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PRESS RELEASE: AORTA films Celebrates 10 Yearsof Creating Ethical Queer Porn FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 12, 2025 Contact: Inara Tayao-Luceroinara@inara.agency NEW YORK, March 12, 2025 – As AORTA films (AORTA) marks its 10th anniversary, the indie, queer porn studio will celebrate its collaborators and members in a series of film compilations and dynamic experiences (online and in-person) now through March 2026. AORTA creates ethical porn programming as a fundamental labor practice that puts people above profits. Championing pleasure as a basic human right, the experimental studio reimagines queer and trans joy, resistance, and survival through pornography. AORTAlive The studio is launching… Read More »Press Release:

Hardcore Spotlight: Figs

HARDCORE SPOTLIGHT: Get to know FIGS! Continuing AORTA films’ new feature, we’ve got a chance to get to know an upcoming Community Hardcore artist: Figs! Check out our chat below to get to know them, and then don’t miss their Community Hardcore debut on October 1st with their super hot clip “SlugDrip“. Their clip will be October’s FREE CLIP! Want access to the rest of AORTA’s smut library? Become a member here using code CH24 for 10% off any membership! Want to introduce yourself? Hi, I’m Figs (they/them), a dominatrix, adult film model and producer, curator, artist, and author. My… Read More »Hardcore Spotlight: Figs

Hardcore Spotlight: Bug

HARDCORE SPOTLIGHT: Get to know Bug! Today we’re excited to release a new feature from AORTA films–a chance to get to know some of the brilliant makers of Community Hardcore! Today we’re featuring bug (they/them or any pronouns), a self-described “sex worker, poet, and mattress actress” based in Chicago. Check out our chat below to get to know them, and then don’t miss their Community Hardcore debut on September 26th with their super hot clip “bbw boydyke takes daddy dick for the first time“. The clip (along with pages and pages of other hot content!) will be FREE to all… Read More »Hardcore Spotlight: Bug

Welcoming BEDDED ix!

This year we’re doing BEDDED a little differently! As we approached 2024, and started to think our tenth (!!!) iteration of the BEDDED festival this December, I’d been talking with friend and colleague Nicola Rios, who is the lead programmer for the International Critical Pleasures & Film Exhibition “Excéntrico” in Chile. If I knew the plans that we’d arrive at when we started talking, I think I would have fainted from joy… The Excéntrico Festival’s “Best of Excéntrico” shorts program at the Berlin Pornfilmfestival has had my heart for the past 5 years, and is regularly, without fail, always my… Read More »Welcoming BEDDED ix!

AORTA films announces award-winning author Carmen Maria Machado as the inaugural guest artist in the queer porn studio's new Induction Series

HAUNTED KICKSTARTER RELEASE

Award-winning, queer author Carmen Maria Machado will collaborate with indie queer porn studio AORTA films as the writer of a not yet titled multifaceted project as part of the studio’s “Induction Series.” Premiering as a collection, the project will…

Behind the Scenes: November ’22 Shoot!

Behind the Scenes: November ’22 Shoot! Hi crushes!We just got back from our shoot and WOW did we have a blast! We shot 5 films over the course of three days (with a travel day on either end), and had an absolute blast making some ridiculously hot new films. We shot with our biggest and most talented team yet–5 performers (Priestex, Dulce Fuego, Dee Darkholme, Empress Wu, and Mia Secreto), a DP and Gaffer team (Julia C Moses and Kenzi Crash), Sound Tech (Sunshine), Director/Intimacy Coordinator team (Mahx Capacity and Papi Femme), a set service person (Beau Flex), and a… Read More »Behind the Scenes: November ’22 Shoot!

AORTA films announces award-winning author Carmen Maria Machado as the inaugural guest artist in the queer porn studio's new Induction Series

INDUCTION RELEASE

Award-winning, queer author Carmen Maria Machado will collaborate with indie queer porn studio AORTA films as the writer of a not yet titled multifaceted project as part of the studio’s “Induction Series.” Premiering as a collection, the project will…

Introducing: BEDDED I

Happy June and happy Pride!
I’m cooped up inside, feeling blue about the loss of my impending summer, the lack of touch, and the heartbreak and rage at all that’s so deeply and infuriatingly wrong with this present moment. At the same time, I’m feeling excited to announce AORTA’s first-ever BEDDED festival…

AORTA films transition statement

When we (Parts Authority, Mahx Capacity, and Ginny Woolf) founded AORTA films in 2015, our deep friendship and queer intimacy was at the heart of our work together. We wanted to make…