Line up for SECS Fest 2019 has been finalized

SECS Fest 2019 is just around the corner. And we are excited to announce that the film selections have been made and we will be publishing the full line up of erotic short films and features here in the next few days.

Congratulations to all of the filmmakers who submitted their new erotic works for inclusion in the festival. Notifications were sent on July 11. If you submitted, please check in at filmfreeway.

Our final event before SECS Fest (September 6 & 7), will be a compilation of some of our favorite erotic short film that played previous SECS Festivals.

Best of SECS Fest – Short films

Wednesday, August 21 – 9pm

Grand Illusion Cinema

 

 

The films:

House of Air (UK, 2017, 4 min)
d. Brian Fairbairn & Karl Eccleston

Aridai
Goodbye
Sonata
That’s Why I Like It
Oh, Baby
F*ck Yes: Fingers
House of Air
Boner Loaner
The Pick-up
The Wheel of Fortune
See Me

So mark your calendars and I plan to see you at Best of SECS Fest: Shorts and SECS Fest 2019 for exciting, new erotic films for every taste.

Sonata (Germany, 2015, 19 min)
d. David Bloom

Best of SECS Fest begins Tuesday

Starting on Tuesday, July 2nd, is our Best of SECS Fest series.

On July 2, we revisit the opening feature of 2018, Fantasy by director Dashiell Demeter. Fantasy is about a couple who begins a very unusual and surprising relationship counselling with Dr. Harvey Bunuel.

Synopsis:

Nina and Norman are in a bit of a troubled relationship. In an attempt to improve their marriage, Nina books an appointment with renowned sex therapist Dr. Harvey Buñuel. Over the course of five sessions Harvey has them participate in surreal therapy methods that are designed to help with their intimacy problems.

Details:

FANTASY
Directed by Dashiell Demeter
USA, 2017
63 minutes

Tuesday, July 2 – 9 pm
Grand Illusion Cinema
$10 (general admission)
$7 (Students/Seniors)
$5 (Members)
Box office opens 30 min prior. Cash only.

*No one under 18 admitted*

Coming in August –

BEST of SECS Fest – Shorts
Wednesday, August 21 – 9pm
Grand Illusion Cinema

EQUATION TO AN UNKNOWN

In just a week, we’re presenting the only erotic “masterpiece and the best French gay porn ever made” from painter Francis Savel (directing under the pseudonym Dietrich de Velsa), EQUATION TO AN UNKNOWN.

EQUATION would have remained an obscure and largely forgotten film, were it not for director Yann Gonzalez (Knife + Heart) having new 16mm prints of the film struck from negative found in the lab. We are fortunate to be able to present a new restoration of this film, that Yann Gonzalez has named as his favorite Gay porn.

The film follows the erotic imaginings of a motorcycle riding loner. After a first viewing, I was struck by the quiet melancholy of this atmospheric dreamscape of a film, where we are invited to gaze upon the bodies of youthful football players and gas station attendants as they are dreamed by the protagonist. The result is a series of sexual vignettes that dissolve into our protagonist’s sense of loneliness and longing.

And you can see it on Friday, June 22 at 9pm at the Grand Illusion Cinema.

Equation to an Unknown
Dir. Dietrich de Velsa
France, 1980
99 minutes

New HD Restoration!

 

A handsome young stud rides his motorcycle through myriad sexual fantasies, from a soccer game’s locker room to a dreamy and unsettling orgy where the porn reaches its melancholic peak. This undiscovered erotic film is a labyrinth of all-male fantasies whose outstanding beauties always end up fading away while leaving their sensual protagonist dealing with his own loneliness. Directed with absolute grace by the mysterious Dietrich de Velsa (aka Francis Savel / Frantz Salieri): this former painter was also the owner and artistic director of one of the first transvestites’ cabaret of Paris, La Grande Eugène. Years later, he collaborated with Joseph Losey on Mr. Klein and Don Giovanni. EQUATION TO AN UNKNOWN is his only film and stands without a doubt as a masterpiece. It’s also director Yann Gonzalez’s (KNIFE+HEART) favorite gay porn film!

 *No one under 18 admitted

 

Peace, Love, & Hardcore.

After a long hiatus, we have returned with a new event of nearly 50 year-old media.

On Tuesday, May 28, we are again teaming up with the Sprocket Society to present some old-timey dirty movies. We cannot divulge the titles as they come from private collections. But what we can say is that on May 28, we will be presenting the kind of film program that would be watched in small venues that catered to the “raincoat” crowd in the late 1960s and early 1970s, but in a larger and less seedy atmosphere.

We will be showing two short films from the 1960s, before a very low-budget 1973 feature. Personally, I have a soft-spot for the erotica of the 60s and early 70s as there’s a palpable optimism and experimental ambition to these films that have largely languished in trash bins or forgotten in attics. And the narratives that quickly became the over-used, but always amusing, tropes of pornographic films were new.

16mm SMUT SHOW II: Peace, Love, & Hardcore

Boogie down to the theater for a secret 1970s feature film with one of the foxiest far-out stars of the era. This low budget artifact captures the spirit of the months following the breakout success of Behind the Green Door and Deep Throat, when everyone was attempting to capitalize on the emergence of the Golden Age. What this film lacks in glitz and polish, more than makes up for in fun and enthusiasm. The feature will follow a selection of short nudie films that appear to be made in the time of the summer of love. All on groovy 16mm!

** No one under 18 admitted **

And finally, it is not too late to submit your erotic short film or feature length work for inclusion in SECS Fest 2019. But the Late submission deadline is this Friday. Submit today.