Dacia’s Love Machine World Premiere in Berlin on October 25th

Dacia’s Love Machine is the story of a girl (me!) who has acquired a sex machine for review and then tries to get rid of it via Craigslist. As you might imagine, hilarity ensues.

In the past month, the above six minute preview of my new short film Dacia’s Love Machine has been watched almost 10,000 times on YouTube – but only a handful of people have seen the 25 minute director’s cut because of problems with credit card processing.

I’m excited to say that as of yesterday, the store is back up and running, so if you can pony up $2.99 you can check out Dacia’s Love Machine as it was meant to be seen – with nine more peculiar people parading through my apartment to look at the Love Machine. I have a real credit card processor now, not a third party processor – its totally secure and keeps you on Waking Vixen for the whole process instead of sending you elsewhere to do the businessy parts.

So please join the small but widening circle of people who are watching Dacia’s Love Machine and being amused by it – right now the internet is the only place where the film can seen, but that’s going to change next week.

On Saturday, October 25th Dacia’s Love Machine is having its World Premiere on the big screen at the Berlin Porn Film Festival. I’ll be there too – preceding the screening I’ll be talking about my career in new media and sexuality, and afterwards I’ll be hosting a discussion about the trials and tribulations of being a sex toy reviewer.

I went to the Berlin Porn Film Festival last October to screen The Bi Apple and to participate in a panel about porn by and for women, and it was a really awesome experience. Berlin is really fun and I felt right at home there, since you can get food at obscure hours of the night and it’s a very active and artsy place. In addition to screening Dacia’s Love Machine I’ll be giving this workshop:

What Does Feminist Porn Look Like? at the Berlin Porn Film Festival, October 24, 2008 from 4-6 pm. Number of participants limited to 20, all genders welcome. Fee: 25 €, registration via email to office@pornfilmfestivalberlin.de. Exact location TBA!
In the last few years, feminist, independent, queer, and alt pornographies have become a visible and viable part of the adult industry, to the excitement of many porn fans, performers, and producers. But there are still a lot of arguments about whether or not porn can be feminist and ethical, and what exactly that looks like.

In this workshop, we’ll deconstruct the meaning of feminist porn and then try to put it back together again in photos and video that will be produced during the session.

We’ll evaluate some examples of sexual media and discuss whether or not they are feminist, and how to tell whether or not they are ethically produced. Then, we’ll set up a scene with a live model (the workshop leader!) and experiment with shooting in a feminist and ethical way. Will what we make challenge assumptions about feminism and porn? Is it possible to make images by ethical and feminist producers look different than other images?

Participants are encouraged to bring their cameras and come prepared to shoot either stills or video. Amateurs are more than welcome!

I’ll be sure to write a full report of how it all goes – though I think I’m actually not going to bring my laptop with me, so I probably won’t be updating a daily play by play.

And if you’ll be there, come say hi! I’ll be checking out lots of different screenings and definitely hanging out at the Nacht Bar so I can see what peculiar entertainments the PFF crew has cooked up for this year.