A Decade(nce) of PopPorn Brazil Shorts

Shortfilm program, 87 min.

A Decade(nce) of PopPorn: 10 years of the Brazilian sex film festival

Since the coup d’état that unfairly removed our first woman president from office, Brazil is going through one of the worst times in its history. The election of our fascist current president, Jair Bolsonaro, in 2018 changed and charged the political environment of our country, exploding with violence especially in the faces of the black, indigenous and LGBTQ population (Brazil is the country that kills most LGBTQ people in the world). The constant attacks on arts, media and culture, defunding of film and theater projects, the abandoning of our cinematheque (closed for more than a year) were terrible predictions of what was about to come during the COVID-19 pandemic, that until now killed more than half a million Brazilians.

PopPorn Festival premiered in São Paulo in 2011 as a product of the queer and creative mind of the brilliant late Suzy Capó, as a latin arm of Pornfilmfestival Berlin. Back then, the situation was not favorable, but we felt that the event could help bring awareness and open minds regarding sex and sexuality. Even then, Suzy would talk about the need to fight back against religious oppression in a secular state. The decade was only beginning but, ten years later, with the current situation, we could no longer produce the festival. We could not even celebrate our tenth edition last year, due to quarantine, lack of funds and staff and, above all, not feeling safe in our home to organize this edition.

With an invitation by our mothership, Pornfilmfestival Berlin, PopPorn Festival can finally celebrate a little of our 10 years in short films that were the highlight of these editions. We share with you our very first festival spot from 2011; a trash political film made for the first year (“Transtarah“); a poetic early work of our partner in crime, Gustavo Vinagre (“Film For Blind Poet“); the gay extravaganza of “Uranus“ by Daniel Nolasco; the anti-imperialist “Latifundium“, a work of art by Érica Sarmet; the delicate Lesbian sexuality of “Liquid Love“ (directed by two women and now in the Erika Lust collection); the music video and documentary “Etérea“ (PFFB 2019) for a song by Criolo and against the homo and transphobia of the Bolsonaro government; and two deep reflections on queer life, “A Fome da Pele“ (PFFB Competition 2019) and “The Skin’s Chest“ (PFFB 2020). We hope you enjoy and a happy decade(nce) for us!

Tino Monetti

PopPorn Spot [Year 1], Caco Neves & Ilan Wainstein, BR 2011, 2 min, 1 min, no dialogue
Transtarah, Dacio Pinheiro, BR 2011, 9 min, port. OV + engl. UT
Film for Blind Poet, Gustavo Vinagre, BR 2012, 26 min, port. OV + engl. UT
Uranus, Daniel Nolasco, BR 2013, 7 min, no dialogue
Latifundium, Érica Sarmet, BR 2017, 12 min, port. OV + engl. UT
Liquid Love, Carolina Albuquerque & Isadora Vieira, BR 2018, 5 min, port. OV + engl. UT
A Fome da Pele (The Flesh’s Hunger), Marcello D’Avilla & Marcelo Denny, BR 2018, 5 min, no dialogue
Etérea – Criolo (music video), Gabriel Dietrich & Gil Inoue, BR 2019, 5 min, port. OV + engl. UT
Etérea – Criolo (making of), Pedro Inoue & Tino Monetti, BR 2019, 9 min, port. OV + engl. UT
O Peíto de Pele (The Skin’s Chest), Keythe Tavares & Rudolfo Auffinger, BR 2019, 9 min, port. OV + engl. UT

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