Portfolio categories: <span>Lectures & Education</span>

Sasha Shanti – Body suspension artist

Sasha Shanti is a Berlin based artist who has been working with body suspensions since 2010. Sasha will do a hook suspension performance and shares some knowledge regarding hook suspension rituals. There is a possibility for festival guests to have private suspensions from Sasha during the weekend.

Sasha is the inventor of #freefall suspension (jumps with hooks) and is a 2 times World Record holder (200m freefall with hooks in 2020 and 400m freefall with hooks 2022). Check “still falling for you” -movie

Welcome to be a part of our crazy bunch Sasha!

Mippi Vuorikoski: The Psychology of BDSM

In this lecture, Mippi explores the healing and empowering aspects of sexual play and sessions, focusing on the mind and connection.

Mippi is known as a relationship and sexual therapist, educator, and speaker, as well as one of the prominent faces in Finland’s psychedelic therapy research field.

In her therapy practice, Mippi works extensively with themes of mental health, trauma, and relationships. Her clientele ranges from vanilla individuals to hardcore kinksters and from monogamous couples to those in long-term polyamorous relationships.

My Element Water – Documentary

A documentary about a swimmer seeking challenges in her comfort element

The 25-year-old Madame A was a former long distance competive swimmer. Connected with water since she can remember, she now seeks to find her boundaries in the nurture of something so familiar. As breathing was the first thing she was taught to learn, she now meets for a challenge where it‘s being taken away. Her experience is reflected in an additional interview. A low-budget short film produced in Stuttgart, Germany. (Trigger warning: sensory deprivation, hypoventilation and waterborading)

Swen Brandy is a 47-year-old photographer and amateur film maker from Germany. In his playshootings, he combines BDSM scenarios with photography, often resulting in personal challenges and intense experiences for the models. In 2020, he began creating short films and clips in addition to his photography work. Aside from his shootings, he works as a graphic designer and passes on his knowledge on body and mind work as a kink educator.

Film Festivals 2021-2024

Award Winner

• Fetish Film Festival – London, GB – 2022
• Bizarrya Short Film Festival – Porto, Portugal – 2022
• Hallucinea Film Festival – Paris, France – 2021

Selected

• Selected BDSM Film Festival – Barcelona (Esp) – 2024
• Selected Fetish Film Festival – London, GB – 2023
• Selected Glitch Festival – St. Gallen (Switzerland) – 2023
• Selected Porn Film Festival Warsaw (Poland) – 2023
• Selected EXCÉNTRICO Film Festival Santiago (Chile) – 2023
• Selected Seattle SECS Film Festival (USA) – 2022
• Selected Berlin PornFilmFestival (GER) – 2022
• Selected San Francisco PornFilmFestival (USA) – 2022
• Selected UNCENSORED – London Festival (GB) – 2022
• Selected Porn Film Festival Brussels (Belgium) – 2022
• Selected Porny Art Film Festival in Zürich (Switzerland) – 2022
• Selected Porn Art Film Festival in Bolognia (Italy) – 2021
• Selected Hacker Film Festival in Rome (Italy) – 2021