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kink | Director Christina Voros
[PREMIERE SCREENING: Saturday, Jan. 19, 11:59pm — Egyptian Theatre, Park City] “ The art of losing isn’t hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster” – Elizabeth Bishop The word “sacrifice” bears with it an inherent quality of loss. And the word “loss” carries an inherent quality of cost, or of damage. But sometimes we are lucky enough to lose things that we were better off without. In my case, with this film, that loss was fear. My first exposure to pornography was playing hide and seek […]
by Filmmaker Staff on Jan 18, 2013 -
KINK IN THE MAINSTREAM
One of the problems independent filmmakers have faced in the last decade has been the studio’s co-option of the specialty film genre. Acquistions have dropped as the mini-majors have set out to make, with bigger budgets, better production values, and real stars, the kinds of quirky character-based stories that in the ’80s and ’90s were largely the province of independent filmmakers. A particularly cruel example of this trend was driven home by a press release, excerpted below, I received from CineKink, an organization devoted to “the recognition and encouragement of kink-positive depictions in film and television.” In order, I guess, […]
by Scott Macaulay on Nov 5, 2004
