Emre Busse is a Berlin-based researcher and pornographer.

 

His latest short film, Fistule (2026), premiered at the 19th Lust*Streifen Film Festival in Basel, where it won the Best Porn/Intimacy Award, followed by the Best Short Film Award at the 21st Porn Film Festival Berlin. The film is currently touring festivals and venues worldwide, including Anthology Film Archives in New York.

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Busse holds a PhD in art history from Freie Universität Berlin, completed with a doctoral fellowship from the Hans Böckler Foundation. His monograph Ethnicity as Desire: Post-Colonial Gay Pornographic Film in Europe was published by De Gruyter in January 2025. His chapter in Tränen aus Stahl: Männlichkeiten zwischen Verletzlichkeit und Gewalt (Tears of Steel: Masculinities between Vulnerability and Violence), edited by Justus Heitzelmann and Xenia Müller (transcript, 2026), examines migration, masculinity, and racialized desire in German gay pornography.

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He has taught seminars in pornography studies at the University of Bremen and is a member of the DFG-funded Interdisciplinary Pornography Research Network.