The mass-production mentality of the adult industry draws producers into its ‘more, faster!’ mindset and mode of production. This often sacrifices both the quality of the product and the experience of its creation. Our response to this is to slow down. This gives us the time and presence to pay attention to those details that the mainstream so often misses; the quality of a breath, the words in a whisper. It gives our contributors the time to make choices about their representation, and also to take their time, to indulge themselves, to respond to the process of being documented. We are holding ourselves to the standards of other ‘slow’ movements and focussing on the wider impact of our work on our contributors, our audience, and ourselves. We value sustainability of energies and ethics in what we create. In so doing, we hope to generate change in the way that erotic imagery is experienced.

We are interested in creating ‘porn that does more than one thing’. We believe that as a form of cultural production with such an expansive reach, erotic media have great potential to reflect and question our values, to educate us, to speak truths personal and political, and to expand our capacity for emotion – including but absolutely not limited to desire.

We turn to both form and content to uphold this ethic.  Our films frequently blend genre and defy easy classification.  Many are not ‘explicit’ in the traditional sense of the word, yet they reveal more about human desire and vulnerability than many more categorically ‘XXX’ films can endeavour to.  They also allow our audiences to look beyond mainstream pornographic tropes for the eroticism of an experience.

Our work is what we call ‘process-based’, meaning that we prioritize process over product.  Inevitably, though, we have found that process to be reflected in the product, and that time and care spent on the former advances the quality of the latter.  We are also performer-driven, more often than not following the performer’s initiative in the creation of a film’s content.  This cultivates collaboration, and as a result (and where relevant) our cast are often also credited as co-directors or co-producers in our films.

Ultimately we have chosen to reject the imperatives of commercial porn production to follow formulas or nestle into niches.  This of course presents challenges to our ability to distrubute our work, which for us indicates the need for change in the ways in which erotic media are consumed.  As we continue to work toward this change, we welcome your support.