… Is extremely biting. I think you’ll like Los Angeles Erotic Film Fest 2007: Wrap It Up (I’ve been working on it all day, phew). It includes lots of links to photo galleries, coverage by others (good, bad and predictable) and this Altporn, Demystified panel intro video Hacker Boy shot from the front row. The panel was packed, and even had 2.0 porn celebs like Dave Naz and Ashley Blue (I got to meet them!) and more in the audience. Snip:
For two days, the LA Knitting Factory (clearly unaware that inviting porn people into their venerable establishment meant 48 hours of flashbulb-popping, boob-baring antics) turned three rooms into film screening areas and panel presentation spaces. All levels of mainstream — and a heavy handful of indy — porn peeps invaded to talk about themselves, which, of course, no one can get enough of.
The film fest portion ran the gamut from Porn Valley panelists to independent erotic filmmakers and artists giving a taste of the wider range of international, experimental and truly transgressive films and animation. Few outside the Valley were in effect; much of the fest showcased what I already knew about. But instead of the the mind-numbing fan fest of the AVN Expo, LAEFF ’07 focused more on the porn (and its making) than the stars themselves (though the usual signings and industry trailers were fully represented, yo).
Films shown were in a range of actually exciting categories. “Artrotica” included new work by Martha Colburn, R. Kern, Bruce LaBruce, Eon McKai and Nick Zedd. The Best of CineKink NYC was a delightful collection of seven excellent shorts, including the yummy Honey and Bunny; I loved their inclusion of the biting but hilarious mockumentary “Dick Ho: Asian Male Porn Star”. There were erotic comedy film shorts; an “Eroticore” clip collection with a 20-minute “Not Another Porn Movie” entry by Joanna Angel; a teensy bit of retro clips and more. We were especially excited to see San Francisco’s Other Cinema represented in “Xperimental Eros”, a collection of experimental shorts curated by Noel Lawrence featuring works by Craig Baldwin, Mike Kuchar, Sam Green and Bill Morrison.
Like any tech conference that features panels of old media makers and mini-celebs alongside the new media mavericks — and a smattering of artists and writers throughout — some of the panels excited and inspired, while others fell flat into porn’s recurrent Navel Gazing Syndrome. Ron Jeremy made an early exit for another engagement, noted by another tattooed blogger through an unmuffled yawn (…)
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Image by Gia Jordan for AVN @ this gallery (with lots more).
