In English – the Shift Lectures at Malmö University

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Shift Lecture #99

Dirty Diaries and female porn movies
A female gaze – another view?
Anna Span, porn film director, Great Britain.
Ingrid Ryberg, film director and film researcher, Stockholm university.
Joanna Rytel, artist och porn film producer.
Mariah Larsson, film researcher, Malmö university.

Today there is a growing interest for alternative pornographic film – for ”female”, ”feminist” and ”queer” ways of portraying sexuality and lust. This trend is seen also in Sweden with the film Dirty Diaries – a series of erotic short movies, produced by women using cell phone cameras. The film Dirty Diaries is made with support from The Swedish Film Institute.

Is this a shift in the view on women, feminism and sexuality, erotic film and the discussion about the negative and oppressive effects of pornography? What makes a porn movie feminist?

Anna Span Anna Span started shooting porn films after graduating from Central St Martin's School of Art with a BA Hons in Fine Art (Film & Video) in 1998. It was there that she wrote her dissertation 'Towards A New Pornography' in which she analysed what a female perspective on porn would look like.

http://www.annaspansdiary.com/

Ingrid Ryberg is one of the directors of Dirty Diaries. She is a researcher at Stockholm university, working on a thesis called: Authenticity and difference in pornographic representations of female sexual pleasure.
http://www.film.su.se/pub/jsp/polopoly.jsp?d=7686&a=28634
http://www.sfi.se/sv/svensk-film/Filmdatabasen/?type=MOVIE&itemid=66210

Joanna Rytel is an artist and contributes in Dirty Diaries with her film ”Flasher girl on tour”. Through the group of artists ”Unfucked Pussy” she did a famous action of protest against the finals of the Miss Sweden contest in 2001.

Mariah Larsson is a researcher at Malmö university. Ph D, comparative literature emphasis film. Teaching: "Sexuality in words and images". Postdoctoral fellowship from Swedish Research Council, project: "The Exhibition of Pornographic Films in Malmö 1971-c. 1980.”
http://www.mah.se/templates/ExternalNews____96718.aspx

We show parts of Dirty Diaries and examples from Anna Spans production.

Moderator: Lars Mogensen, free lance journalist.
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The library, top floor, Orkanen.
Malmö university.
Nordenskiöldsgatan 10
Monday september 7 th, at 7 pm.
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