Sure would be great if an image from each winner could be included for those of us that didn't memorize all the titles!

@1 or a summary

Found it! http://www.thestranger.com/film/2017/10/…

I’m still frustrated that the gay kink film Prey was taken out of the lineup for the second weekend. I don’t know what’s in it, because I wasn’t given the chance to view it as an adult.

Listen, if I have to be triggered by non-porn music videos about so-hetero-we-don’t-do-threesomes triad relationships, you should have to sit through the gay shock short that was probably made for me.

Here is the list, as pointed by @3, for a slightly quicker reference:
Objectify
Once you've got HUMP! on the brain, even the most mundane objects look a whole lot sexier.
Desert Pussy
A very real couple gets it on in Monument Valley, and they will have you dreaming of outdoor destination sex from dusk until dawn.

A Sunday Hike
The Blair Witch Project meets an anarchist EDM festival in this witchy, magical, queer porn film.
A HUMP! Public Service Announcement
Educational and sexy, this film proposes an easy way to avoid a no good, very bad day.
The Alley
Fine tattooed strangers find an extremely hot way to pass the time between a few spin cycles.
Boys at the Beach

What's more fun than a day at the beach? A day at the beach with a group meat spin!
The Code
If you haven't already been detoured by their garbage business practices, this film will convince you to never take Uber again. Lyft for life. Note: Please do not try this in your Lyft on the way home from the show.
Bum Appétit
This kinky couple skips straight past dinner to the good stuff. We knew there was a reason we liked the eggplant emoji so much.
Hermetic Dating Rituals
Animated ritualistic demon porn is a first for HUMP!, but this film makes us happy to welcome it into our kinky family.

Dark Room
You might recognize some of the cast of this rough romp. Featuring hot bodies, great sex, and an end you'll not soon forget.
Is Queefing an Instrument?
Queefing is the new rap air horn.
Prey
Set in a postapocalyptic nightmare, a man tries to outrun sexually charged hunters in this dark, kinky fantasy. The porn Cormac McCarthy would make if he were gay and kinky.
Pizza Roles
Pizza roles are always better than gender roles. Stereotypes are shattered in a piece of meta porn set on a porn set!
Bed Bugs
The ghost of boyfriends past haunt a trashed mattress.
Second Favorite Man
The #1 country banger about polyamory.
Morning Comes
Ruminations on sexual insecurity and some very real, very hot morning sex.
Oh the Savings
What really gets this solo masturbator going? Discounts!
Paramnesia
Kinky Tumblr girls shot a Lynchian porn! Get ready for sexy, scary, and simultaneously adorable nightmares.
Connection
A coffee shop fantasy turns contemporary dance routine in one of the sexiest stripteases HUMP! has ever seen.
The Spaces Between
A lesbian couple tries to overcome the barriers of an un-woke relationship.
Turiya
A Depeche Mode video on quaaludes, get ready for gender-bending, mind warping, and double-sided-dildo magic.
Dildrone
"Cool drone," said no one ever, until these folks equipped one with a dildo.

Congrats to the winners. I’m glad Bed Bugs and Dildrone are among them, nothing personal but vaguely remember the others or can’t figure out which one it was due to the somewhat cryptic official description.
Would also like to extend a personal honorary mention to two that did not: Bum Apetit- the eggplant one, and ON the Savings- the one with the coupons. Both were pioneers in their own right.

Prey sounds like simulated snuff porn, but somehow I am disappointed that I didn't get to see it too. And I'm a heterosexual non-snuff porn aficionado. Homo FOMO, I guess. I'm a grown up, lemme make up my own mind!

I'm bummed that Objectified didn't win anything. I thought it was hilarious and voted it Best in Show.

Connection was amazing and deserved to win something. Kudos to the dancers. I voted it Best Sex even though I'm not sure there was actually any sex.

Paramnesia was lame and made no sense. Dark Room should have won Best Kink hands down (or up).

Also bummed about Betty Wetter. I normally attend the Savage-hosted screenings and he does recycle most of his script every year... But he also adds a little something different for comic effect each time. Wetter stuck to the script and didn't deviate at all. No fun. Maybe Dan forbade improv?

@ 9
Connection won the $5,000 grand prix, Dick D’or, which seems a bit overrated considering there was hardly any sex involved if any at all.
Dark Room was based on a supposedly surprise twist which one could assume if you knew some of the names mentioned once the credits rolled, not to mention an act not always seen in that context and magnitude, but there was no story which I think could have made it much more interesting.

Personally I was surprised Dark Room was even eligible as both the actors were established professional porn stars. Isn't Hump supposed to be for amateurs who want to be porn stars for a weekend?

@7 Meh. I would have liked to see it. The description is intriguing and I could have used some heavy stuff in this year’s edition.

Dan made the wrong decision. I don’t think the criticism was based in homophobia, but I do think it was made in haste out of fear of mainstream backlash.

@11 They weren’t the only ones, quite a few of these seemed to come with with pro-am websites.

A snuff movie was shown? Jesus. And you wanted to see it Misanthrope? You could have used some heavy stuff? Right.

@14 I’m sure somebody totally died in the making of it. *eye roll*

decidedlyodd @ 11
The Misanthrope @ 13

I had the same professional involvement impression, which also extended to the technical, shooting and editing, side of the videos.
A bit conflicted about it as I expect a video a to be of a decent quality, yet also like to see a unique story acted by creative amateurs.

Woo! Big fan of Paramnesia, The Alley, Bed Bugs, The PSA and whatever demon summoning ritual animation.

@4: Being “triggered” by yoga mountain rolling BASE jumping burner sex is obviously equivalent to not wanting to see dismemberment/snuff porn.

Spank it to... every modern horror movie if you want that.

It apparently got the exact result it strove to achieve. Queer and het alike left unhappy and feeling shitty about life’s brutalities.

@11/13: I do think this occurs a lot with being actively trans-inclusive in the selection. My guess is that there’s a great deal more Pro Am content submitted, and perhaps a higher percentage of trans persons making a living through those means?

The Witchy-one was enjoyable, at least! Though I don't recall what made it an “EDM festival” vibe, possibly just the conditions under which it was recorded.

The genderqueer-y shades of blue one I didn’t quite get on the level of, the actors seemed sad and out of sorts mentally/physically and I felt (probably unfairly) that it seemed like some Eastern European operation.

@16: I love the creativity that comes from low resources, the higher production values often seem to focus more on equipment and playing at DP (phbbbt) than telling a story or enthusiasm. Have some fun, whether it’s with the camera or in front of it!

Also fuck YES no political figure/celebrity mask throw-ins. I’m glad that painful lesson was taken to heart.

And @15: it’s not that it can’t be done, or that there isn’t a place for transgressive stories to be told, this particular piece in its particular execution in this particular pro-Trump time when “kill the gays” politicians hold power and domestic abuser murder sprees are in the news allows for less relaxation to the fantasy.

When we’re a safer, healthier country I can guarantee that the audience would be able to distance a better reality from this fantasy. But people come to Hump for escapism as much as to be challenged. And it seems more in keeping with the sort of reality where I have Neonazis marching in my neighborhood than the sort of sex-positive reality where this challenge is easier to brush off.

@15, I forgot how cognitively impaired you were when I left out the word 'pretend.' Have you ever thought therapy might help?

@17/19 I’m sympathetic to people looking to get escapism out of Hump! But, I personally like being challenged and confronted (yes, sometimes even in my erotica), and I’m not a fan of being told that I couldn’t see something that was considered of enough quality to merit placement in the lineup. I may not even like it. I’m not handwringing because the short was amazing, but because I wasn’t given the option to make up my own mind.

That said, it wasn’t the BASE jumper/mountain climbing one that I was referencing as triggering (that had actual hot sex!) but the country music video where the “Second Favorite Man” is all “no, I don’t have sex with the other man. Stop assuming I’m bi.” *twitch*

@20 I’m sure you left out the word pretend and aren’t just a moron trying cover your ass in a failed attempt to make yourself look halfway intelligent.

Obviously Misanthrope, a real death scene is not going to be shown, silly.
And you trying to fob the focus elsewhere doesn't take away from your sick desire to see some guy sucking off another and getting his throat slit, because you needed some heavy stuff.

@21: “I’m not a fan of being told that I couldn’t see something that was considered of enough quality to merit placement in the lineup. I may not even like it.”

I get and appreciate that that. It wasn’t removed because it was confrontational so much as it made people feel shitty afterwards. It was successful and had the intended effect, but unlike the simulated gore of Mansmash or whatever knifeplay vid, this was fake-but-too-real for a lot of people. Even simulated violence is too much sometimes, and persons prefer to opt in. Sure you could leave it to the end but I think the theater walking out on it (did that happen during the initial screenings?) would have been worse.

The point is that it made many people who haven’t had a lot of reasons to complain or who politely sat through a lot of stuff that wasn’t heir bag sick and exhausted and not in any “horizon-broadening” way.

People in the audience have been in violent relationships, people have seen it firsthand, people have been threatened and stalked and had death promised and felt unsafe and your curiosity is not more important than that ultimately the festival is supposed to leave more good feelings than disgust.

@23 Here’s the problem. I respect people’s rights to opt out of stuff like that. But because of their squeamishness or trauma or whatever else you want to hint at, I was not given the choice to opt in. They didn’t say “feel free to stay for a more extreme video after the credits. They didn’t give a digital stream or in some other fashion give the second weekend (the Traditional On the Boards crowd) the opportunity that the first audience had.

You can say the video made you feel bad or sad or mad, and I’m not here to minimize those feelings. Their feelings were valid. But their feelings resulted in censorship. And that’s not valid.

@24: “But their feelings resulted in censorship. And that’s not valid.”

The overwhelming response was negative. That’s not “censorship” it’s a choice. It’s sadly a lot easier to find sexualized violence to women or queer persons than sex positive media.

@25 No, a choice is to not attend. A choice is to complain about it. Censorship is getting somebody to remove something you deem distasteful or offensive. Whether that "something" is a pro-Trump rally, an alt-right lecturer, a pro-Feminist statement, or a photo gallery of naked men in sexually compromising positions, it is still censorship.

If gay men made a video of sexualized violence about gay men, it's not a homophobic statement. Women had previously made or participated in Hump! videos with sexualized violence, some of which caused walk outs (as you mentioned, the most infamous of these has been the knifeplay one where a guy non-simulated fucked a tied up woman with a knife).

I think that with Hump!'s increasingly mainstream status, the audience has probably gotten softer in comparison to years past.

@26: Well beyond distaste, the vid made people miserable and left a bad feeling that remained after they left. The world is more than pleasing you because something made other people miserable.

@27 Counterpoint: the world is more than coddling other people’s sensitivities just because it made them miserable.

TheMisanthrope
I’m afraid you take it too seriously. The initial “censorship” occurred when Dan and assumingly others made the decision as to which videos will be shown, assuming they had dozens if not hundreds to choose from.
When a decisive audience reaction after the first few shows favored removal of a certain video then I think it was probably the right decision.

Disclaimer: The video in question was not shown on the night I watched them. Usually I trust undead’s judgment.

@29 Making a selection of videos is curation.

Editing from your final selection based on public outcry is censorship.

Whatever. Life goes on.

@30: Do you often find yourself being called a narcissist?

@32 Only by people who can’t maintain a conversation without insulting the person they don’t agree with.

@33: I’d have thought you’d take it as a compliment with how much more your interests matter than others. I mean they’re weak! Their options can be safely disregarded and shelved, right?