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Directed by Juliet Bashore | 77 minutes | R 18+ | 40th Anniversary |
8:10pm Friday, 15 May | Balam Balam Place - Cinema 3 | Buy Tickets | Buy Passes
Docu-fiction lesbian love in the porn industry -- cinema that is both verite, and very gay
Pornstar Sharon Mitchell and her girlfriend Tigr document themselves and their romance alongside the production of a pornographic film based on Carmen. The line between performance and reality is blurred for Mitchell as she struggles to differentiate the two within her relationship. The natural camerawork, places the audience as a fly on the wall in the lives of a comlicated and struggling dynamic between two women in love.
Alternately distressing, instructive, contestable, and fascinating, Juliet Bashore's quasi-documentary plunge into the 1980s porn industry takes an unsparing look at issues of misogyny, drug abuse, and exploitation via the story of our two leading women, caught in a toxic romance. Despite an at times bleak look at the circumstances, Juliet Bashore ensures an unjudgemental lens of the industry and those working in it.
Screens with a special abridged edition of Golden Age trans porn classic Sulka's Wedding (~20 minutes).
SIMILAR: Boogie Nights, I'm Still Here, Skin Flicks (1978)
"Sharon Mitchell is a fascinating figure onscreen and off." - Sam Inglis, Hey U Guys
"Great vision, great perspective, great film." - Guillem Martinez Oya, Cinematismo
CONTENT WARNING: Unsimulated sex
Country: United States
Year: 1986
Language: English