LSFF 2019: Drawn By Desire: Women's Animation on Sex

Sex is a ubiquitous subject in art, but often falls into tired tropes. Looking to the medium of short form animation, Nobody Ordered Wolves asks how we can create new ways of looking at sex in hopes of finding new ways of thinking about sex, beyond the coy and often pornographic.

 

Animation creates a unique safe space for women animators to visualise desire, reshape sexuality and say what is otherwise unsayable about bodies brought together, showing sex away from the male gaze. The films in this programme range from the nakedly educational, via the confessional, to the absurd and delightful. Standby for a seminar on the clitoris, that moment when a cartoon teddy realises 'I like girls’ and a pansexual plasticine softboi – in short, sex and all it can mean to us. 77 minutes.

 

Programme:

 

Renata Gąsiorowska, Pussy, 2016, 8 min

 

Eleanor Sikorski, Drawing My Orgasms 1, 2017, 2 min

 

Lori Malépart-Traversy, Le Clitoris, 2016, 3 min

 

Signe Baumane, Teat Beat of Sex 1, 2007, 3 min

 

Eleanor Sikorski, Drawing My Orgasms 2, 2017, 2 min

 

Naomi Uman, Removed, 1999, 7 min

 

Anna Ginsburg, Private Parts, 2015, 4 min

 

Jeanette Bonds, Trusts & Estates, 2013, 5 min

 

Eleanor Sikorski, Drawing My Orgasms 3, 2017, 2 min

 

Kristen Lepore, Hi Stranger, 2016, 3 min

 

Sawako Kabuki, Master Blaster, 2015, 4 min

 

Signe Baumane, Teat Beat of Sex 2, 2007, 3 min

 

Diane Obomsawin, I Like Girls, 2016, 8 min

 

Veronica L. Montaño/Manuela Leuenberger/Lukas Suter, Ivan's Need, 2015, 6 min

 

Kitty Faingold, Body World, 2017, 7 min

 

Marta Pajek, Impossible Figures, 2018, 10 min