| NEWS and UPDATES... |
281110 My film DOMINANS is reviewed in the new edition of "Cashiers du Cinemart"
140910 Nominated as the year's best TV-editor for FORBRYDELSEN (now being remade in the US as THE KILLING) - see picture ...
Updated CV (editing the feature film BORA BORA), links to distributors of my films, etc.
271209 An English translation of one of my texts on SM is now on-line: Freefall
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010508 Deeply worrying censorship news from the UK:
When does kinky porn become illegal?
See more on the Backlash homepage ... |
070308 Yesterday Sexual Political Forum (with me as a main force) launched a website which brings statements from Danish sex workers. www.sexarbejde.dk.
Today, the French pro-sex feministist porn star Ovidie comes to Copenhagen, and I have set up a press meeting with her ... |
021007 I heartily recommend a handsome erotic art book, now available as free PDF download, "Vanilla Sex" fromhttp://www.michaelrosen.com
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| 011007 There are many updates in Danish ... sexual politics, interviews, etc. |
011007 I've made a short film of Fakir Musafar's "Spirit+Flesh"-Performance in London this May. A short version is available on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15r36xZ2ceQ |
050507 On May 18-27 Fakir Musafar and his wife Cleo Dubois visitis London, and participates in a series of Spirit+Flesh events. See more on www.fakirtour.com and Torture Gardens homepage.
I'm looking so much forward to meeting these dear friends of mine again, and participate in the magic. |
| 021206 The new issue of Tidens Kvinder includes my essay on ALSANA, cyberfeminist on-line sex model ... |
| 021206 Another new book, STORBYENS STAMMER, includes an interview with me on on sex magic, fetish and spirituality. See the cover HERE ... |
| 251106 A new Danish anthology book, "Sex on the Edge" has just been published - including an essay on fetish and sexual subculture by me, "Double Life". See more (in Danish) HERE |
| 141006 I have opened a new website for the family - www.steenogsabina.dk - which contains photos of the family, Freya the ferret and travelling ... HERE |
| 190906 Updated resumé, editing a new video installation and a thriller series for Danish TV ... HERE |
| 140906 My life has changed ... see www.steenogsabina.dk ... |
| 260806 The website for Excess Club has opened - an exclusive and modern BDSM club in Copenhagen ... |
| 080806 Back from a fantastic vacation in Thailand. Se the pictures HERE ... |
| 030706 For those of us interested in genderbending, drag and the politcs of sex identity - there's the Queer-festival in Copenhagen this week - see more HERE ... |
| 190606 I have edited a music video for Danish neo-ethnic rock band Outlandish. It is as yet unpublished, but can be seen seen HERE |
| 180606 I have again been very active in the sexual political debate in Denmark, correcting myths and manipulation about porn and sex work. Can be seen HERE (Danish only) ... |
| 170506 Film clips from The Art Core Trilogy are now available from this website on the updated film pages... HERE |
| 170506 My resumé has been updated with details of my writings and interviews... HERE |
170206 My favourite horror director, italian Dario Argento (Deep Red, Suspiria, Opera) is back in style - and with a new style. The new "Masters of Horror" series have given Argento the perfect source matter: "Jenifer" first came to light as a horror comic book, by Bruce Jones and artist Bernie Wrightson, in "Creepy" #63 from 1974 - se original details HERE.
I love this 55-minute splatter film, for its gruesome romance, black humour and dream-like pornografic horror. Hard Core! Ever since I saw it last night, the film has been moving about in the back in my mind, in my stomach, and other horribly interesting places. When an artwork does that - then you know it's art! So the DVD comes heartily recommended - the Danish edition can be found HERE ...
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090206 To stop the escalating international conflict, I can fully endorse the signature drive being sent round in Denmark right now - also in english at: www.forsoningnu.dk/underskrift/
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| 260106 Me So Happy! Danish television station DR has bought the new series of my favourite TV show, "Doctor Who" ... |
| 260106 I am a member of this year's jury at the film festival "Cosmic Zoom" - se mere HER ..... |
| 040106 There are many recent updates to this site, which do not figure here in the English version - as those texts are in Danish only. Sorry - I miss the hours in the day to try and translate my writings. New essay on the symbolism af horror films ... dialogues with Danish politicians and journalists about their sex-negative statements on prostitution ... an erotic essay on the connection between magical rituals and BDSM, and more ... |
| 041005 In the current issue of the Danish erotic magazine for women, Tidens Kvinder, I portray two SM/fetish photographers; Danish Sebastian Solo and New Yorker Barbara Nitke ... |
261005
Both the English and American governements are currently working to make S&M texts and imagery on the internet illegal. This could strik everything from art photography to consensual BDSM clubs to ProDoms ...the world is getting smaller, and is on a very scary path!
Sexual fantasies and desires are to be outlawed, individual rights are to be diminished, in a neo-puritan wave slowly encompassing more and more forms of alternative sexuality.
In England, the government is working to ban S&M images:
The British Government, according to BBC reports and the Home Office, announced on August 30, 2005 a plan to introduce a consultative process with a view to banning the downloading of images from web sites -- here and overseas which include images of sexual violence regardless of whether it is consensual.
Read more here:
http://www.unfettered.co.uk/articles/a17.html
http://www.unfettered.co.uk/
In America, S&M should be removed from the internet, according to the Attorney General:
October 20, 2005 - Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has announced that his office will specifically target "bestiality, urination, defecation, as well as sadistic and masochistic behavior" in pursuing new obscenity prosecutions. The Department of Justice began recruiting in late July for a new anti-obscenity squad to pursue obscenity prosecutions, and the FBI announced in September that it was forming an anti-obscenity task force to crack down on pornography.
Any website that has content containing "bestiality, urination, defecation, as well as sadistic and masochistic behavior" should be forewarned that prosecution is possible. Additionally, Federal sentencing guidelines state that any obscenity- related punishment should be "enhanced for sadomasochistic material."
The Department of Justice is clearly hoping that websites will self-censor or remove their content entirely. Midori, a fetish model and SM educator who teaches classes on bondage, has removed her website, BeautyBound.com, citing fear of obscenity prosecution.
Read more here:
http://www.ncsfreedom.org/news/2005/102005ObscenityWave.htm
www.ncsfreedom.org
www.barbaranitke.com |
| 041005 In the current issue of the sex-positive Danish magazine Tidens Kvinder, I interview the legendary post-porn-modernist Annie Sprinkle ...... |
| 100905 In 2004, I edited the film about the making of the impressive puppet feature "Strings" ... |
| 060805 New portrait photos of me, by Rune Backs. See the images HERE ... |
| 200705 New page about my favourite TV-series, Doctor Who! Images and text (Danish only), HERE ... |
| 200705 Freyas puppies are now heading for new homes ... but the cute pictures and films stay on-line, HERE ... |
| 150505 Freya the ferret just gave birth to 12 ferret puppies ... pictures and info in Danish HERE .. |
| 030505 Added new gallery of San Francisco and Folsom Street Fair 2004 ... HERE ... |
| 020505 My excentric pet Freya the ferret is highly pregnant ... pictures and info in danish HERE ... |
| 100405 Malmø Art Museum is showing "Costume Party"; a three-screen video installation which I have edited for director Maryam Jafri ... HERE ... |
| 050405 It's been a pleasure to write about "Good Vibrations" and interview Carol Queen - now published in the sex-positive danish magazine Tidens Kvinder ... |
| 120205 New startpage, supplemented by general website updates; new links, Freya pictures, etc ... |
| 120205 Recent news has mostly been about danish activities ... lectures on sexual subcultures ... danish film editing ... and article-writing on "Sex and Shamanism", "The Lusty Lady" and and "Good Vibrations", HERE ... |
| 251004 I'm co-presenting Kinky Café on saturday november 13th 2004. A decadent afternoon of sexual culture. See more info HERE ... |
| 020804 Reviews of my Art Core DVD is now on-line ... HERE ... |
| 020404 Latest updates has mostly been about danish culture... I picked up an award as film editor of the danish feature film "Gemini/Tvilling", see picture HERE ... there's an interview with me in a womens erotic magazine, HERE ... another interview in a danish film magazine, HERE ... and I lecture about Eroticism in Film in july, HERE |
| 201103 This website has now changed its URL to: www.steenschapiro.dk |
| 201103 THE ART CORE TRILOGY is now out on DVD with english subtitles, commentary tracks, gallery and more... See info HERE... |
| 300703 I'm co-arranging "Kinky Copenhagen", an erotic festival, 31/10-2/11... clubs, performances, art shows, debate... it will be great! |
| 080503 Writing and planning different projects... but Danish cultural politics has taken a conservative turn... |
| 130802 Back after yet another wonder-filled journey to San Francisco... the place in the present world, that offers the freest and deepest gender exploration... |
| 011201 Working with South African director Francois Verster on two political documentaries... |
| 250701 Organizing the "Psychosexual Lab." performance for our august BTA fetish party... |
| 010601 Visiting a shamanistic SM tribe in California... |
| 210301 Editing work on "Distractions" for Kassandra Wellendorf... |
| 251200 Teaching, editing and surviving patriarchial christmas... |
| 261000 Wienna did not exlode at all; I'm told it flopped and that international guest artists did not get paid... |
| 300900 I'm so happy that Denmark once again managed to just say no to the bueraucratic express train monster that is the European Union. Hopefully it'll slow down and install some ethics and maybe even a constitution... |
| 280700 Wienna will explode in October.. |
| 12/7/00 This website is being developed... |
