Erika Lust
| Erika Lust | |
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| File:Erika lust.jpg | |
| Born | Erika Hallqvist 1977 (age 46–47) Stockholm, Sweden |
| Education | BA in Political Sciences, Lund University, 1999[1] |
| Occupation | Writer, director, producer |
| Years active | 2004–present |
Erika Lust is a Swedish feminist porn director, screenwriter and producer. Alongside others such as Petra Joy and Anna Span, Lust has been instrumental in promoting the aims of the feminist pornography movement.[2] She has written several books. She lives and works in Barcelona.
Her film Cabaret Desire won her the Feminist Porn Award for Movie of the Year in 2012. It also won the Cinekink Audience Choice Award for Best Narrative Feature. The first two compilations of her XConfessions series have won her the Feminist Porn Awards for Hottest Straight Vignette in 2014 and 2015 respectively.
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Background
Lust was born Erika Hallqvist in Stockholm, Sweden, in 1977.[3] She harboured a passion for film and theatre.[4]
She went to Lund University, where she studied Political Sciences. While there, she came across Linda Williams' 1989 book Hard Core: Power, Pleasure, and the "Frenzy of the Visible", which later came to strongly influence her filmmaking. She also cites Jean Jacques Annaud's The Lover as a source of inspiration.[5] She graduated with a BA in 1999, with a specialization in human rights and feminism.[6] She moved to Barcelona in 2000, where she worked in production houses and took night courses in filmmaking.[5]
Career
Lust shot her first film, the explicit short The Good Girl, in 2004. It was released for free on the internet and downloaded over 2 million times in the first month.[7] The film was shown at the Barcelona International Erotic Film Festival the next year and won her a Ninfa Award.
In 2005, after this initial success, she founded her video production company Lust Films.[5] It has produced pornographic shorts and compilations steadily from then on. Five Hot Stories For Her, an anthology of five vignettes including The Good Girl, won several international awards in 2007. Since then she has been a regular on the pornographic film festival circuit.
Erika Lust's films are characterized by carefully cast actors and high standards of production in adult film. Erika Lust believes pornographic film can be an educational tool besides being pleasurable and can help us better understand our sexuality, to live more freely and naturally. She hopes to influence viewers' conceptions of gender roles in sexuality.[8] She considers pornography to be the "most important discourse on gender and sexuality".[5]
In 2010, Lust opened an online erotic cinema called Lust Cinema, exhibiting her own films and those of other authors of the new wave of explicit films.[5]
Erika Lust started the first crowdsourced project in the history of adult cinema in 2013, calling it XConfessions.[5] It has become her main source of work in recent years.
She runs an online store offering her books and films, as well as sex toys and other erotic wares. Her company Lust Productions now has 12 employees. She also maintains a blog. She has written several books on sex and porn. Her book Good Porn was published in 2009 by Seal Press.[9]
XConfessions
Lust is currently producing short adult films based on crowd-sourced stories.[10] Viewers can leave anonymous confessions on the project's website. Each month, Lust handpicks two stories and turn them into cinematic short films. She has already published five volumes of XConfessions shorts. XConfessions has been presented at the Berlin Porn Festival 2014.[11][12] In 2015, a theatrical cut of XConfessions was screened along with a talk by Lust at the Raindance Film Festival in London and at the Chicago International Film Festival.[13][14]
Selected Filmography
Feature films
- 2008: Barcelona Sex Project
- 2010: Life Love Lust
- 2011: Cabaret Desire
Compilations of Shorts
- 2007: Five Hot Stories For Her incl. Something about Nadia
- 2013: XConfessions vol. 1
- 2014: XConfessions vol. 2 incl. The Art of Spanking
- 2014: XConfessions vol. 3
- 2015: XConfessions vol. 4
- 2015: XConfessions vol. 5
Short films
- 2004: The Good Girl
- 2009: Handcuffs
- 2010: Love Me Like You Hate Me made with Venus O'Hara
- 2011: Room 33 sequel to Handcuffs
Books
- 2009: X: a Woman's Guide to Good Porn
- 2010: Erotic Bible to Europe
- 2010: Love Me Like You Hate Me with Venus O'Hara
- 2011: Shooting Sex: How to Make an Outstanding Sex Movie with Your Partner (ebook also available in polish) [15]
- 2011: Six Female Voices with Antia Pagant
- 2013: La Canción de Nora (Nora's Song)
Honours and Awards
| Year | Sponsoring Organisation | Award | Category | Entry | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | Barcelona Intl Erotic Film Festival | Ninfa Award | First Prize for Short X-Films | The Good Girl | Won[16] |
| 2007 | Barcelona Intl Erotic Film Festival | Ninfa Award | Best Screenplay | Five Hot Stories for Her | Won[17] |
| Venus Fair Berlin | Eroticline Award | Best Adult Film for Women | Won[18] | ||
| 2008 | Good for Her Toronto | Feminist Porn Award | Movie of the Year | Won[19] | |
| Cinekink New York | Cinekink Award | Best Short | Something about Nadia | Honorable Mention | |
| Venus Fair Berlin | Eroticline Award | Best Erotic Documentary | Barcelona Sex Project | Won[20] | |
| 2009 | Good for Her Toronto | Feminist Porn Award | Movie of the Year | Honorable Mention | |
| 2010 | Cinekink New York | Cinekink Award | Best Experimental Short Film | Handcuffs | Won[21] |
| Good for Her Toronto | Feminist Porn Award | Sexiest Short Film | Won[22] | ||
| 2011 | Good for Her Toronto | Feminist Porn Award | Movie of the Year | Life Love Lust | Won[23] |
| Cinekink New York | Cinekink Award | Best Short | Room 33 | Honorable Mention | |
| Orgazmik Zürich | Orgazmik Award | Best Film (Couples) | Cabaret Desire | Won[24] | |
| 2012 | Good for Her Toronto | Feminist Porn Award | Movie of the Year | Won[25] | |
| Cinekink New York | Cinekink Audience Choice Award | Best Narrative Feature | Won[21] | ||
| Cupido Norway | Cupido Filmpris | Handcuffs | Won[26] | ||
| 2014 | Good for Her Toronto | Feminist Porn Award | Hottest Straight Vignette Series | XConfessions vol. 1 | Won[27] |
| Fetisch Film Festival Germany | Fetisch Award | Best Feature-Length | Won[28] | ||
| 2015 | Good for Her Toronto | Feminist Porn Award | The Art of Spanking | Nominated[29] | |
| Hottest Straight Vignette | XConfessions vol. 2 | Won[30] | |||
| Website | xconfessions.com | Honorable Mention[31] |
Notable Screenings
| Year | Festival | Submission |
|---|---|---|
| 2009 | Rated X Amsterdam | Barcelona Sex Project |
| Circuito Off Film Festival Venice | Handcuffs | |
| 2012 | Erotikos Film Festival Jamaica | Cabaret Desire |
| 2014 | Berlin Porn Film Festival | XConfessions vol. 1 |
| Self Serve's Pornotopia Festival New Mexico[32] | ||
| Film Festival of Gender Mexico | XConfessions vol. 2 | |
| Only Porn Lyon | XConfessions | |
| 2015 | La fête du slip Switzerland | |
| Cinekink New York | The Art of Spanking | |
| Raindance Film Festival London | XConfessions | |
| Chicago International Film Festival | XConfessions |
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