Looking Back – by Porn Film Festival Amsterdam
This film block was screened at Porn Film Festival Amsterdam, earlier this year.
For a long time, the only places you could watch porn were small, not-too-obvious venues, and usually under the shadow of censorship and the constant threat of closure. Through archival footage and first-hand recollections, we revisit some of these sites: Theatro Gil Vicente in Barcelos, the Mineshaft in Marseille, Bada theatre in Seoul. We also meet Lynnee Breedlove, who spearheaded Homobiles, a queer cab service in San Francisco, and Luz Emilia García, one of the precursors of porn cinema in Colombia. We look back to cherish the oft-forgotten treasures of those who broke ground way before us.
The screening is a fundraiser for a nascent space for pornography and community in Cali, Colombia.