Cedar Lee Gets Erotic with GV Indie Erotic Film Festival!
By Kuono • May 14th, 2009 • Category: Blog, Events, Film FestOur Indie Erotic Film Festival is making waves, and just got written up in the Cleveland Scene — Cleveland’s Cedar Lee Theatre is one of the stops for the festival’s “Second Coming Tour”. Here’s the excerpt that includes an interview with Coordinator Camilla Lombard.
Reel Cleveland: Cedar Lee Gets Erotic
The sexual double entendres are endless in the press release we got for the Good Vibrations’ IXFF: The Second Coming Tour that comes to the Cedar Lee Theatre (2163 Lee Rd., 216.321.5411, clevelandcinemas.com) at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 20. Culled from the last three Independent Erotic Film Festivals, which take place every year in San Francisco, the shorts in the program run the gamut. “The central premise is that we’re asking independent filmmakers to redefine what erotic is,” says Good Vibrations’ events and promotions coordinator Camilla Lombard. “We’ve had great success with the festival from San Francisco to Boston, and this is a greatest-hits package that features the best of the best.”
Lombard gave us the lowdown on some of the highlights: In Phil Loves San Francisco, a guy “makes sweet, sweet love to various landmarks”; Narcisisster’s Self-Gratifier is about a guy who creates “a very fascinating and complicated exercise bike”; Men is “a rather comical film about gay sex in men’s bathrooms.” At least two of the filmmakers (Madison Young and Max Royale) have gone on to become professional porn directors. “One of the things to get out of it is that sex can be pretty funny,” says Lombard. “Not that there isn’t straight-up hardcore sex. But some narrative does make the film more engaging, whether it ends up being hardcore sex at the end of the tunnel or not.” To introduce the erotic evening, Good Vibrations prez Dr. Carol Queen, who calls herself the “staff sexologist and chief cultural officer,” will give a brief history lesson for those who think porn begins and ends with Jenna Jameson.
Defining and redefining our own individual expressions of erotic images through film is an amazing experience, and goes to show just how varried sex can be. Check out our film festival’s own website GV-IXFF.org for the tour line-up and information about submitting your own film.
Kuono >> Magazine Editor, Web Producer at GoodVibes.com and manager of the Good Vibrations Affiliate Program (GVAffiliates.com). Okay, back to work.
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