The Key to Dreams
A performer-director dives into the dreamy but daunting world of queer erotic cinema.
Content: nudity and sexuality
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Gerard X ReyesDirectorECSTATIC UNITY (2022), SOLO (2023), Hunting Daze (2024)
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Poppy SanchezDirectorTease Cake (2018), Sex Sirens (2019), ECSTATIC UNITY (2022)
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Gerard X ReyesWriter
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Pina BrutalWriterThe Secret Love Life of the Urban Leopard, Hungarian Tango
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Gerard X ReyesProducerECSTATIC UNITY
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Gerard X ReyesKey CastECSTATIC UNITY
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Bishop BlackKey CastThe Visitor, Captain Faggotron Saves The Universe, It Is Not The Pornographer That Is Perverse, At Night All The Cats Are Black, XConfessions
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Jasko FideKey CastSancta, XConfessions, Never My Love
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Project Type:Experimental, Short, Other
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Genres:LGBTQ, Erotic
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Runtime:6 minutes 46 seconds
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Completion Date:December 15, 2023
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Production Budget:7,000 USD
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Country of Origin:Canada
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Country of Filming:Germany
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Language:English
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Shooting Format:Digital
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Aspect Ratio:16:9
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Film Color:Color
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First-time Filmmaker:No
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Student Project:No
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Oslo Fusion Film FestivalOslo
Norway
September 28, 2024
World premiere
Official Selection
GERARD X REYES is a choreographer, dancer, filmmaker, certified Sexological Bodyworker, intimacy coordinator and pioneer of the Montreal Kiki Ballroom scene. They have lived and worked in Montreal, Toronto, New York, Los Angeles and Berlin. As a multidisciplinary artist they are interested in creating intimate, sensual and immersive works for the stage (The Principle of Pleasure, Public/Private Parts ou L'Origine du monde), for cinema (ECSTATIC UNITY, The Key to Dreams) and for aural delight (a podcast series titled Public/Private Parts). In addition, they recently choreographed and coached actors in two Canadian feature films (SOLO "Best Canadian Feature Film award" at TIFF; Hunting Daze).
www.gerardxreyes.com
gerardxreyes@gmail.com
POPPY SANCHEZ is a filmmaker originally from Amsterdam based in Berlin. She has been directing and producing erotic themed films since 2014. Her films portray intimate moments where you can lose yourself to a dreamy cinematic desire. For Poppy sex plays a significant role in the eyes of the mind, illustrating that imagination can become the biggest turn on. Poppy seems to effortlessly intertwine humour alongside sensuality in her films, because how dull would sex be without some playfulness?
The sensual body can be a resource for cultivating deeper embodiment, pleasure, and connection with ourselves and others. However we live in a society that shames sexuality and fails to teach us how to honour and celebrate our bodies.
The Key to Dreams is part a series of works under the umbrella "Public/Private Parts" – directed by multidisciplinary artist and bodyworker Gerard X Reyes in collaboration with sex workers, somatic sex educators and artists in Berlin. Through various mediums (films, live performance, video installation, documentary interviews, a podcast) the collaborators give a much-needed update to the image of contemporary sex work and art by sharing their enlightening perspectives on moral censorship, intimate practices, pleasure, trauma, healing and much more.
The Key to Dreams marks Reyes’ debut as an erotic film director.