Annie Sprinkle
Biography
Annie Sprinkle, Ph.D., is a ground breaking feminist artist, long time filmmaker, and certified sexologist. From 1974 to 1996 Sprinkle worked on 100+ adult feature films. Sprinkle has appeared in dozens of documentaries and six B movies,before becoming an internationally renowned performance artist and an independent filmmaker. The connections she made along the way shaped her involvement in feminist politics, human rights, and freedom of expression; and she remains avidly committed to all of these ideals. Films Annie Sprinkle has directed/produced have shown in hundreds of film festivals around the world. Sluts & Goddesses (1990) broke new ground in feminist films. Sprinkle was a paid consultant for HBO’s The Deuce with Maggie Gyllenhaal. Annie Sprinkle’s 2027 film, Water Makes Us Wet, premiered at the prestigious German art festival, documenta 14 (where she also performed, lectured and had an exhibition), and then screened at NY’s MoMA. A few of her awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship for filmmaking, four San Francisco Arts Commission grants, the Kathy Acker Award for Achievement in the Avant Garde (2014), the Artist/Scholar/Activist Award from Performance Studies International at Stanford (2013) and Tom of Finland Lifetime Achievement Award (2020). Her archive is housed at Harvard. These days Annie Sprinkle is screening the third film in her queer environmental documentary film trilogy, Playing with Fire—An Ecosexual Emergancy. She’s also on an HBO special, Dear Ms.—A Revolution in Print. At 71 years old, Sprinkle is still active in filmmaking.
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Movies (49)
A Body to Live In
as Self
2025
Playing with Fire: An Ecosexual Emergency
as Self
2025
Dear Ms.: A Revolution in Print
as Self
2025
The Unabridged Mrs. Vera's Daybook
as Self
2022
Deep Throat: When Porn Makes Its Premiere
as Self
2022
Smut Without Smut: Satanic Horror Nite
as (archive footage)
2021
Genderation
as Self
2021
Female Ejaculation & Other Mysteries of the Universe
as Herself
2020
The Celluloid Bordello
as Self
2019
Ecosex, a User's Manual
2019
Water Makes Us Wet: An Ecosexual Adventure
as Self
2019
Exotic
2016
Goodbye Gauley Mountain: An Ecosexual Love Story
as Self
2014
UnHung Hero
as Self
2013
The Sarnos: A Life in Dirty Movies
as Self
2013
Lesbian Sex Education: Female Ejaculation
2012
Mommy Is Coming
Casting Director (Production)
2012
Annie Sprinkle's The Golden Girl
2012
Desiree Cousteau & Friends: Big & Natural
as (archive footage)
2010
Mutantes: Punk Porn Feminism
as Self - Interviewee
2009
Sick & Nasty Classic Porn Previews
as (archive)
2008
Annie Sprinkle's Amazing World of Orgasm
2007
NY77: The Coolest Year in Hell
as Self
2007
The Kinky World of Annie Sprinkle
2006
Dick Ho: Asian Male Porn Star
as Herself
2006
Electra Elf: The Beginning
2005
Annie Sprinkle Rides Again
2005
The Keep
as Herself
2005
When Rated X Ruled the World
as Self
2004
Annie Sprinkle's House Party
as (archive footage)
2004
The Naked Feminist
as Self
2004
The Prince of Porn
as Self
2002
Bad Girl
as Self
2001
The Real Linda Lovelace
as Self
2001
Give Me Your Soul...
as Self
2000
Gendernauts: A Journey Through Shifting Identities
as Self
1999
Herstory of Porn: Reel to Real
as Herself
1999
Ecstasy in Entropy
1999
Buttman Confidential
as (archive footage)
1998
Lucky People Center International
1998
Erotica: A Journey Into Female Sexuality
as Self
1997
I Was a Jewish Sex Worker
as Herself
1996
Bubbles Galore
as God
1996
Affliction
1996
Fire in the Valley – Female Genital Massage
1995
Straight for the Money
as Herself
1994
Post-Porn Modernist: My 25 Years as a Multimedia Whore
1993
Female Misbehavior
as Herself
1992
War Is Menstrual Envy
1992