Dirty Diaries

Dirty Diaries is a 2009 collection of thirteen short films of feminist pornography made by Swedish activists and artists and produced by Mia Engberg. The individual films are highly diverse in content, although many of them feature humour and different forms of queer sex. The creative decisions were based on a manifesto with the aim to create pornography that is noncommercial and follows feminist ideals.

The idea for creating Dirty Diaries emerged after Engberg and some of her friends made Come Together for the Stockholm International Film Festival. It was a short film where all the participants filmed themselves with mobile phone cameras while masturbating. Come Together received a large amount of negative commentary, primarily from men, who complained about the actorphotographers being unattractive. To Engberg, this was proof that pornographic films demanded that their female participants should be seen as pleasing to their primarily male audience. Engberg had previously made another feminist pornographic short called Selma and Sofie, which enjoyed some success. This and Engbergs record of other successful cultural ventures motivated the Swedish Film Institute to supply an initial 350,000Swedish kronor, later supplemented with an additional 150,000.To hell with the sick beauty ideals Deep selfhatred keeps a lot of womens energy and creativity sapped. The energy that could be focused into exploring our own sexuality and power is being drained off into diets and cosmetics. Dont let the commercial powers control your needs and desires. ........

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