Proxy Paige Takes Her Own Camera Across Europe for Evil Angel’s ‘Infiltrate Proxy’

AltStar Hall of Famer Proxy Paige has been on screen since 2010, which in alt video is long enough to have watched the whole form grow up around her. She arrived with rave-bright hair, a heavily tattooed frame, a love of big toys, a taste for extreme acts and a willingness to go places her peers wouldn’t, back when alt video was still finding its feet and most of the genre’s energy lived in photo sets. By the time the AltStar Awards inducted her into their Hall of Fame in 2023, she had already collected multiple wins for videos she directed herself.

The new chapter is the logical one. Infiltrate Proxy has come out through Evil Angel on VOD and DVD, with all 12 scenes streaming on the label’s site. Paige directs and stars, and the structure is a European travelogue: she moves between locations, talks straight to the camera about what she’s getting up to, and lets the surroundings stay in the frame. The studio describes the tone as friendly and informal, with scenes that skip the usual formula and range from solo work to one-on-one encounters and an opening threesome. The cast around her includes Megan Inky, Mr. Longwood, Yan Scott, Wolf King and Mr. B.

Twelve scenes across multiple European locations, with the performer working the camera as often as she’s in front of it, is a big scope for a performer-directed release. It also suits the label. Evil Angel, founded by John Stagliano in 1989, has long run as a director-first imprint, giving its filmmakers room to make their own films rather than a house style, and a travelogue that doubles as a personal diary is exactly the kind of project that model exists to carry.

The part of this that keeps mattering is that the directing is not a pivot. Her awards came from behind the camera, and the public record has it that the performer who once made alt video louder in front of the lens now shapes how it looks from behind it, with a legacy distributor’s catalog behind the work.

This many years in, and still choosing her own frame.