Permission 4 Pleasure at The Festival Of Really Good Sex

We just wrapped up our session as part of The Festival of Really Good Sex 2018

“Learning how to give yourself permission to experience pleasure is a process many of us struggle with. Morgana Muses has been documenting her own journey from repressed, celibate housewife to award winning ethical pornographer at the tender age of 48 since 2012. This workshop will feature a selection of her erotic films which document her sexual exploration and feature an introduction and Q&A at the end of the screening.”

Josie and I had a fun day with a beautiful group of people, sharing my films and taking these interesting pictures of me while we had access to the projector. We can’t thank the team at the festival enough for putting on such a wonderful festival.
If you get a chance, we encourage you to attend the next one. You can sign up for their news letter here. The school runs events around Australia.

Officially selected for TPFF

More fantastic news for Permisison 4 Pleasure. We have had both our 2018 projects selected for Toronto international porn film festival.

 

It is always an honour to have our work screen along side so many other amazing, creative and boundary-pushing artists and directors. We can’t wait to see what the festival holds this year. Check out the full screening details as they come out here

 

 

Honourable Best Mention at Cinekink

Our newest short documentary film Rituals + Worship  has scored an honorable best mention in the documentary category at Cinekink 2018. This film was made out of a passion for sharing intimate portraits of BDSM practitioners to help represent a wider array of sexualities, so we are absolutely thrilled it was received well. We of course must thank Caritia, our wonderful subject who was gracious enough to let us into her life and her work and who opened up to us and told us her story.

Morgana featured in Nat Ords Rise! exhibition

Morgana was featured as one of 10 women in Nat Ord’s new exhibition, Rise! 

Rise! surveys ten inspirational and forging women, through portrait and story, from the North East Victorian and Murray regions.

Standing tall in vast and varied fields from community service and environment, to sport and entertainment, the women celebrated in Nat Ord’s environmental portraits have pushed boundaries and paved ways in their quest for voice, recognition and success. Morgana was also interviewed for the Border Mail along with some of the other subjects.

Josie and Morgana at the opening with the portrait
Morgana with Nat Ords portrait of her

London Porn Film Festival Official Selection 2018

Wow, Rituals + Worship has been selected for another festival. We have been fans of the London Porn Film Festival since it began. Its commitment to accessibility is hugely encouraging. This year, we are lucky enough to have been selected and will be screened as part of the following session:

We’re not taking it lying down 

Time to rise up! Britain’s draconian censorship laws – made even worse with the addition of unsafe, data-mining age checks this year – are hitting hard against the queer porn scene. That makes our whole festival a political protest at its core, but this programme zooms in on films that directly deal with the politics of porn itself. Channeling sex workers’ realities, challenges to the hegemony of commercial porn and raucous pornoanarchic protests, this a call to join us and take on the censorship laws head-on!

Amateurs Professionnels EP3 Fred W Dewitt and Carmina France
First period Courtney Trouble USA
Fuck the Fascism in Rome Maria Basura Chile/Italy
Full Mahx Capacity USA
Of Flesh & Love Paul Salvatori Canada
Pizza Roles Danny Tayara and Ari Chivukula Canada
Ritual and Worship Morgana Muses Australia/Germany
Thirst for Revenge Maria Basura and Jorge Benavides Chile
Trump N’ Dump I. Que Grande USA
Yes Campaign Ms Naughty Australia

Screening

Saturday 14 April 22.30 Tickets HERE

Also, Bishop Black, the fabulous performer is featured as the special guest! (We collaborated with him back in 2015 on Having My Cake, and he is a legend)

Hot Bits- Official Selection

Rituals + Worship has been selected for another film festival, this time in the US, we are so happy to have it selected for the Hot Bits film festival, which screens in Baltimore and Philadelphia.

Ticketing info:

PHILADELPHIA
Friday, March 23rd 8pm (doors at 7:30)  Vox Populi
319 N. 11th St. 3rd Floor  (space is wheelchair accessible)
Saturday, March 24th  8pm (doors at 7:30)
reserve tickets here
facebook event page
BALTIMORE
Saturday, March 31st 8pm (doors at 7:30) Creative Alliance
3134 Eastern Ave.  (space is wheelchair accessible)
Sunday, April 1st7pm (doors at 6:30) 

Rituals + Worship Premieres in Italy

Rituals + worship, our short doco featuring Caritia is having its world premiere this summer in Italy at Fish & Chips Film Festival in Torino. This sex positive festival which has their mission statement: “We believe in eroticism as a basic need of human beings and we want to show sex from different points of view, be they psychological, physical or social, but in any case liberating and non-discriminatory” which we love.

Permission 4 Pleasures new films screening Cinekink 2018

Our two newest films, Rituals + Worship and Labia of Love are officially selected for Cinekink 2018! It’s always an honour to be included in this long-running, New York festival and we love having our films screened for their audiences.

Labia of Love is screening:

CINEKINK SCREENINGS – THURSDAY, 3/15 – SATURDAY, 3/17
Anthology Film Archives, 32 Second Avenue (@ 2nd Street), NYC

CineKink Season Opener!
Thursday, March 15 @ 7:00 pm Come Again? buy tickets
Blow Job 2017
Rusalka
Shapeshifters
Sunday With Aleta
F*ck Yes: Bucket List
Devourable
Labia of Love
Tie Me Up! A Shibari Documentary
Writing in Bed

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And  Rituals + Woship

Saturday, March 17 @ 9:45 pm / Give & Take buy tickets
Switch Hitter
Don’t Fuck With England
Control Room
Aspik
Reverence / Violence
Rituals + Worship
Library Hours
Switch
Driven
Black Out
Breathe

FREE – drink a toast to our filmmakers!

 

 

New website up for the Documentary about Morgana and Rituals & Worship underway

Recently I blogged about how the documentary about my life came to be.  Now the girls making it (Josie  Hess and Isabel Peppard) have gotten their website up and running. Morganadocumentary.com is live, it houses a bunch of information on the documentary project for those of you interested to know more.

 

We also recently were covered by the ABC in an article about myself and Josie and the documentary project ‘Morgana’ – how incestuous ;)

“I just found that once I reached a certain age and once I was married and had children that I was expected to just dwindle in the background and not be able to explore my desires,” Muses said.”

 

Read the full article here.

Caritia and Morgana on Ritual & Worship

 

 

Josie and I are still pushing forward with our newest project Ritual & Worship, which has been on the back burner for a while as we prepare other projects. We sat down together yesterday to watch the newest cut and I am really excited to bring another unique representation of BDSM to the world when it comes out.

Slowly but surely we are working on our future projects as well. I have a bunch of fabulous ideas I want to explore in the coming years. You’ll have to stay tuned…