So everyone seems to start out asking, " How'd a nice girl like you start making lesbian porn?" tter yet, how is it that in a year, we've got a film (Gallery Erotica) that's been nominated for an Adult Video News award for Best Pro-Am Video. I suppose they think it strange that a struggling documentary film person, an artist, would make a dirty movie. Well, OK, maybe it is, a little bit. But this year has been an amazing ride… I mean that pun… I really do…
It kind of all started with my last documentary, "What Can 2 Girls Do Together? It was all interviews with straight guys, asking them about their fascination with lesbians and lesbian sex.The answers were alternately intriguing and infuriating, but one fact emerged -- most guys learn what they think they know about lesbians from porn. Porn made by guys. Starring mostly straight girls. So I went and rented a bunch of lesbian porn movies to see what they were seeing. And after watching a whole lot, I was alarmed. For one thing, the depictions of "lesbians" were way off the mark, and as a filmmaker, I knew I could do better. Could we make a movie that had authentic lesbian sex, starring real lesbians and bi-girls that was not only visually pretty but really, really hot without giving in to the standard porn conventions?
My friend Chance-- better known as Kathryn MacGregor,the busty (32FF) star of Gallery Erotica - sat on my bathroom floor and petted my housebunnies ( no, that is not a euphemism, I really have house bunnies as pets) and wrote the script. We knew that lots of people ( ourselves included) got turned on looking at sexy art.We also knew two top fetish photographers, Corwin and Donna Clancy-Goetz, and wanted to base the movie around a gallery of lesbian fetish photographs.We conscripted my friend Kurt Hardy again to help film and edit. Now you need to know, Hardy is a gay man who's fairly pleased and astonished that he's making lesbian porn. All his straight guy friends are envious, but his gay friends are like , " You're making.. what????" Hours and hours of editing pussy, but hey, he's a champ.We live in a town known for its gorgeous lesbians and we signed on the beautifully curvaceous blonde, Maitresse Elise to play a lost French girl driving a convertible. Coyote and a very hot Goth chick with multiple piercings took on the part of the bitchy gallery owner who gets ravished. Kathryn got to play the buxom assistant who gets seduced by a predatory performance artist, played by Angel.We had a truly stunning cast - what could go wrong? Then the gremlins set in. One of the actresses got sick. One got arrested for unpaid parking tickets. Our locations fell out three times the week before shooting. I was starting to go crazy. Down two actresses and no time to find more, I decided to play one of the parts in Gallery ( under a suitably exotic alias). My lover, Piper, stepped in to play the foot fetish scene with Chance, which was actually really hot for me to film! In spite of everything, we had a blast making the movie - from the hilarious lunch stories we told, to the girl-girl " pee-off" in the countryside (they're in the out-takes), we loved being a part of the creative energy of cast and crew. We filmed the movie in four days. Hardy and I took a look at what we were filming and knew we had something good! We also knew we had something very, very sexy. The gallery theme not only worked, it was sexy as hell.And the lesbian sex was wild, nasty and truly authentic.These were not straight girls going through the motions for the camera!Some of my politically correct friends snubbed me for making a naughty movie, but I gained others who thought that lesbians making actual lesbian movies was cool We constantly get good reviews from everyone, but it especially pleases me when women say "I usually hate porn but your movie really turned me on!" (I figure guys would rather watch a movie with a date and then make wild passionate love rather than watch it alone, anyway.). My mother was proud of me ( her only big decision was what to wear to the AVN Awards show!) My lover, who's now a porn star, is getting used to being recognised. Chance is still writing erotica and, as always, has both men and women panting after her.And it thrills me that in a year, Hardy and I made a movie that's being honored as one of the best of the year! So would I do it all again? You bet! What's a nice girl like me doing making lesbian porn? Well.. maybe I was a little naughtier than I thought………!For more information on Alpha, visit Passionfruit Vidoe