30 May

20:30

Filmhuis Cavia

Van Hallstraat 52-1, Amsterdam

A monthly sex-positive screening recalling films from Porn Film Festival Amsterdam, exploring themes of phantom love, desire, and intimacy through a series of short films.

Kissable Screens: Phantom Love

Kissable Screens, a monthly sex positive screening of Cavia, will recall films that were presented at Porn Film Festival Amsterdam 2026.

It is a favourable moment to gain a new perspective on Pornography which can be artistic, political, moving, thought-provoking and a catalyst for self-discovery.

Can you desire someone who is not there? Ghosts of the past, people we never met in person, someone who only lives in our memories, frozen in time. Separated from us by oceans, borders, death, break-ups and other foul plot twists of life. How to love them in the face of their silence? Are we still allowed to imagine them naked, continue the conversation, look through the traces they left behind? A smell on our skin, scribbles in the sidelines of a book, a song, a hair, a voice note. Phantom loves we still feel near in their absence.

Untie - Oat Montien

2023 | USA / Thailand | 5 min.
Shot on Super8 camera in Death Valley, this film documents the grieving ritual of Oat Montien as The Gay Asian Cowboy. He reimagines shibari (asian rope bondage) in a Western cowboy aesthetic as tribute to his late father.

Lost Belongings - Jaewon Kim

2025 | South Korea | 10 min.
This film draws the experiences of gay men who have experienced chemsex by focusing on the objects left behind or used by members of the group.

Les fantômes du hard - Lazare Lazarus

2025 | France | 28 min.
The film is made from the archives of the Mineshaft founder, preserved at Mémoire des Sexualités, a queer archive center based in Marseille.