9 October
Retrospective of
Sakura Ardila Ortíz + Q&A
Kissable Screens
Sakura Ardila’s films are an exploration of porn history, dating back to 18th-century novels to 20th-century porn films. Her work delves into the archives of humanity’s sexual pleasures through homage. She sees pornography as a tool for arousal and entertainment, and criticises the erasure of those intentions as a homogenising force under political agendas. People’s sexual tastes and kinks represented by pornography are a memory of our sexuality’s diversity. Therefore, Sakura’s work is made for arousal, full of stories that couldn’t be shown in any other way but as porn. They make you laugh, cry, and get horny. She does this while poking on topics such as online sex work in Colombia, and the complexities of human relationships.
After the screening, Sakura will connect online for a Q&A with the audience. Her porn-comic La amazona y la piedra mágica (The Amazon and the Magical Stone) will be on sale too. It doesn’t have any written text; it is pure visual horniness. So no language requirements.
Total running time 60 min + Q&A
All films are Spanish spoken with English subtitles.
Donderdag 9 oktober, 20:30
SEX-POSITIVE
Kissable Screens:
Retrospective of Sakura Ardila Ortíz + Q&A
Una técnica fantástica (A fantastic technique)
Sakura Ardila Ortiz | 2022 | 10’
I made this film mainly because fantasy and porn have always played an important role when I masturbate and because the way in which I masturbate has almost no representation in the media. In the film I talk about this, I show pieces of my porn collection (books, magazines and a dvd) and I also explain in detail how I masturbate.
El sonido de tu cuerpo (The sound of your body)
Sakura Ardila Ortiz | 2025 | 8’ | only audio
This audio piece reminds those horny phone calls where our imagination produces the arousal. But what happens when the call transforms into a story with an unexpected final?
Reunión de estudio (Study meeting)
Sakura Ardila Ortiz | 2023 | 3’
Kevin, a university student, visits his classmate, Paco, because they need to work on a presentation for a course. Paco's relationship with his pet, Coco, surprises and ends up disgusting Kevin.
Entrena a tu perra (Train your Bitch)
Sakura Ardila Ortiz | 2023 | 10’
A bitch trainer, Dylan, is starting a video series on how to train a bitch. Every day he is going to upload a video in which he teaches his new bitch, Cleopatra, a new trick. At first everything goes fine. Then, not so much.
PRIMERA VEZ (First time)
Sakura Ardila Ortiz | 2022-2023 | 5’
A young woman, Leidi, is making porn for the first time. The studio owner, Andrea, tells her that the cameras wont show her face, they were set up for it. The young woman gets naked and touches her body. The studio owner is not telling her everything.
Friend zone
Sakura Ardila Ortiz | 2023 | 10’
Lucía just broke up with her boyfriend. Her friend, Edwin, tries to comfort her when Lucía’s ex suddenly shows up
Sakucosas
Sakura Ardila Ortiz | 2025 | 14’
We close this retrospective with a video essay that helps us knot all the previous films together. Sakura invites us in this film to think about porn history and the diversity of sexual pleasures from her own tastes and archival explorations.