(By Jose Maria Ponce ) - Getting to Pablo Fross can become an adventure. To prepare this article I invited him to dinner at my house. It was a pleasant and comfortable to talk about his work, his life and projects. Madrid invited to stroll through almost summer temperatures and Paul decided to come home on foot. Barely half an hour between the two homes. But, for unknown reasons appeared in the Zoo de la Casa de Campo and the Amusement Park. It took over two hours to arrive and when it finally appeared it was literally exhausted. Despite the incident, the result of an oversight uppercase, food, limited by the time a simple baked chicken, passed between jokes and good vibes.
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(By Jose M. Ponce ) - Should not be coincidence that the exhibition which opens next month in Madrid Bruce LaBruce should be entitled "Obscenity." Controversial and provocative, alternative and long border, the Canadian artist has often been criticized as obscene from different fronts. However, something that LaBruce has made clear is that moves like a fish in water in that kind of razor's edge that sometimes separates the hardcore art. Theirs is so personal, non-transferable and unclassifiable that it is difficult to label. Sometimes it seems independent film, in other cases is similar to gay porn, often plays with stereotypes of the queer movement themselves, there is often framed in youth cultural movements-punk, for example-but always ends up being transgressive and provocative. Hence the bad reputation and glory.
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(By Jose Maria Ponce ) - I remember years ago we shared the car missed Luis Garcia Berlanga , Santiago Segura and me. Santiago Luis was still a student and was in full authority. In fact, he was the driver of the vehicle. The conversation turned to the problems of Spanish cinema and the three agree that if we knew something was not done was the sound. Our live sound was-and is-deficient (some actors do not help much) and also we had to endure the tyranny of dubbing. I tell this story without any attempt to throw me the ratatouille with the quality of my companions, but to put the reader in a situation.
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(By Jose Maria Ponce ) - The effect CHIC woke up the sleepy Spanish industry. Distribution companies (in this period produced even one in Spain) sold their films to the weight. They bought and sold without looking the same way, much more concerned about the covers you for the content. The presence of an independent review and informed them reflect. Until the arrival of CHIC, in porn was worth everything. Since then, not anymore. That handful of youngsters apparently mindless, dared to question plans, scripts, scenes, sequences and even interpretations. They judged the films from a sexual perspective, of course, but also in terms of artistic values, creative, production and direction. The times were changing.
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(By Jose Maria Ponce ) - In the early nineties I was called by MC Publishing to lead the Spanish version of Hustler , the flagship publication of the maverick Larry Flynt . Despite the charisma of the head, one in Spain was interested in her (male magazine in the eighties flirted with his style). Of the big three - Playboy , Penthouse and Hustler - the latter was by far the most interested me. These pussies open, the fantastic pictures of Clive McLean, Matti Klatt and James Baes and, above all, that air radical, rebellious, politically incorrect alternative and made her irresistible. I accepted without thinking.
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(By Jose Maria Ponce ) - Land to refer to the Alt porn as one of my favorite genres, but I wonder if my readers are aware of its characteristics and peculiarities. Personally I am of the view that, with different labels, alternative porn has always existed. If we go back in the late 60's, at the height of the underground cinema of Jonas Mekas and Andy Warhol , we can find elements of a film halfway between the avant-garde and radical sex. The characters in the films of Warhol, border and promiscuous attitudes contain elements and then recover the Alt porn. Later, Richard Kern and Nick Zedd with its Cinema of Transgression films elevated to cult status of their sexual obsessions and his fierce aesthetic. Elements shared by the alternative porn. In the films of Gregory Dark and Antonio Passolini aesthetic features can also be found that would influence the new trend.
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(By Jose M. Ponce ) - Another porn is out there. Nearly all of us, but far from the concept of repetitive and often tacky commercial porn. It's another thing. It is often mediocre and almost always starving in their results and it is certainly precarious budgets. But it is another porn. His most recognizable label by the name of national postporn and his muses are Maria Llopis and Diana Pornoterrorista. To these two could add to Lucy Egana, Helen Torres, Kinki Klau and Girls Post Op. All of them and some illustrious guests invade Barcelona this weekend with the fourth edition of his shows Sow, festival dates and unstable spaces, but which reaches its peak with this new installment in which, within a coherent and ambitious program, shines the presence of Annie Sprinkle . I go for parts.
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(By Jose Maria Ponce ) - I think there's no better way to start my collaboration with the Porn Stars who announced the impending visit of Annie Sprinkle to Barcelona. It is likely that new generations of porn do not know Annie, wife a thousand times recycled and converted able to successfully cross the barren desert that leads to a prostitute and porn star to cultural centers in the world. There is nothing.
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