"I'm very angry to see how women continue to be sexually repressed, still nowadays," says Olympe, whose real name is Barbara. "It's about telling their visions, their experiences, their sensations, their fantasies, and their adventures," says Lust.įor Olympe de G, a 33-year-old Parisian filmmaker who directed a film for Lust last year, making porn authorizes her own-and other women's-sexual desires, pulsions and needs. Last October, XConfessions, a members-only site run by Lust, announced it would fund 10 female filmmakers with a €250,000 grant, allowing them to create alternative, independent films about female sexuality-a revolt against the male-centric content offered on sites like PornHub, one of the top 50 websites in the U.S. "These women want to make films where the woman's pleasure is important they want to show diversity in casting, and they want to work for an ethical production process." Now on a crusade to shake up the pornography industry for good, Lust is in the process of gathering a global community of female adult filmmakers who are more concerned with cinematic value than gratuitous sex scenes-and who are interested in one simple idea: films driven by a female character. 'Come Fly with Me' directed by Erika Lust, starring Carolina Abril as the as a 'badass' female pilot and Luke Hotrod as the 'nervous' passenger "Ugly", "tacky", and "horrible" are just some of the adjectives she ascribes to the genre, which has long been a vehicle for, as Lust puts it, the gaze of narrow-minded men. Lust, who debuted her first adult indie short film, The Good Girl, in 2004 while studying political sciences, feminism and gender studies, considers mass-produced porn to be boring at best, misogynistic at worst. They might have different hair colors, but more or less it's the same kind of women, over and over again." "They cast the same kind of very young women with very slim bodies and large breasts. You know the ones, they love their cars and their drinks." This, says Barcelona-based director Erika Lust, is who is behind the majority of today's mainstream porn. "It's heterosexual, middle-aged white men who have these fantasies with boobs and ass. A new wave of female filmmakers has set out to transform chauvinistic mainstream porn into stylish cinematic masterpieces that revolve around one simple idea: the pleasure of women.
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