After migrating to Germany in the 1970s, Şevket Şahin founded the porn production company TRIMAX in Hessen, Germany in 1998. He directed and produced his films in Turkey and Germany for his own company. TRIMAX grew and was one of the forces behind the ethnic pornography trend in German mainstream porn and in Europe.
Noticing the attention TRIMAX was getting, the Hamburg-based porn production company Zip Production joined the race. Zip produced around fifteen gay porn movies in almost ten cities within six years after beginning to shoot in Turkey in 2000. They worked with amateur porn actors to create an urban-based poetic narrative in various cities such as ‘Men of Adana’, ‘Men of İstanbul’, ‘Men of Antalya’, ‘Men of İzmir’, ‘Men of Ankara’, ‘Men of Bursa’ and ‘Men of Edirne’ to complete the ‘Ahmed’s Fuck Tour’ series.
During this time TRIMAX also began shooting the gay porn series ‘Istanbul Boys’ in Turkey alongside their other words. The movies in the series have titles such as ‘Burning Asses’, ‘Let’s Enjoy It From the Butt’, ‘Horny Youngsters’, ‘Every Night From the Ass’, ‘C’mon and Drive Me’, ‘My Jealous Guy’, ‘Hungry For Ass’ and ‘Fuck Me Ali’.
One of the two curators of the exhibition ‘ğ – queer forms migrate’, Emre Busse works on pornography and representations of the body. Busse will give a presentation on ethnic-poetic pornography and the mainstream homo-orientalist, sex-positive body representation in the Middle East based on the movies produced by TRIMAX and Zip Productions during the 2000s.
This event is not suitable for audiences under 18 years of age.
This presentation is part of the side event program of “ğ- soft g – queer forms migrate”
*This side event will be in English
“ğ – the soft g” is supported by the Governing Mayor of Berlin – Senatskanzlei – Kulturelle Angelegenheiten.
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Admission:
4 EUR (The tickets are only valid for this event and allow access to the exhibitions at Schwules Museum*. Admission begins 30 Minutes prior)