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Peter de Rome took to the camera when homosexuality was still outlawed during the 1960s, yet painted his experience as a gay man into a series of poetic, chimerical, sexually charged vignettes. The avant-garde filmmaker, who passed away this summer weeks before his 90th birthday, was a bespectacled, quintessentially English guy admired by Warhol and British player John Gielgud. Starting as a sui generis hobby, his legacy has been immortalized in the canon of same-sex attracted erotica that is seen in director Ethan Reid’s titillating documentary, Peter de Rome: Grandfather of Gay Porn. Accompanying an excerpt of the film—seen here for the first time with a look at one of the director’s most infamous and enthralling works, Underground (1972)—are De Rome’s musings on first beginnings and the fantasy of erotica.
My very first proper, improper, motion picture was a brief thing called Butch Easter. One time, I was sitting in a park and it was Easter Day and a boy came along. I was using my film camera, and he walked right into my lens, and out again. I followed him, and we walked into the Easter celebration and I followed him back to the Rockefeller Plaza and he came home with me. It was a ve
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She’s dredging it up now? Isn’t she partly to blame anyway? And why didn’t she cry out at the time? Genuine rape victims have to face similar dangerous questions, as does the heroine of this feature motion picture debut by director Tereza Nvotová. Seventeen-year-old Lena’s carefree world comes crashing down when she is raped at home by her maths teacher. The attacker calmly walks away, but Lena ends up in a psychiatric hospital. But even there she can’t bring herself to relate anyone what happened to her, since it doesn’t appear the staff are prepared to combat secondary victimisation… Nvotová offers up a drama which clearly demonstrates that rape only marks the beginning of a series of distressing experiences, and brings to light an often marginalised problem exacerbated by inadequate professional help. The oppressive subject matter acquires create as an assured research of the main ethics and of those around her, their contours nuanced by Marek Dvořák’s camerawork and by Dominika Morávková, whose Lena comes to realise that only she can find the ability that lies within her. KVIFF
Legendary leatherman Jack Fritscher met Identify Hemry in 1979 at Harvey Milk’s birthday party and the two fell head over heels in love. When the AIDS epidemic swept through San Francisco, the couple left the urban area to begin a new venture: turning a rural ranch in Sonoma County into a safe-sex porn studio that offered viewers new sexual possibilities in an age of plague. Casting rugged, non-professional models to explore their unique erotic fantasies onscreen, the studio explored a wild array of queer kinks and helped champion sex-positivity in the porn industry. Raw and uncensored, the film is still an ode to love: the love of Jack and Mark, the affection of life and that treasure is indeed love. Raw! Uncut! Video! is a love story….about fetish porn.
This film contains graphic sex that might be objectionable to some viewers.
Year
2021
Runtime
79 minutes
Language
English
Country
USA
Premiere
WORLD
Director
Ryan A. Ivory and Alex Clausen