S Y N O P S I S
A documentary about making queer feminist porn. Östberg talks to the key participants in the film Share and they discuss their motivations for and experiences of making queer feminist porn. The women, who have come to Berlin from all over the western world, are inspiring in their commitment to making work that has a political agenda and through their articulate interviews present a reflexive and motivated feminist community in action.
D I R E C T O R M A R I T Ö S T B E R G
Marit Östberg is from Stockholm, Sweden, currently living in Berlin. Since making her debut as a porn-film director in the acclaimed porn compilation Dirty Diaries, Östberg has continued to produce porn. She has become a part of the queer feminist porn scene that has evolved in Europe in recent years, making films that pushes ideas of who and what porn might be for. Her films have been shown and discussed at various festivals around the world.
Östberg sees porn as a creative way of working with sexual politics, wanting to expand the possibilities of being in the world. She says: “When queers and women take their sexuality into their own hands patriarchy is lost.” Östberg also makes music videos and is working as a VJ, producing images in close cooperation with musicians.
S I S T E R H O O D / Director - Marit Östberg
Producer - Marit Östberg / Starring - Marit Östberg, Blond Stud, Mad Kate, Pau Pappel, Miruna Boruzescu
Language - English / Length - 50 min /
Östberg and her crew are incredibly intelligent people who have some fascinating ideas about the politics of pornography. But even though their ideas spring from queer feminism, the issues that they tackle through their trade extend far into general gender identity issues, and for anyone vaguely interested in this area will find what they have to say incredibly enlightening.
- James Waywood, SosoGay.com
“inspiring in their commitment to making work that has a political agenda and through their articulate interviews present a reflexive and motivated feminist community in action.”
- Nazmia Jamal, Bfi.uk.org
Selected Festival History
Schwules Museum, Berlin
Warehous9, Feminists in Space - international feminist performance art festival, Copenhagen
Copenhagen Queer Festival
London LGBT Film festival
Cine y Sexo - La Mirada Feminina, Mexico City
Filmhuset, Symposium Queer Vulnerabilities, Stockholm
Teater tribunalen, Festival Två veckor i maj, Stockholm
