Progressive Touch depicts three futuristic, absurdist love scenes in which the goal is to “improve” sex by complicating its rhythm and choreography. Sex as dance as comedy – with every move synchronized to the propulsive electronic score.
WORLD PREMIERE: International Film Festival Rotterdam 2020, Ammodo Tiger Shorts Competition
FESTIVAL SCREENINGS (to date)
Mammoth Lakes Film Festival – Special Mention for Creative Vision
Choreoscope Barcelona Dance Film Festival 2021
Guanajuato International Film Festival 2021
Peephole Filmfest – Best Erotic Short
Porn Film Festival Vienna 2021 – Best Austrian Short
Santa Fe Independent Film Festival 2021
Torino Underground Cinefest 2021
SECS Festival 2021 – Best Comedy Film
Fantasia International Film Festival 2021
Palm Springs International Shortfest 2021
Filmfest Dresden 2021
Vienna Shorts 2021
Mecal Pro | 22º Festival Internacional de Cortometrajes y Animación de Barcelona 2021
Slamdance 2021
Fantastic Film Festival Australia 2021
Fantaspoa – International Fantastic Film Festival, Porto Alegre 2021
Florida Film Festival 2021
London Short Film Festival 2021
Norwegian Short Film Festival 2020 – Honorable Mention Best International Short
Pornfilmfestival Berlin 2020 – Winner for Best International Short
Queer Lisboa – International Queer Film Festival 2020
Leiden Shorts Festival 2020
Luststreifen Film Festival Basel 2020
Lima Alterna Festival de Cine 2020
Oslo/Fusion International Film Festival 2020
Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival 2020
Uppsala Short Film Festival 2020
Three-Channel Video installation
Exhibited at Steirischer Herbst 2019, Vleeshal Center for Contemporary Art, 2020
2020.
Austria, Netherlands, USA
Michael Portnoy
Michael Portnoy
Tizo All, Ilona Bankiraj, Marc Philipp Gabriel, Juan Felipe Amaya González, Astrid Panaken, Deva Schubert