This will be the first Christmas holiday that I won’t be spending in my country of birth and with blood family…and I’m not entirely sure how I should be feeling. But I do know that I love and adore my chosen family, community and that Berlin is home to me.
I’ve never had so much fun and joy in decorating a tree.
Breathtaking documents Morgana’s first on screen exploration with a woman as well as her first experience with breath play.
A film featuring breathplay (Erotic asphyxiation) combined with sensual, soft touch.
A beautiful, intense weekend between two friends.
The short film features Caritia, a practitioner of conscious kink who expertly guides the play. Transitioning from softly spoken domination to intensely erotic, powerful control. She is a a wildly erotic, London born, Berlin based artist/creative of Afro-Caribbean decent.with over 18 years of experience within BDSM.
The film also features feminist heartthrob of the year Morgana Muses in one of her most intense roles to date. Watch as she grapples with a fear of drowning and a desire to push herself to extremes.
Premiered in San Francisco at the Morgana Muses Erotic Retrospecitve.
Official Selection 2017 Cinekink Screened at Fish & Chip Film Festival Italy 2017 SPECIAL MENTION: BREATHTAKING by Morgana Muses (2016, Australia, 17′) “For documenting in first person how the research of pleasure can go beyond the body limits. For showing how spontaneity, trust and abandon are necessary to reach an unexplored extasy.”
A short BDSM documentary that explores the workshop culture in Berlin and focuses on conscious BDSM practitioner Caritia.
Ritual + Worship is a character study that tracks the practise of Caritia as she prepares for her upcoming workshop, ritual and worship. We learn about her journey through life and how her various disciplines coalesce into the perfect symbiosis of spiritual, ritual and mindful practice.
About Caritia: “wildly erotic, London born, Berlin based artist/creative of Afro-Caribbean decent, with over 18 years of experience within BDSM. A conscious kink practitioner, a lifestyle Dominant, a presenter, a photographer, a model, a teacher, a performer and a strong advocate of self-empowerment for all, working from a female led perspective”
Completed shooting in late 2015. Post Production begins early 2016, to be completed mid 2016.
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The Workshop in Detail:
From the website: We participate in routines every day. We consume, waste, devour, take, tease, abuse, wear, tear, talk, break rules, as well as follow instructions. We are constantly in the manner of doing. Whether this is habit formed, socially pressured, peer expected, the reasons are many and varied, with little time to consider the ‘why’ of an act. Would we perhaps look at each of these parts of our day differently, if we valued the essentiality of these elements in our lives.
This work is about reclaiming rites of passage. A moment to pause. Honouring the beauty of simple task. The worship of a passion. Surrendering into receiving. The pursuit of giving. Discovering the meditation in the menial. Respecting rules and following of a guide. The jubilation of a body content in it’s chosen place. Our bodies have much to share, often we are too busy doing, rather than listening. So it is in our lives and connections.
In this time we will work together with the aim to reignite the value of each moment. We will explore the essence of tasks requested and undertaken. What supports each of us through the mundane? A smile from one whom we admire, perhaps. The approval of a job well done. Acceptance of an act not favoured, for the chance to gaze in the eyes of the tormentor.
We will dive into what our natures, cycles and biorhythms, attending to what is waiting to be expressed or exposed. What are our wants. Dare we speak our inner truth. Inflaming our devotion to live in the beauty of now. Seeking the pleasure in the details without religious dogma or dictatorship. Without guilt or shame, embracing what we love (our quirks and kinks). Invoking our personal alchemy and delving into those things which bring us to life. The erotic pleasure of serving (giving) and being served (receiving). Fearlessly demanding, courageously taking, unquestioningly accepting, continuously committed to reaching our core. Discovering the joy, self confidence and self belief those acts can bring.
Through experimentation with ritual, honouring and worship we will ride to other levels of ourselves. Appreciating the structure, as well as the restructuring of our boundaries and personal limits. Giving way to the freedom to truly breath and be our authentic selves, supported and without judgement. The essence is self exploration with your follow participants being your mirrors.
This workshop can include exercises in meditation, breath and vocal work, icebreakers, movement and grounding exercises. Primal play, explorations into power and energy exchange, acceptance and surrender, sensation play, gender dynamics, gender fluidity, open attention, presence and listening. BDSM elements will also be introduced and can include D/s, role play, pain/pleasure play, sensory deprivation, bondage, humiliation.
This workshop will work with R.A.C.K principals and an open dialogue regarding consent.
Morgana Muses will be making her co-presenter déébut in this work. Together we aim to provide a safe, supportive and fun space to experiment and explore the boundaries of ritual and worship.
Two years ago, Morgana Muses became enamoured as she watched a dance between friends descend into one of the most beautiful displays of eroticism she had ever had the pleasure of being able to gaze at.
The Kissing Whip- is an artistic, filmic recreation and elaboration on Morganas voyeuristic experience. Watching the two beautiful creatures dance and then explore pain, power and performance.
Completed in 2016. Available on Erika Lust. Stay tuned to our blog, morganas twitter or our facebook for news and updates on this project.
When Josie joins me in Europe and we finish shooting our films, it’s off for a little cultural and historical packed holiday that culminates with us attending an opera. Prague being our destination on this occasion.
We didn’t get off to a good start as my wallet was stolen from my hand bag as Josie and I jostled to board the Prague bound train. It was later recovered and returned to me with all of the cash missing but thankfully the debit cards left in place.
We managed to get an upgrade and a complimentary bottle of wine on our second night as the hotel we had booked overlooked our request for twin beds and we had a technician trying to connect the internet for most of our first evening.
Josie was over the moon that we have TWO toilets in our Executive Room and a 24hour Gym & Sauna available.
We had the best view overlooking the city when we took a tour and climbed to the top of the Astronomical Clock Tower.
Another highlight for us was taking a tour not too far outside of Prague to visit the Bone Church at Kutná Hora. I was left worried and hoping just for a little while, that Josie was going to return for me, after she had asked me to take a seat inside the Church and wait for her.
No holiday would be complete for us, if we didn’t include a visit to an old cemetery, so we went and had a visit to the Old Jewish Cemetery.
It’s a pity that I’m not a real beer drinker but the opportunity to have a beer spa (with unlimited beer on tap to drink) was just too much of a ridiculous and novel opportunity to miss.
We ‘dolled’ ourselves up for a night at the opera to watch ‘Salome’ at the Prague State Opera and of course talking the obligatory selfies in the process.
Prague, you are a truly beautiful and magical city, we had a great time.
Well, in terms of shooting our new films to be released in 2016, that is!
‘The Kissing Whip’ brings together two professional dancers that are also involved in the Kink/BDSM. The result is a mesmerising combination of dance and flogging.
‘Rituals And Worship’ is a documentary based on the workshop of the same name that is facilitated by my beautiful friend Caritia.
The Berlin Porn film festival is like nothing you have seen before.
It is thousands of porn loving, sexuality exploring, happiness promoting, curiosity provoking people drawn together to one little cinema to celebrate human sexuality captured on screen. It is a very necessary festival. It offers film makers who create art that includes pornographic content a space to screen their work. It allows us to celebrate with others who are like minded in thinking that we must return sex to the screen in all its varied and realistic glory and see all the incredible ways people from around the world are choosing to frame sex.
This year Permission 4 Pleasure had two films screening. We will do a separate post about that experience.
This is a review of some of the amazing films we saw. Political, artistic and fucking good sex.
Context for these reviews: Going into the festival I didn’t really have an idea about what the films could and would be like. I assumed it was going to be not porn like on the internet. But other than assuming the content would be more interesting than an hour long clips 4 sale video I wasn’t really sure what I would see.
Without further ado, here are some of our reviews from the Berlin porn film festival
Nova Dubai was a film that lingered on my mind long after I finished watching it. It was a beautifully staged and performed piece about friends who need to disrupt the construction that is happening in their neighbourhood, ruining childhood memories. Something about the slow trickle of interesting snippets from memories about each character through their own anecdotes made for a perplexing mix of sweetness and sombre reality.
We are just so pleased porn like this exists! They describe it as “A lovable pornographic comedy, playfully posing questions on the subject relationship, love, sex and jealousy in addition to its explicit sex scenes” which perfectly nails this film. It is enjoyable to watch the four leads go about, finding themselves. Beautifully shot, nicely stylized (colour pallet to font to costume all a-game!) this is the type of narrative film that doesn’t force gratuitous sex into scenes that are otherwise not sexual, this film does sex justice. It tells narratives about sex, with sex that should be told, explored and elaborated upon. For the sake of the children!
This film was so simple and so beautiful. The nature imagery juxtaposed with a woman having her shaved and then cocooned was so striking! I can’t say much else about it but that it was sublimely intoxicating, even though it was a distressing act to watch.
I found the politics and story behind the creation of this project particularly interesting. I have always thought (and cinemas history tells us) that through limitation and censorship some of the best creative work arounds have been forced. House Boy, a film made in the wake of the recent UK Laws(read amazing summary/ thoughts on Pandoras blog) is a lovely little tale of a mistress dealing with introducing a new house boy to her fold.
This picture doesn’t do the colour of this film justice. A political porn from Barcelona about a ghost running through the streets turning regular citizens into perverts. All the scenes are public space scenes with reactions from by standers that are amazing!
The Berlin porn film festival is one of those festival experiences that leaves you feeling excited for the future. It was so amazing to see the porn community making so many inventive, beautiful and engaging films.
‘Breathtaking’ new for Permission4Pleasure in 2016.
The two day shoot in the beautiful surroundings of our location was more like a friends weekend away. In some ways it really was as we are all close friends. Berlin turned on a breathtaking sunset the night before the shoot as we had a drink to celebrate our friendship and first collaboration.
A film exploring breath play was filled with so many ‘firsts’ for me. This wouldn’t have been possible if I didn’t have the utmost trust in my co-performer Caritia and in Josie as cinematographer, to handle shooting such an intimate and personal scene.
Judging by some of the rushes, I do believe that the final edit of the film will be visually breathtaking!
This year the Pornfilmfestival Berlin celebrated its 10th ‘Anniversary. I was excited to have been invited to be one of the Feature Film Competiton Jury. We had two films included in the program, ‘It’s My Birthday And I’ll Fly If I Want To’ and the world premiere of ‘Having My Cake’. It was wonderful to have Josie join me to represent and network for Team P4P. I attended as a ‘Berliner’. Last but not least, five days of great smut viewing, awesome people to hang out with and way too many parties for this ‘old lady’ to keep up with.
It was wonderful seeing Josie experiencing first hand, what being a member of the ‘Pornfilmfestival Family’ is really like, and why I consider them to be my chosen family. So much porn, so many new connections, as well as reuniting with ‘old friends’….so many exciting collaborations in discussion and to look forward to!
Congratulations, and a huge thankyou to all involved in putting on this incredible, sold out festival.
Then it was off to Tegel Airport to pick up Josie from her long haul flight from Melbourne. The Permission4Pleasure Team reuniting to attend the Pornfilmfestival that starts this Wednesday and of course to shoot more films for us. It was VIP treatment for Josie, being picked from the airport by Cora Schönherr, a member of the Pornfilmfestival welcoming committee.
Welcome Josie! To Berlin and your ‘Berlin Family’.