When I was coming down the home stretch on ASHLEY AND KISHA it suddenly occurred to me that maybe we weren’t all that well positioned to reach the film’s natural audience. I was lucky to be able to call on my friends Shine Louise Houston and Jessica Holter and say, “Halp! I’m a straight white dude. [...]
Category Archives: Bill and Desiree
Banned in Boston? (Making Films About Older Adult Sexuality)
April 10, 2009 – 10:20 am
MA State Rep, Kathi-Anne Reinstein From Marty Klein’s blog Sexual Intelligence: Massachusetts state representative Kathi-Anne Reinstein has introduced a bill making it a crime for anyone over 60 to pose nude or sexually for a film or photo. The person taking the photo—whether a lover, artist, or commercial porn maker—would also face jail time. Adding [...]
“This is what real sex looks like.” (Bill & Desiree Review)
March 5, 2009 – 8:11 am
Another wonderful review of BILL AND DESIREE: LOVE IS TIMELESS, this time from Sabrina of SabrinaInStockings.com. As with the last review I posted, I don’t have much to say, except that I’m thrilled that this film touches people the way it does! I wasn’t sure what to expect from this DVD to be honest. It [...]
“A sexual tapestry of touch, unconditional love, and vivacious desire.”
February 28, 2009 – 3:05 pm
My glib but true answer for why I make films is that there are things I want to express about sexuality, intimacy and cinematic eroticism that I cannot express with words. After reading Domina Doll’s review of BILL AND DESIREE: LOVE IS TIMELESS words fail me again, except to say thank you for taking a chance [...]
Blowfish asks, “What’s on TV?” (Bill and Desiree Review)
February 5, 2009 – 4:11 pm
For those of you who’ve come back hoping for the answer to Life, The Universe, and Everything, aka Part 3 of How Film Festivals and Distribution Deals Kill Independent Film, I got an amazing, almost providencial inquiry from an Slovenian feminist/alternative/LGBT film festival that more or less proves everything you’re going to read in Part 3 as [...]
Five Stars Four Times! (First Amazon reviews for “Bill and Desire: Love it Timeless”)
January 30, 2009 – 12:04 pm
Hard to think of a way to preface this, except to say “Wow! Thanks!” From Wired Weird, a Top 100 Amazon reviewer: According to Tony Comstock (the director), “At the time of production he was about 65 and she was just turned or about to turn 50.” Love, even sex, even really good sex, [...]
Revisiting Rated X
January 15, 2009 – 9:39 am
It’s a big weekend for us over in Amsterdam at Jennifer Lyon Bell’s “Rated-X: Amsterdam Alternative Erotic Film Festival”. Over the next couple of days we’ll have three films screening: Matt and Khym: Better than Ever; Bill and Desiree: Love is Timeless; and Damon and Hunter: Doing it Together. In the last decade, film festivals [...]
“May Touch Redeem Us”
December 15, 2008 – 10:11 am
Reactions are coming in for our new film BILL AND DESIREE: LOVE IS TIMELESS, and I couldn’t be happier. BILL AND DESIREE is the sixth of our erotic documentaries, and from the beginning I’ve hoped that these films would be understood as something more than an erotic morsel. I’ve hoped that between the love and the [...]
YouTube, Not MyTube (How hysteria-induced hypocrisy hurts all of us.)
December 4, 2008 – 9:54 am
So yesterday YouTube decided that our trailer for “Bill and Desiree: Love is Timeless” was not appropriate content, and removed the clip. Against what YouTube does consider “appropriate”, it’s a hard decision to understand, except against the broader understanding that sexual pleasure, even in the most pro-social context is still the ultimate taboo for a filmmaker. [ [...]
YouTube Removes Bill & Desiree Trailer for TOS Violation
December 3, 2008 – 9:12 pm
Yesterday we put up a trailer for Bill and Desiree on our YouTube account. Today YouTube deleted the video for a TOS violation. Here’s the trailer, off our own server: [ Javascript required to view QuickTime movie, please turn it on and refresh this page ] Here’s a College Humor clip from YouTube.com that’s [...]