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Adding multiple crew members to the mix was risky and very difficult.īut that didn’t stop us, and film lovers worldwide, from enjoying the films recently made and still well available for sensual enjoyment. It was very difficult to assemble a new cast of two or more performers who are already sharing a pandemic pod and thus allowed to kiss and caress and have sex. Those of us with footage already “in the can” were fortunate. For most filmmakers, crew, and especially performers, 2020 left us stuck in a holding pattern for creating new work. I was lucky to have a film already shot which I could work on during lockdown. And now, during the pandemic, it feels surreal and rebellious to be this physically close to someone else it’s now a privilege. Combined with the fun and giddy way that Bishop and Kali start out the film together, laughing uncontrollably, the physical and emotional intimacy weave together in such a warm way that I almost didn’t expect it when it shifts into heavy breathing and climax. When we see Kali’s hair, we are inside her hair, even smelling the fragrance of her hair. So this was my first experience integrating a high-frame-rate macro lens camera into my shooting - I really wanted the viewer to feel they were practically pressed up against Bishop and Kali in those moments. What made this film different for me than my others is that I already knew how important it would be to bring out the erotic sensations of very small movements, like eyelashes brushing a cheek.
The only instruction is to enjoy yourselves by playing around with that body part as long as it remains fun, then pick another card. I gave them a simple game: Around the room are hidden various playing cards, each with the name of a typically nonsexual body part - elbow, eyelashes. Wild Card is my latest “erotic game” movie, in which Bishop Black and Kali Sudhra themselves have no idea what will happen next. It’s been a fun challenge to represent this dynamic through different film forms. Like with all my movies, Wild Card is meant to evoke the feeling I love in sex: The excitement and erotic pull of guessing what exactly will happen next because you and your partner are improvising together as you go. I concepted it well before the pandemic, but what fills the screen now, I realize, is a love letter to human touch which makes me practically ache with nostalgia. More than just being proud that we got a film finally made in the depths of a pandemic, watching Wild Card now fills me with hope. I was able to cobble together my favorite postproduction crew - editor/colorist/compositor, sound designer, motion graphics designer, composers - and work remotely together over the following months to get it done. I feel very lucky that I finished shooting my erotic film Wild Card before Amsterdam’s lockdown in spring 2020. In-person shooting of couples and groups has, by necessity, slowed to a sanitary trickle.
What seemed manageable to handle for a month or two - no hugging outside of your household pod, no new dates without rigorous measures - is starting to feel like a real and permanent loss.Īs an adult erotic filmmaker myself, I’m painfully aware that the adult film industry has of course been terribly hard-hit by the ban on physical contact. The relentless slog of this pandemic has, undeniably, left a lot of us bereft of human physical contact.
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