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The Intense Ironic Beauty of Making Love With A Camera
Porn Club Adult Film Review #6 for PinkLabel.tv
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On a simple level, Camera and I — acclaimed director Shine Louise Houston’s latest film short — feels like an ironic homage to the “make love to the camera” epic that is Annie Sprinkle’s classic Deep Inside Annie Sprinkle. However, on a more complex, intellectual level, Camera and I — as a comparatively raw, fascinating, and ironic film wherein actress Jasko Fide literally “makes love with a camera” — explodes Deep Inside Annie Sprinkle’s traditional expectation.
Released in 1981, Deep Inside Annie Sprinkle is a “docu-porn” wherein legendary director Joe Sarno films Sprinkle “making love to the camera” discussing her then taboo-defying sexual fantasies and then creating those as erotic scenes recorded on film. Sprinkle’s narrative voice removes the “fourth wall,” adding a groundbreaking intimacy. Furthermore, because of the gauzy lighting and soft camera effects, it bizarrely smacks of a take on hardcore porn viewed through the softcore lens. These fascinating…
