Austin does keep it weird. If you're around one of my favorite cities in the U.S. this weekend, it might be interesting to check out a touring movie festival. It's always good to line up a hump or two when in Austin, but this time, this HUMP! will be a little different.
“If you hate porn, you might want to give Hump a chance.” Did somebody say porn? Hilarious and pleasure-probing, a long-running festival will reveal itself to Austin on Saturday, going way beyond your typical run-of-the-mill weekend event.
Dan Savage, the author, journalist, gay rights activist, and internationally popular sex columnist behind Savage Love, is bringing his Hump Film Festival to Austin during its national tour. Initially created and curated by Savage in Seattle 12 years ago, Hump is an amateur pornography festival that explores human sexuality through five-minute films.
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“You’re going to watch porn that takes you outside of your comfort zone,” says Savage. “[During] the first five or six films, people are just knocked back in their seats because you’ve got straight people watching hard-core gay porn, you’ve got gay guys watching cunnilingus, you’ve got vanilla people watching really hard-core kinky porn, you have cisgendered people watching trans porn.
“… And about a third of the way through Hump,” he continues, “everyone is laughing, cheering, clapping, and nobody is being thrown back in their seat any more.”
With great success in the Pacific Northwest, the 2015 national Hump Film Festival has brought together the best films from the past seven years of the fest’s production for an evening full of kinks and giggles.
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“Hump’s mission is to be entertaining, to be a fun night in a movie theater. It’s not a graduate seminar in some dour liberal arts college trying to edify and educate people about human sexuality,” says Savage. “It’s a really good time that does a little education around the edges.”
Besides, everybody needs a little Hump in their lives.
Hump Film Festival will take place in Austin at The Scoot Inn on Saturday, September 26. There will be two separate screenings at 8:30 and 10:45 pm. Tickets are $15 to $20. – austin.culturemap.com
For more about the festival and pie fetishes, check out the rest of Molly McManus's story at austin.culturemap.com.
As mentioned, the festival originated in Seattle, but was in Philadelphia in February of this year. Baltimore, Minneapolis, Pittsburg, and Denver are next. For dates and more info, go to HUMP!'s ticket page here.
Are you ready to watch porn in a theater with 100's of others?