ALCHEMY OF THE MEAT
Mahx Capacity / United States / 2023 / 8 min
Friday, November 10 / 9 pm / Grand Illusion Cinema / TICKETS
Break the flesh / unleash the spirit / the soul is feral / the body is meat.
As Mia Secreto (they/she) begins the ritual offering of their prostrated body, high priests Empress Wu (all pronouns) and Priestex (they/them) embrace the mortification of the flesh in a mouthy, wet, fisting, frenzy. Secreto’s siren call echoes from the depths, and Wu and Priestex are pulled to the limits of their self control as they consecrate Mia’s body in a ravenous frenzy with their fists, mouths, hands, and gaze. But who holds the power in this ritual? The apotheosis of the body reclaiming itself unlocks a force few mortals can withstand.
*Note: Contains scenes of piercing, blood.
Included in the DARK FANTASY short program
Director Biography – Mahx Capacity
Mahx Capacity (they/them) is one of the original founders and the current owner and Creative Director of AORTA films. A white, fat, trans/non-binary, taurean pleasure prince, they’re obsessed with wielding queer porn to send cultural fault lines out into the world to disrupt it for the better. Working at the intersections of sextech and regenerative economics with a background in experimental performance, Mahx is drawn to queer porn’s capacity for destabilizing pleasure, fierce vulnerability, and complex humanity.
AORTA films is an award-winning studio creating explicit, experimental queer cinema: lusty, opulent, glorious, f*ckery.
Led by Creative Director Mahx Capacity, AORTA films produces monthly short films and long-term feature projects, as well as a range of innovative programming including festivals, guest artists, workshops, and commercial collaborations. Our films center performers across a wide range of bodies and identities. Hailing from queer BDSM community and experimental performance contexts, our studio works collaboratively, prioritizing safe and enthusiastically consensual working processes. We’re obsessed with creating hot, kinky content that celebrates queer identity and explodes with destabilizing pleasure.
AORTA’s work has been presented at screenings, galleries, festivals, and museums, across the USA, South America, and Europe, including the Berlin, London, Vienna, and Athens Porn Film Festivals, Hacker Porn Film Festival (Rome), POP PORN (Brazil), Excéntrico Fest (Chile), MIX Copenhagen, International Queer and Migrant Film Festival (Amsterdam), Berlin Feminist Film Week, Hot Bits (Philly), SECS Fest (Seattle), BRIEFS (Oakland), EVERYBOOTY at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (NYC), Kink Out at MoMa PS1 (NYC), and the Institute of Contemporary Arts (London). Our films have been commissioned by The Invisible Dog Art Center, and supported by a grant from the Effing Foundation for Sex-Positivity.
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