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  • Nagisa Ōshima

    Japanese film director

    Nagisa Ōshima ( 大島 渚 ,  Ōshima Nagisa , March 31, 1932 – January 15, 2013) was a Japanese film director and screenwriter. His films include  In the Realm of the Senses  (1976), a sexually explicit...

  • Beftival
  • sexuology
  • filmmaker
  • director
  • Biology
  • Bef-tival Explained

    beffen: verb, to lick pussy

    Going down on, eating pussy, carpet munching, muff diving, cunnilingus; these are some of the ways we refer to the act of female oral sex. But something seems to be missing from our sexual vocabulary.

  • This Pussy Has Claws

    Vagina Dentata Myths of Empowerment and Horror

    Who would have thought that apart from lips, vaginas and mouths share even more? Vagina dentata, Latin for toothed vagina, bears the idea that a vagina with teeth or claws can devour a man. She can...

  • Mediamatic Biotoop Jeanne Rousselot

    From Eye to Tongue

    A Film Dinner experience

    Getting Comfy Course 0 – Zen Pussy   by   Annie Sprinkle  (12 minutes) We were welcomed in a pink-lit room. On three screens close-ups of vulvas were speaking to us. A whisper of breathing and...

  • Beftival Photo Gallery

    A collection of photos from Beftival

  • Why Beftival?

    A Conversation with Ine Poppe and Olga Middendorp

    Beftival is coming, and, along with our growing anticipation, we also got curious to know more about the conceptual behind the scenes of it all. What pressing societal issues gave inspiration to this...

  • Oo, Oo That Smell

    What is that distinct smell after enjoying a plate of this green veggie?

    Asparagus. A lean, green vegetable with a dramatic list of healthy benefits. Many people are aware that asparagus is heart healthy, high in antioxidants, contains characteristics to heighten your...

  • Rupert Sheldrake

    And the morphic fields

    After obtaining his PhD, Sheldrake became a fellow of Clare College, working in biochemistry and cell biology with funding from the Royal Society Rosenheim Research Fellowship. He investigated auxin

  • Everything 2.0

    Bob Stumpel's Web 2.0 Treasury

    "This is a stupid simple link bank, referring to everything that just might be a symptom of Web 2.0. I'm not dogmatic. Any sign of: collective intelligence / wisdom of crowds, collaboration / sharing

  • Book: Donna Haraway 12 Dec 1990

    Simians, Cyborgs, and Women

    The Reinvention of Nature

    A powerful collection of ten essays written between 1978 and 1989. Although on the surface, simians, cyborgs and women may seem an odd threesome, Haraway describes their profound link as "creatures"...

  • Graduation Bouquet

    annex Publicity Plant

    On July 1st 2009 Sander Veenhof (1973) is graduating from the Gerrit Rietveld art academy in Amsterdam. To color up that occasion and to attract attention to himself in an overly busy contemporary...

  • Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 1#4 Pablo Collette 1 Apr 1987

    Are you being served?

    Een gat in de markt van videokunst

    Op de eerste pagina van het vorige nummer van MEDIAMATIC serveerde de redactie de lezer het smakelijk ogende ontbijtje (1613) van FLORIS VAN DIJCK. Ikzelf zou de uitgestalde waren, zoals kazen

  • Intimate Currency

    Peck As You Go by Raphael Kim

    With the world becoming more globalized with the help of the internet, businesses and payments become more intangible and digital. Such as so, payment systems are pressured to keep up with the rapid...

  • Enhanced Benches

    Furniture made active with biochemistry

    Mateusz Herczka proposes a new line of furniture for the homes, outdoors, public spaces and institutions.

  • Slime Mold Computing

    Gathering intelligence from brain-less organisms

    Physarum polycephalum, better known as slime mold, is a simple organism that can solve some very complex problems. Slime molds are intelligent enough to find their way towards food through complex...

  • Lab-specific Recipes

    How to feed and treat your micro organisms

    Working on a lab is a lot like cooking. You can prepare the food for your little pets, the micro organisms. There are a couple of rules involved; like extreme cleanliness. But if you practice a bit

  • How to tackle the whitefly?

    Whiteflies are an issue that many people who have a garden outside or in a greenhouse struggle with. Luckily there are many organic solutions for this problem. This article will discuss three types...

  • Living Roof project

    If you can’t beat them, join them.

    Living Roof geeft een sterke verbetering van de leefkwaliteit van golfplaten hutten in Zuid-Afrikaanse townships. We presenteren in 2014 in Kaapstad (world design capital) een eerste ontwerp waarbij...

  • 1 Jan 2003

    Rebecca Gomperts

    Women's activist

    Art, the sea and the struggle for selfdetermination for women.

  • webtraffic controlled plant growth

    7 plants representing 7 continents - an 'auto-interactive' installation

    A improvisational greenhouse in Kolderveen hosted 7 plants representing the 7 world continents during november and december 2008. Light and water for each plant were directly dependent on web-traffic...

  • Save Your Pearly White Teeth

    Human Ivory by Lucie Majerus

    Ivory as a material from animal tusks might still be a luxury material. But it’s controversial aspect makes it distasteful and old fashion. Instead of valorising ivory tusks as a prized possession

  • Interview Kael T Block

    On XX Boys and more

    Mediamatic's exhibition Kiki on Steroids! presents Kael T Block's project XX Boys, a collection of photographs of transboys. Rooted in his own experience as a transboy or 'FtM' (Female to Male), the...

  • Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 7#2 Arjen Mulder 1 Jan 1993

    World Names

    Brief news item: in Bosnia and Hercegovina, the first children conceived by Bosnian women after being raped by Serbian soldiers have been born. The women refuse to recognize these babies and leave...

  • In the End, We Only Have Ourselves

    Body as a Restaurant by Zane Cerpina

    Time is of the essence. Human progression and technological advancements have led us to turn our world to the new age- the Age of Man; the Anthropocene. When we can no longer rely on mother nature’s...

  • DNA Portraits

    DNA by Marc Quinn

    When the National Portrait Gallery commissioned British contemporary artist Marc Quinn to create a portrait of Sir John Sulston, a Nobel Laureate for sequencing the human genome, Quinn gave them a...

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