Funny. “The Decline of Western Civilization” WAS for my generation.
But that bold statement is what’s being said about the new documentary by director Ramzi Abed that centers on the alt-porn scene called “The New Erotic.”
If you haven’t seen any of it, and now that I think about it I don’t think I’ve covered a lot of it here, the alt-porn scene is a really cool, down and dirty, stylish and non conventional avenue for adult film. The girls are natural, “warts and all,” artsy types, many with tattoos and piercings and they’re filmed in ways that sometimes make you remark to yourself afterwards that you actually kinda just saw something beautiful. I am anxiously awaiting the release of one such film called “Eyelashes” in fact.
“The New Erotic” is an account of this revolution. An important film that features many of the mainstays and groundbreakers like Eon McKai, Kimberly Kane, Dave Naz, Vena Virago and more.
A nice piece of the marketing materials reads: THE NEW EROTIC is the first documentary focusing on the fearless erotic artists working in the so-called “altporn” scene, where punks, gallery artists, and visual designers create edgy, pornographic films that fly in the face of conventional eroticism and redefine beauty. Renaming themselves after punk heroes and serial killers, they eschew the previous generation of cosmetically enhanced professional pornstars, instead filming their naturally figured, mostly non-blonde hipster friends in a unique style that borrows its edge from NYC’s Cinema of Transgression and mashes it up against a mumblecore aesthetic with a post-Suicide-Girls/post-American-Apparel sensibility.
If you’re looking for something new and inventive with your porn I highly recommend checking out this incredibly seductive and unabashed sub-genre that, sure, won’t be for everybody but is a high cut above your average “the pizza man is here” kind of story telling.
Due to drop Summer 2010.
Tags: Alternative Porn, Porn, pornography