Closing the Circle
I just got off the phone with my friend Phil. He and his wife Masae were the first couple we ever shot – the very first test shoot we ever did when we embarked on this approach to sex and cinema nearly ten years ago. We’ve stayed in touch with them over the years. We’ve shot a couple more tests with them (to work out threesome shooting), they house sat for us a few Summers ago, and we used their house for our shoot last month during the Blizzard of 2005. They’re two of the nicest, sexiest, most authentic people we know.
Anyway Phil called to see how our adventure in San Francisco went and to let me know that they feel like they’re at a point where they want to make a lasting statement about how important sexuality is in their relationship. He and his wife and their lover would like to shoot a released love-scene and interview with us. I couldn’t be more honored that they’d ask us to help them make that statement.
It also gives me a nice feeling of “closing the circle”. When we first approached Phil and Masae with our ideas I didn’t have much beyond a few Legshow Magazine layouts and some decidedly unsexy corporate work to show them. We wanted them to get naked, have sex, and then lets us take the tapes back to the edit suite to work on them, all with the promise that they wouldn’t end up on the internet. I don’t know why they trusted us but they did, and we made them a beautiful little tape that they still enjoy watching to this day (I think they’ve shown it to a few other people too.)
Since that first shoot with Phil and Masae, we’ve become a little more sophisticated with our approach. We shot them with a mismatched paired of Hi8 cameras; now we shoot a pair with Super16s with matched lenses. When we first shot Phil and Masae we went on pure instinct; now that instinct is informed by years of experimentation and study. But one thing was there and the begining, and hasn’t changed at all — Phil and Masae were and are two very real people who agreed to share their very real sex with our cameras. That night they might have been having sex for the camera that night, but they were together for each other. And ten years later they still are. And from what they’ve told me, their sex is better (and wilder!) than ever.
-T.C.
