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Annie Sprinkle
Acting
Biography
Annie Sprinkle, Ph.D., is a ground breaking feminist artist, long time filmmaker, and certified sexologist. From 1974 to 1996 Sprinkle worked on 100+ adult feature films. Sprinkle has appeared in dozens of documentaries and six B movies,before becoming an internationally renowned performance artist and an independent filmmaker. The connections she made along the way shaped her involvement in feminist politics, human rights, and freedom of expression; and she remains avidly committed to all of these ideals. Films Annie Sprinkle has directed/produced have shown in hundreds of film festivals around the world. Sluts & Goddesses (1990) broke new ground in feminist films. Sprinkle was a paid consultant for HBO’s The Deuce with Maggie Gyllenhaal. Annie Sprinkle’s 2027 film, Water Makes Us Wet, premiered at the prestigious German art festival, documenta 14 (where she also performed, lectured and had an exhibition), and then screened at NY’s MoMA. A few of her awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship for filmmaking, four San Francisco Arts Commission grants, the Kathy Acker Award for Achievement in the Avant Garde (2014), the Artist/Scholar/Activist Award from Performance Studies International at Stanford (2013) and Tom of Finland Lifetime Achievement Award (2020). Her archive is housed at Harvard. These days Annie Sprinkle is screening the third film in her queer environmental documentary film trilogy, Playing with Fire—An Ecosexual Emergancy. She’s also on an HBO special, Dear Ms.—A Revolution in Print. At 71 years old, Sprinkle is still active in filmmaking.
Filmography Movies
Acting
Annie
The world according to Annie Sprinkle, renowned porn star and performance artist.
Shadows in the City
Paul Mills is a miserable, lonely man leading a meaningless existence in a nameless city and has visions of the Spirit of Death waiting to collect him while having encounters with various people while seeking solace for his short life knowing it will end soon. Shadows in the City was the last major work of New York’s 1980s No Wave film scene. Shot over seven years in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens, painter-performer Ari Roussimoff’s only fiction feature captures the urban desolation of the city in the decade before gentrification.
Herstory of Porn: Reel to Real
Documentary film diary tracing Annie Sprinkle's and society’s 30 year evolution throughout the sexual revolution. Take a look at the history of porn via Annie's filmography.
The Real Linda Lovelace
Takes a look at the rise and fall of Linda Lovelace, the first major porn star.
Pandora's Mirror
While browsing, a small antique shop, a large mirror catches Pandora's attention, seemingly casting a spell of sensuality over her.
Expose Me, Lovely
Harry "Frosty" Knight, an New York City private eye who must find a missing young man -- heir to a fortune left by his father -- but soon finds himself framed for murder.
The Devil Inside Her
In 1826 New England, the two daughters of a repressed farmer (played by director Colt) secretly fawn over a blonde farmhand. The farmer finds out about the farmhand's relationship with the younger daughter and fires him, then punishes the younger daughter. Meanwhile the older daughter, secretly in love with the farmhand hopes to win him back by invoking the Devil with the help of a forest witch.
Unwilling Lovers
Timmy, a grown man, still lives as a child with his domineering mother in the backwoods. Traumatized by memories of his parents having sex, he begins to kill women so that he can play with their corpses.
Teenage Deviate
Annie moves in with cousin Audrey where she is raped by Audrey's boyfriend Hank and later accused of trying to steal Hank away.
Smut Without Smut: Satanic Horror Nite
Light your black candles and start the chant! Culled from 16mm prints found in Something Weird’s attic, SMUT WITHOUT SMUT: SATANIC HORROR NITE is an exclusive feature-length mixtape curated by the Lucifer-worshipping maniacs at the American Genre Film Archive (AGFA). Best viewed during the witching hour at a haunted drive-in, this mixtape features “Smut Without Smut” versions of six Satan-themed features, as well as trailers, commercials, and ephemera from the vaults. WATCH! Demon killers wearing makeup in the style of the band KISS! SEE! Sacrificial rites performed on kitchen tables! OBSERVE! Credits like “Co-starring Raquel Belch!” Dreamy, outrageous, and filled with naked people wearing velvet capes, SMUT WITHOUT SMUT: SATANIC HORROR NITE is a spicy treat for those souls who are brave enough to jump into the fire.
Production
Linda/Les and Annie
A fun, unique, sexy and informative video docudrama about Les Nichols, a trans man. It includes an intimate view of the night he and Annie Sprinkle tried out his new, surgically-constructed genitalia for the first time. His dual genitalia and all of their amazing functions are shown in detail. Revealing interviews, medical photographs, and Annie's heart-warming diary excerpts make this a chronicle of interest to film buffs, trans people, and those that love them. This seminal film from 1989 was the first of its kind.
Deep Inside Annie Sprinkle
Annie Sprinkle presents a personal account of her life, introducing vignettes showing off her sexual fantasies.
Deep Inside Annie Sprinkle
Annie Sprinkle presents a personal account of her life, introducing vignettes showing off her sexual fantasies.
Sensual Escape
Media superstar Gloria Leonard takes us on a touchingly funny walk through the minds of two people who have been dating and are about to take the leap into bed. After that, a young artist’s recurring erotic dream leads her to an encounter with a mysterious man who helps her discover her long hidden and explosive passion.
Rites of Passion
Veronica Vera takes us along with “Mr. Morality” as he goes to the TV studio to tape his weekly message. He instead finds himself traveling through his mind’s lustful secrets as revealed by sexy Nina Hartley. A timely and humorous piece. Meanwhile, Annie Sprinkle shares with us the autobiographical story of a woman whose search for fulfillment leads her through wild sexual adventures until she discovers ancient lovemaking secrets brought to her by a mysterious adonis-like “master.” An auto-biographical tongue-in-cheek journey, the story features Jeanna Fine as a jaded woman who finds fulfillment when hunky guru shows her the joys of Tantric sex.
Rites of Passion
Veronica Vera takes us along with “Mr. Morality” as he goes to the TV studio to tape his weekly message. He instead finds himself traveling through his mind’s lustful secrets as revealed by sexy Nina Hartley. A timely and humorous piece. Meanwhile, Annie Sprinkle shares with us the autobiographical story of a woman whose search for fulfillment leads her through wild sexual adventures until she discovers ancient lovemaking secrets brought to her by a mysterious adonis-like “master.” An auto-biographical tongue-in-cheek journey, the story features Jeanna Fine as a jaded woman who finds fulfillment when hunky guru shows her the joys of Tantric sex.
Rites of Passion
Veronica Vera takes us along with “Mr. Morality” as he goes to the TV studio to tape his weekly message. He instead finds himself traveling through his mind’s lustful secrets as revealed by sexy Nina Hartley. A timely and humorous piece. Meanwhile, Annie Sprinkle shares with us the autobiographical story of a woman whose search for fulfillment leads her through wild sexual adventures until she discovers ancient lovemaking secrets brought to her by a mysterious adonis-like “master.” An auto-biographical tongue-in-cheek journey, the story features Jeanna Fine as a jaded woman who finds fulfillment when hunky guru shows her the joys of Tantric sex.
Rites of Passion
Veronica Vera takes us along with “Mr. Morality” as he goes to the TV studio to tape his weekly message. He instead finds himself traveling through his mind’s lustful secrets as revealed by sexy Nina Hartley. A timely and humorous piece. Meanwhile, Annie Sprinkle shares with us the autobiographical story of a woman whose search for fulfillment leads her through wild sexual adventures until she discovers ancient lovemaking secrets brought to her by a mysterious adonis-like “master.” An auto-biographical tongue-in-cheek journey, the story features Jeanna Fine as a jaded woman who finds fulfillment when hunky guru shows her the joys of Tantric sex.
Sluts & Goddesses
A humorous, absurd, heartfelt and worshipful look at sex. Features many exotic ways to stimulate sexual and sensual pleasure, like flagellation with oak leaves, body contortions, tattooing, piercing, shaving and gender play.
Sluts & Goddesses
A humorous, absurd, heartfelt and worshipful look at sex. Features many exotic ways to stimulate sexual and sensual pleasure, like flagellation with oak leaves, body contortions, tattooing, piercing, shaving and gender play.
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