Making and Curating Porn In The Time Of Corona
To help out our sex worker friends, I’ve offered to feature their previously existing films at Bright Desire. I’m going to add a new performer-produced film every week starting this Friday. Read More …
Tag: Filmmaking
“Dear Jiz” At On Our Backs Exhibition New York
My film “Dear Jiz” is now an official art exhibit at the Leslie-Lohman Gay and Lesbian Art Museum in New York. I’m thrilled to be part of the On Our Backs exhibition and feeling chuffed that my work would be see as art. Read More …
XHamster’s “Porn For Women” Competition Is Exploitative
For the last few years the Mindgeek tube / piracy sites have been running what I call a “porn-for-women-washing” campaign. Sites like Pornhub get good mainstream media publicity by releasing visitor statistics highlighting what female visitors are viewing – here’s my 2014 take on what’s wrong with that: “What Women Want” according to a mainstream tube site. Most recently the headlines were how their “porn for women” category was the Read More …
Festivals and Awards
I thought I’d finally get back to posting on my poor, neglected blog by telling you all how fabulous I am. I’ve had my work shown at a bunch of festivals lately and I’ve won two awards in 2018 so far -“Yes Campaign” won “Best Advocacy Short” at Cinekink in New York and “Oral Exam” won “Sexiest International Short” at the Toronto International Porn Festival (formerly the Feminist Porn Awards). Read More …
Berlin Porn Film Festival 2017
My annual roundup of the Berlin Porn Film Festival. The 2017 edition was super busy with a lot of great short films and much socializing. I also did a LOT of shooting. Read More …
In Which I Become An Indie Porn Icon
I was named Indie Porn Icon at the Toronto International Porn Festival (formerly the Feminist Porn Awards) and my film Trinity won Sexiest Short. Read More …
The Berlin Porn Film Festival 2016
And thus is came to pass that October whizzed around again and that meant it was time for the 11th PornFilmFestival Berlin. So we got on a plane and spent 3 days in transit in order to visit our Berlin porn family and be inspired by a bunch of clever, entertaining and sexy films. Read More …
Poor, Neglected Blog; What I’ve Been Up To
I’ve neglected this blog for months, again. Here’s a glimpse at what I’ve been doing instead: filming scenes, revamping sites, having fun. Read More …
Berlin Porn Film Festival 2014: Filmmaker in Focus, The Fantasy Project Premiere, Jury Member
The 2014 Berlin Porn Film Festival is going to be huge for me thanks to three separate honours: I’m on the short film jury, I’m hosting a Filmmaker in Focus Session and I’m premiering my first feature film The Fantasy Project. Read More …
Lost In Filmeditistan
I’ve been beavering away for almost four weeks on my featuring film The Fantasy Project, editing it into some kind of watchable thing. Read More …
The Fantasy Project – Teaser
My first feature film, The Fantasy Project, has finished principal photography and is awaiting editing. Here’s a teaser trailer to give a sneak peak of what I’ve made. Read More …
Festivals, Panels and Filming, Oh My!
My films are screening at the Berlin Porn Film Festival and the Perv Queerotic Film Festival in Sydney. I am on a couple of panels discussing feminist porn in Sydney and Melbourne. Read More …
Fist Of The Spider Woman
Here’s the trailer for the short film I made with Courtney Trouble in Toronto after the Feminist Porn Awards in April. It’s a queer, film noir, masturbatory ghost story, all venetian blinds, neon and saxophone music. It’s the latest in my solo voiceover series. This one is based on an erotic story that Courtney wrote in which she imagines sex with a dead lover. It has a nice, melancholy tone Read More …
New Short Film: Dear Jiz
Dear Jiz from Ms Naughty (Louise Lush) The full short film is available at Bright Desire. It’s taken a month of editing (perfectionist stress mixed with procrastination) but yesterday I finally released the scene I shot with Jiz Lee in Toronto. It’s called “Dear Jiz” and it mixes erotic/sensual images of Jiz in the bath with a voiceover featuring emails and comments from Jiz’s fans. Many of the letters describe Read More …
Advice for Aspiring Male Porn Performers
I totally get why guys want to appear in porn. It seems like the perfect job: you get to fuck beautiful women for money, right? And there’s no real social stigma attached for men like there is for women. Indeed, the average guy might assume that he’d be considered a stud and lauded for his sexual prowess. The reality is very different. Being a male porn star requires a very specific set of skills. Read More …