Water Makes Us Wet: An Ecosexual Adventure
Annie Sprinkle und Beth Stephens
This film will also be available online on our VoD platform from March 29 to April 10, 2022. Please note: This film will only be available in Germany.
Artists Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens set out on a road trip through California in their E.A.R.T.H. Lab mobile unit with dog Butch. In their performative exploration, they look at the sexuality of water. With great curiosity and humour, they meet and interview numerous accomplices, including performance artists, biologists, water treatment plant workers and other scientists.
Their method is eco-sexuality: they shift the metaphor ofMother Earth to Earth as a lover, offering a healing strategy to those who strive to find an equitable coexistence in a more-than-human sense. They look for reciprocal and empathetic relationships between humanity and the environment, but they also present hard facts about the exploitation of water, and allow Mother Earth herself to comment off-screen on their film. Wherever needed, they perform inspiring healing rituals with fellow campaigners. In the mix are activist-performative, delightfully shrill and sexy elements, presented by Annie and Beth in positive Golden State style. Even when a traumatic event brings their journey to an abrupt end, their belief in the power of water, life, sex and love remains unbroken.
Annie Sprinkle und Beth Stephens
Annie Sprinkle ist Performancekünstlerin, Pornodarstellerin, Autorin und Sexualtherapeutin und prägte das Post-Porn-Genre u. a. mit ihren Filmen The Sluts & Goddesses Video Workshop (1990) und Linda/Les & Annie – The First Female to Male Trans Love Story (1989). Beth Stephens ist interdisziplinäre Künstlerin und Professorin am Art Department an der University of California in Santa Cruz und leitet das E.A.R.T.H. Lab SF.
Annie Sprinkle und Beth Stephens sind seit 2002 life partners und gründeten zusammen 2008 die Ecosex-Bewegung. Sie sind Autorinnen des Ecosex Manifesto und Produzentinnen der preisgekrönten Filme Goodbye Gauley Mountain: An Ecosexual Love Story und Water Makes Us Wet: An Ecosexual Adventure, der seine Premiere auf der documenta 14 in Kassel feierte.
Filme von Annie Sprinkle und Beth Stephens
Water Makes Us Wet: An Ecosexual Adventure 2019 | Goodbye Gauley Mountain: An Ecosexual Love Story 2014
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Guggenheim Fellowship 2021
Eureka Fellowship 2019
Kathy Acker Excellence in Avant-Garde Award 2019
Sheffield International Documentary Festival, nominiert für: Sheffield Green Award (Goodbye Gauley Mountain: An Ecosexual Love Story), sowie den Performance Studies International Artist/Activist/Scholar Award und den Tom of Finland Lifetime Achievement Award
