5/7/12

Sex, Deeper Than Pleasure

This little quote, indirectly, speaks to Estelle's understanding of what good sex with Ramon means to her:
Adults understand that good sex, with or without contraception, goes deeper than pleasure. It is complex and demanding. And pleasure isn’t necessarily a part of it. Any human encounter requiring honesty and surrender has the potential for both revelation and pain. The communication, healing, and strengthening that good sex ensures is foundational to a marriage. - Jo McGowan

4/3/12

The Sex Machine is Ending With... Ska Cubano

The polls are closed and most people chose to end The Sex Machine with Ska Cubano "No Me Desesperes."  Now granted, it was hard to make that determination without seeing the movie but the good news is that a final cut has a good chance of being done by the end of the week. So you will get a chance to see how it fits the short once we start test screenings.
And I think you'll be pleasantly surprised.


Stay tuned for the trailer coming soon.

3/28/12

The Poetry in These Publicity Stills

Reading through Vera Pavlova's book of poetry, If There Is Something To Desire, I couldn't help but notice that we have the perfect visual compliment to her poems right here in the pictures of our short.  More synergy.
VI
Within a hand's reach from the foreskin
is fleshlessness, dense, resonant, boundless.
Touching, because of its nature, takes part
in the mystery of disembodiment.
I am rid of the body, but the shiver stays,
and so do the pain, the joy.
The shiver, the pain, the joy have no fear
that the skin might never reappear.


A beast in winter,
a plant in spring,
an insect in summer,
a bird in autumn.
The rest of the time I am a woman.

Do you know what you lacked?
That dose of contempt without which
you cannot flip a woman on her back
to make her flounder like a turtle,
to make the heartless fool realize:
she cannot flip back on her own.

I feel
your flesh so full
in me,
that I do not feel it
at all
on top of me.
Is all of you
within me,
a thing-in-me?
Or is all of you
outside of me,
and only seems to be?

Why is the word yes so brief?
It should be
the longest,
the hardest,
so that you could not decide in an instant to say it,
so that upon reflection you could stop
in the middle of saying it.

3/26/12

Explore Body, Bring Self to Orgasm

Joan Semmel, Crossed Legs, 2011

In Feb. 2012, while we were filming The Sex Machine, Women's Health magazine published this article. Synergy?!?