Our Holiday In Prague.

Josie and I continue our new tradition!

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.

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Feeling posh, having two toilets in our hotel room.
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Decadent treats.
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Complimentary Wine for Two!
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24 hour gym but no takers!

 

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On top of the Astronomical Clock Tower.
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View from the top of the Astronomical Clock Tower.
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Incredible decor! Kutná Hora Bone Church.
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Please don’t forget me Josie! Kutná Hora Bone Church.
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Old Jewish Cemetery.
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Contemplating, in a beer spa!
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Cheers, beer spa-ing!
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Selfie before ‘Salome’, at Prague State Opera.
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Selfie before ‘Salome’ at Prague State Opera!

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‘The Kissing Whip’ and ‘Rituals And Worship’ Our Second & Third Film Shoots In Berlin.

That’s it for Josie and me!

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.

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Permission 4 Pleasure hits the Berlin Porn Film Festival – Reviews and Recap

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 – Gustavo Vinagre 

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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.

Schnick – Schnack Schnuck –  MAIKE BROCHHAUS and SÖREN DISORDER

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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!

 

The Papillion –  Julie Simone

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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.

 

House Boy – Pandora Blake

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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.

 

Custom Queer ComandosJacqueline Mary

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Has one amazing squirty cum shot all over a pastel pink guitar! Do you need another reason to watch a film?

 

The MaskMinus is Valido

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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!

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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.

 

— Josie and Mog

‘BREATHTAKING’ Our first film shoot in Berlin.

It’s a wrap! Our first shoot in Berlin is done!

‘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!

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