A couple of years a go I braved the Melbourne Underground Film Festival. I didn't know much about it, and thus viewed it as an adventure into the unknown. 'Adventure' it was....
That year, the theme was B-grade vampire movies of the seventies. It may have been a bigger theme, but that is how it was implanted on my memory. Weird, badly acted, no story, overlong films about people with tomato sauce and candy vampire teeth.
Memorable!
This year, some mates and I went to see Damon and Hunter: Doing it Together. Significantly more interesting than the vampire experience, if only because it interspersed their frank discussion about how they met and fell in love, with explicit shots of them fucking. Definitely arousing in the trousers, but definitely not the film to take my lesbian mate to!!!
Here is the synopsis:
DAMON AND HUNTER: DOING IT TOGETHER
Dir. Tony Comstock | 2006 | USA | 46 mins | Documentary
“Damon and Hunter” is a frank, humane and erotic exploration of the sexual and emotional relationship between longtime lovers Damon Demarco and Hunter James. The film offers a candid look at the central role that sex plays in the relationship between these two men. Forget Brokeback Mountain, if you want gay sex, check this out. Screens with PORNSTAR PETS. Q & A with filmmakers.
Oh, the horny delight of the underground .... I suspect the censor in Australia would have said NO. I said YES......
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7 comments:
You'd be better off taking a straight female friend to watch male/male action. The action looks hot, but wouldn't it be a bit vouyeristic?
Oh, absolutely voyeuristic.....
...is that wrong??? :D
Well, I like to watch...
LOL
Well get yourself comfortable, I'll pour you a guiness, and turn the DVD on.....
I have this film and it is wonderful. Are there any more like that?
There are a couple of other (straight) films listed on the Comstock website.
They have previews included.
I've got some good news and some bad news about DAMON AND HUNTER:
The good news is that the film was name Best Documentary at M.U.F.F., and the day after the Glitch screening, we were invited to show the film at QueerDOC in Sydney this September. QueerDOC has it booked for two screenings.
The bad news is the OFLC has rejected QueerDOC's request for an exemption to show the film. Earlier this year, and despite the fact that 9 SONGS, a fictional film feature similarly explicit depictions of straight sex received an R-rating DAMON AND HUNTER was given a X-rating by the OFLC.
What will happen now, I don't know. The festival has already distributed nearly 50,000 copies of the program, including two screenings of DAMON AND HUNTER (which the festival expected would sell out). We've already printed up hundreds of posters and flyers and made arrangements to have them distributed throughout Sydney. The festival is currently in negotiations with the OFLC to see if they can show DAMON AND HUNTER in some sort of edited form, and we're trying to make an appeal of the ratings. But without the major distributor backing of a film like 9 SONGS I'm doubtful our appeal will be successful. If I were a betting man, I'd bet that Sydney is not going to get the chance to see the film that Melbourne enjoyed so very much. :-(
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