Spit and Ashes

Film program, CH/US 2019, 75 min., engl. OV

By: Maria Beatty

With: Sadie Lune, Dion de Rossi, Daniel Maszkowicz

The new film by legendary BDSM auteur Maria Beatty is a reimagining of the historical violence waged against women by patriarchal forces in the name of religion, medicine and family. The high priestess embodies the wild, sexual and grotesque – the untamable hunger of female desire and the ultimate threat to male power. The midwife is the spirit of all women who sought knowledge and agency over their own bodies and paid with their lives. Through a series of erotic and violent rituals these women come together to reclaim their bodies and prepare for the fight ahead. The witches man failed to burn. The mothers whose scars glow with an untamed raging fury. The daughters the church tried to bury, the fierce lovers who will keep on fighting. Into the fire they will go, because we know no other way than to keep on burning.

Supporting film: Red Light Green Light

US 2019, 7 min., engl. OV
(L NX F)

By: Maegan Houang & Grace Kredell

With: Lindsay Keys, Cordelia Blanchard

Two young women are sequestered in an underground bunker. When opportunity for escape presents itself, conflict ensues and their partnership is tested.

Presented by Final Girls Film Festival