Film
Playing with Fire
When lightning strikes ignite a firestorm in the redwood forests of Boulder Creek, CA, artist-activists, Beth and Annie—partners for 23 years—are forced to evacuate with their dog, Butch. They don’t just survive the CZU Fire—they are transformed by it.
This fiery documentary becomes a love letter to resilience, queerness, and the Earth. The couple navigates trauma, social fires, and climate crisis—honoring voices from formerly incarcerated firefighters to Indigenous elders to trans community. Albert, a wild, white peacock helps narrate the story, which ends with a Wedding to Fire. Can we learn to live with fire instead of fighting it? This mythopoetic doc film dares to imagine a future aflame with love.
Water Makes Us Wet
With a poetic blend of curiosity, humor, sensuality and concern, this film chronicles the pleasures and politics of H2O from an ecosexual perspective.
Travel around California with Annie, a former sex worker, Beth, a professor, and their dog Butch, in their E.A.R.T.H. Lab mobile unit, as they explore water in the Golden State. Ecosexuality shifts the metaphor “Earth as Mother” to “Earth as Lover” to create a more reciprocal and empathetic relationship with the natural world. Along the way, Annie and Beth interact with a diverse range of folks including performance artists, biologists, water treatment plant workers, scholars and others, climaxing in a shocking event that reaffirms the power of water, life and love.
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Running time 80 minutes. Starring: Beth Stephens & Annie Sprinkle. Juno Films website
Goodbye Gauley Mountain
Stephens and Sprinkle, two ecosexuals in love, raise performance art hell in West Virginia to help save the region from mountaintop removal destruction.
This film, chronicles their love, activism, and struggle to save their family home, climaxing with their wedding to the Appalachian Mountains.
The film’s structure juxtaposes ugly and beautiful, sadness and humor, to make the fight against MTR a little more sexy, fun, hopeful and diverse. We join locals in extreme tree hugging, sky gazing, rock kissing, and singing to the earth, and the film climaxes with a purple themed wedding to the Appalachian Mountains.
Ecosexual Weddings
We performed countless large-scale, small-scale, and quickie weddings to nature entities, beginning with our Green Wedding to the Earth in 2008.
This 10-minute performance documentation video features seven of these happenings. Watching it will give you a good taste of what the weddings were like, the vows we made, and the communities that collaborated with, celebrated with, and fell in love with. For more details, visit loveartlab.org.
Imagine the Earth is Your Lover; The One Minutes
We were invited to curate a film series of one-minute films, Imagine the Earth as Your Lover for, The One Minutes.
Annie Sprinkle & Beth Stephens explain that “Ecosexual is an identity concept. For some of us being ecosexual is our primary (sexual) identity, whereas for others it is not. Ecosexuals can be GLBTQI, heterosexual,asexual, and/or something else. The ecosex community includes artists, academics, sex workers, sexologists, healers, environmental activists, nature fetishists, gardeners, business people, therapists, peace activists, eco-feminists, scientists, educators, (r)revolutionaries, punks, critters and other entities from diverse walks of life. We are polymorphous and pollen- amorous. We are everywhere! To us it is evident that we are all part of, not separate from, nature. Thus, all sex is ecosex.
Here is the Trailer.
The Doggie Position; Fur babies fur Biden
When the 2020 election loomed, we wanted to do something to get dogs back in the White House. So we produced this 54-second video with our co-conspirator friends. Perhaps our fabulous video made it happen!
Here are the Trailer and the credits.
Kiss
Just before Annie started chemo, Madison Young invited us to perform for an event she was curating called Private vs. Public on May 19, 2005, at Artist Television Access in the heart of San Francisco’s Mission District. We loved how pleasurable, transcendental, and even creative a long kiss could be and decided we would do a public kiss for three hours straight, as gallery goers milled about. We had agreed with each other that we wouldn’t go beyond kissing, which turned out to be quite challenging. We liked how minimal and meditative this performance piece turned out to be. We called it Extreme Kiss and performed it many times in different contexts and countries.