Fuck for Forest
Fuck for Forest ( FFF ) is a group of environmental activists that claims to finance environmental protection projects from the income from their website of the same name with amateur pornographic recordings .
idea
A group led by the Norwegian - Swedish environmental activists Tommy Hol Ellingsen and Leona Johansson started the environmental movement in 2003.
By 2004 the public intercourse occurred, should publicity to the deforestation of the rainforest are made aware. Ellingsen and Johansson had sexual intercourse during an open air event in Kristiansand (Norway) during a performance by the group The Cumshots on stage. Ellingsen, Johansson and the band were sentenced in 2005 to a fine of 1233 euros per person. Ellingsen undressed again in front of the media present. The two founders then moved to Berlin , where they hoped to benefit from a more liberal atmosphere.
In 2009 Ellingsen had to return to Norway to get a passport and the authorities gave him an ultimatum to pay the fine. According to their own account, Ellingsen and Johansson sold porn photos to a well-known Norwegian porn magazine in order to pay the fine.
In June 2011 an article about Fuck for Forest appeared in the newspaper Dagbladet , in which members of the group can be seen in photos during simulated sex during a mass in Oslo Cathedral . The group posted a video of the action on their website.
In the first episode of ProSieben telecast Schulz in the Box of the musicians visited Olli Schulz Fuck for Forest activists in 2013 in the Berlin residential community and accompanied her to a campaign in which free bare FFF members vegan food in front of a fast- Fast food restaurant distributed to passers-by.
revenue
With around 15 US dollars , customers can combine ecological and pornographic interests on the website of the same name according to their own claims . According to the TAZ, only € 3 of this will be used for administrative tasks, the rest will be donated. According to the site operators, there are around 1,000 subscribers, and around 80% of the revenue goes to the fight against deforestation . About 100,000 US dollars were generated through this action, but this was not accepted by the environmental organizations Rainforest Foundation Norway and WWF . According to the company, the proceeds will be used to finance a rainforest project in Costa Rica and a reforestation project in Ecuador .
Movie
Polish director Michał Marczak shot a documentary with parts of the group, which was released in 2012. He wrote the script for it together with Łukasz Grudziński, and the shooting took place over a period of three months in Berlin and in the Amazon basin . The film won the award for best documentary at the Warsaw Film Festival in autumn 2012 . The international premiere of the film took place in January 2013 at the Rotterdam Film Festival . In Germany there were various differentiated reviews.
criticism
The group reported some house bans in various house projects. At the congress " Anarchism in the 21st Century - Organizing Anarchy ." , Easter 2009 in Berlin, in Künstlerhaus Bethanien , towards the end of the congress, in the context of their workshop "Anarchy and Sex", discussions and disputes took place, which then dominated the congress and led to the unplanned end of the congress. At the Slutwalk 2011 in Berlin the group was pushed aside by stewards and attempts were made to expel them from the demonstration.
Similar projects
In 2018, activists for the preservation of the Hambach Forest published an erotic calendar with fetish and BDSM motifs.
Web links
- Official website of Fuck for Forest
- Gabriel Kuhn : Statement on the conflict at the Anarchist Congress in Berlin (2009). Retrieved June 15, 2012 .
- Norwegian Wood. Porn activists go all the way to save the rainforest , GRIST magazine, October 5, 2004 (English)
- Wolf-Dieter Roth: Fuck for Jail: Horizontal environmental movement threatens prison sentence , telepolis , October 6, 2005
- Film Fuck for Forest in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c FuckForForest Through The History. Archived from the original on February 20, 2012 ; accessed on October 6, 2012 (English).
- ↑ Blir measures dreary. In: Dagbladet. June 3, 2012, Retrieved March 3, 2017 (Norwegian).
- ↑ Video in Oslo Cathedral. FFF website, archived from the original on March 8, 2012 ; accessed on October 7, 2012 (English).
- ↑ TV phenomenon Olli Schulz: The pain boy by Anja Rützel on www.spiegel.de, August 26, 2013
- ↑ Fucking for the forest in Ecuador. taz , February 25, 2009, accessed March 3, 2017 .
- ↑ "Free love for free forests". In: Netzeitung. July 30, 2008, archived from the original on July 20, 2013 ; Retrieved October 8, 2012 .
- ↑ Fuck For Forest The Movie - Official Teaser on YouTube
- ↑ Description of the film on the website of the Rotterdam Film Festival ( Memento of the original from March 3, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Beatrice Behn: Birds for the Rainforest - film review on kino-zeit.de, accessed on January 29, 2013.
- ↑ Cristina Nord: Documentary "Fuck for Forest". Totally naked idealism. taz , June 7, 2013, accessed March 3, 2017 .
- ↑ Activist documentary "Fuck for Forest" intercourse of the just , by Daniel Sander, July 13, 2013
- ^ Sebastian Leber: Sex Charity in Berlin-Friedrichshain. Porn for the rainforest. Der Tagesspiegel , June 3, 2013, accessed on June 3, 2013 .
- ↑ Anarchism in the 21st Century - Organizing Anarchy. Easter congress in Berlin - 10.-13. April
- ↑ Historical low point of German anarchism
- ↑ You are Berlin: Fuck for Forest - The Naked Fighters tip
- ↑ Fuck for Forest is excluded on YouTube at Slutwalk Berlin 2011
- ↑ Environmental printing discriminates against BDSMers - reckless short-term print rejection. Friends of Hambacher Forst, August 2, 2018, accessed on August 2, 2018 .
- ↑ Hambacher Forst Erotic Calendar - 2019. Black Mosquito, accessed on August 2, 2018 .
