Lubricant; My Moaning Neighbor; His Was First in My Ass; Titty Titty Bang Bang; Chicazo; Dominate Me; Magic Magnus.

Liz walks between different rooms of the city. A bar, a toilet, a wasteland, a garden, a trailer. The cruising body can't, unlike the flaneur, be alone. She won't leave the world outside of her. Several eyes follow her: the women holding the cameras, the director. The director is sending her a love letter. The director needs her cruising body. They are a part of each others fantasies and share a dream about a city's possibility of providing safe sexy spaces. They travel together to look for the rooms in between, to find rooms of their desires.

Desire Will Set You Free is a feature film that explores life in contemporary Berlin with an often critical and sometimes humorous eye. Based on a true story, the plot follows the relationship of an American writer of Israeli/Palestinian descent and a Russian aspiring artist working as a hustler, offering access to the city's vibrant queer and underground scenes while examining the differences between expatriate and refugee life. Our characters travel through Berlin's layered history and unique subcultural landscape; on their adventures they discover influences and remnants of the Weimar Republic, WWII, the Bowie years, and punk.

This digital download showcases 10 explicit short films inspired in confessions from the public, selected and directed by Erika Lust. Included: Boat Buddies With Benefits; A Weekend in the Garden of Eden; Take Me Drunk I'm Home; Romance Bullshit; Cinéma X; Hello, Pool Boy!; I Wish I Was a Lesbian; Fräulein O.; Rush of the Forbidden; El Que No Ama No Conoce A Dios.

Shutter is the first feature film by Berlin based photographer, Goodyn Green. It is a mosaic of short, highly charged episodes of queer sexualities – each sequence carefully staged and vibrating with erotic tension. It reflects the spirit and the freedom of the Berlin lesbian scene in 2014.

With things growing a bit stale in the bedroom, lesbian couple Claudia and Dylan agree to seek sexual experiences outside their relationship. Dylan discovers new pleasures at a sex club, while Claudia, in drag as Claude, finds a surprising partner