Six new erotic stories based on crowdsourced sexual confessions and fantasies come to life with these XConfessions short movies. Included: ASMR; Like a Butterfly; Hirsute; Sleeping Beauty; Carpe Diem; Elemental.

In the future where men have died out and their semen is the latest commodity. It’s a teasing role-reversal in which rough sex, facials and swallowing, traditionally viewed as objectifying women, instead turn men into little more than fantasy fodder and cum dispensers for a privileged princess.

The imprint of the past is made present by the return of three migrants to a community in the upper Mixteca region of Oaxaca, where the three stories intersect.

Inspired by the sexploitation films of Russ Meyers and Michelangelo Antonioni’s Blow Up (1966), HardWerk’s latest gang bang is a slow burning subversion of cinematic tropes that finds the carnal in the camp and the sumptuous in the sleaze. For her first ever gang bang and first facial on film, lead performer Maria Riot and the filmmakers reimagined the figure of the bossy (and generally male) photographer with a much-needed shift on the gender axis, so allowing Maria to take the lead in quite literally staging her own fantasy.

The classical gang bang reimagined in an ‘auto-erotic’ celebration.

Chapter III of HardWerk’s Triptychon series delivers on the numbers in lead performer Sulema Vasquez’s first ever gang bang: three cocks slowly roused to rapt attention during a tender bondage session; a screen split into one, two and three perspectives, infinite nuances, a singular desire; and one rigger and several lengths of rope to bind it all together. But – as this format proves once more, this time in its most languid and meditative installment yet – a gang bang is not math but alchemy. Where attention should be divided, pleasure is instead multiplied, where the pace slows down, intensity – intent itself – is heightened, and where twists of knots should restrict and restrain, each whisper of rope over skin speaks of something liberated, something sensual and something sacred.

Somewhere between a hallowed altarpiece and the orgiastic frenzy of The Garden of Earthly Delights, the first film of HardWerk’s ‘Triptychon’ series pays homage to the classical triptych format with an entirely new perspective on the gang bang. With the screen split into three parts, allowing multiple perspectives in time as well as space, a new type of sensual storytelling is born with no detail missed and no moment overlooked. And the right ‘composition’ was as essential to the energy of the film as it was to the aesthetic. For the filmmakers, finding the right constellation in the cast with the right organic energy ultimately made for a film – and first gang bang for lead actress Luna Silver – that was ‘intimate and filled with laughter and joyful, playful energy’. In the tangles of limbs, the eruptions of giggles and gasps, and the clever juxtapositions of context and chronology, ‘Triptychon’ turns a four-way fantasy into a single work of erotic art.

Short film by Paulita Pappel & Rod Wyler

Desire Will Set You Free is a feature film that explores life in contemporary Berlin with an often critical and sometimes humorous eye. Based on a true story, the plot follows the relationship of an American writer of Israeli/Palestinian descent and a Russian aspiring artist working as a hustler, offering access to the city's vibrant queer and underground scenes while examining the differences between expatriate and refugee life. Our characters travel through Berlin's layered history and unique subcultural landscape; on their adventures they discover influences and remnants of the Weimar Republic, WWII, the Bowie years, and punk.

In Ger(wo)many, when an army of radical females is preparing for a final revolution and a utopian world without men, a young male soldier arrives seeking refuge at the convent.