I’m doing something a little different with this review. Instead of, say, writing something properly, I decided to take running notes while I watched. It works out for both of us, because I get to be lazy and not really try, and you get to the experience of being there. Or not.
Why do you watch porn? Is it for the plot? The acting? The (non-sexual) stunts? The dancing? How about car and motorcycle chase scenes?
What’s that you say? You watch porn for the sex?! You want to look at hot girls fucking in interesting ways, and maybe just relax for ten minutes and jerk off all over yourself? Yeah, me too! Unfortunately I guess that no one told Joanna Angel, the director and star of this movie, because she has some very strange ideas about what should be included in an adult movie. And how to film one. The sex here, what there is of it, is lifeless and dull, and the cinematography and lighting are fairly terrible and often utterly counterproductive and frustrating. If there is one thing that a porno should not be, it’s frustrating.
If I were to wildly oversimplify things, I could put the kinds of content we cover at altporn.net into two camps: artsy erotica and bonerfying pornography. In reality most of it falls somewhere between the two, with sites like FatalBeauty.com floating over near planet Artsy Erotica, and movies like Joanna’s Angels in a shallow orbit around the celestial sphere of Porn.
Alter Ego, the new film from Carlos Batts, is very, very much in the artsy erotica camp; properly emphasized, the ARTSY erotica camp. AE is a carnival of sensuality and skin and bent gender in slow motion, reminiscent of David Lynch and, less frequently, Andy Warhol.
AE is Carlos Batts’ tribute to April Flores/Fatty D, the voluptuous erotic performer and “super muse” who slides effortlessly between phat azz lowrider chica, living porcelain doll, and deadly stitched-up horror vixen. Batts’ moody, ethereal imagery captures a wide-ranging series of Flores’ erotic experiences, some of them sexy, some of them disturbing. Slow-paced and set to a stew of electro and hip-hop, it’s the kind of thing you watch in a quiet room at 2am when no one’s awake.
The altporn scene is just taking off in the mainstream adult industry, and it’s likely that we’re going to get a lot more punk/goth porn vids on the market. I’m not complaining, because I dig watching punk rawk girls get it on bigtime, but films like Alter Ego are important contrasts to easier-to-swallow porn. We need works like this to remind ourselves of the wide-ranging possibilities of erotic art.
Watching the first DVD release from Sapphos Girls, I sorta felt like the white guy at the club wearing FUBU gear — it wasn’t made for me, but I certainly enjoy pretending it was. It’s a choice piece of independently-produced erotica by women, for women, with an emphasis on authenticity.
I’m very excited about the release of Alter Ego, a DVD starring April Flores (aka Fatty D) by Carlos Batts.
Stunningly voluptuous muse April Flores’ real life fantasies and adventures have been documented over the past 5 years by acclaimed photographer/director Carlos Batts. Now available for the first time ever on DVD, Alter Ego: A poetic visual erotic tale. You’ll get a glimpse into their real life erotic adventures and kinky photo sessions.
Check out the trailers in Quicktime or Windows Media format, and dig these production pics below:
It’s official! No Fauxxx and Blowfish are teaming up to produce the first No Fauxxx DVD ever, complete with exclusive porn, art films, and live performance footage. This DVD will be the first of it’s kind, as it will document the diversity of the queer community as well as reveal our multiple talents as performers, artists, and porn stars – not to mention a star-studded, punk-as-fuck soundtrack!!! This DVD is already under production, but we need your help!
Read all the info in the NoFauxxx LJ.
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