NakedSword is best known for producing hardcore gay sex, but every so often it’s delved into something a little different, such as when it funded and produced Travis Mathews excellent short film I Want Your Love. The short was still extremely explicit but concentrated on the meaning of casual sex between friends, rather than purely the pumping and grinding.
Now NakedSword is taking that further by launching NakedSword Film Works – aka NSFW – which has a mission to make films that look at gay sex but go beyond the purely titillating. As reported by NewNowNext, NakedSword says, “NSFW films do not need to have explicit sex, or even nudity, only further the conversation about gay sex.”
“We wanted to get back to the original sense of adult,” says I Want Your Love producer Jack Shamama, who is curating NWFW with NewFest programmer Adam Baran. “Not in the explicit sense, though we don’t shy away from that, but as something complex and and mature and interesting.”
“We have a large, engaged audience hungry for creative original stories.” said NakedSword founder Tim Valenti, “Hardcore is everywhere, but films that deal with sex and sexuality in a frank manner are much harder to find. Most distributors find sexual subjects difficult to handle, and we’re in a unique position to change that.”
The first three films have now been released. 100 Boyfriends Mixtape Veteran sees ‘Bay Area performer and artist Brontez Purnell make his directorial debut with this semi-autobiographical “video mix tape”, which was filmed on digital video, VHS and 8 MM film. Relying on his punk rock aesthetic to give the world a peek into his singularly unique perspective, “100 Boyfriends Mixtape” takes the viewer on an unforgettable ride that’s as audacious and hardcore as it is experimental.’
That’s been followed by Hattie Goes Cruising, which takes us into the world of ‘ Hank Major, a 70-year-old gay African-American gentleman from Philadelphia, picking up guys on the street or at old-school cruising grounds is still very much a way of life. In Konstantin Bock’s charming, funny, and poignant short documentary, the perennially horny Major, whose friends have nicknamed Hattie Louise, takes us back in time, through a turbulent life full of cruising.’
There’s also Catharsis, which is set ‘After a painful breakup, a twenty-something gay Brooklynite finds himself through the men he sleeps with and memories of what he went through. Film Festivals: LA Indie Film Festival NewFest: New York LGBT Film Festival’
You will need a NakedSword subscription to watch the films, but it’s certainly a good idea for those who sometimes want some about sex, but which isn’t your typical gay porn. It’ll be interesting to see whether it can find some traction, as while gay films have tended to be more frank about sex that straight movies, they’re rarely the pure focus or properly discussed in its own right.
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