Cinematography
Since starting Thousand Faces, I (Marcus) have wanted to make a dance film. Not the kind with a trite plot in between music video routines, or the kind where performers just dance then fuck. I want to combine different kinds of expressive performance and movement, so mixing dance and sex as seamlessly as possible makes total sense to me. With the help of Yiming’s Bachata dance experience and choreography skills, we took inspiration from each other’s musical & sexual interests, as well as the sex-work traditions of stripping, lap-dance, & chair-dance. We wanted to destroy existing expectation of what a porn film involving dance (or vice-versa) could be, and create something fresh & new.
Director of Photography
The Insecurities Of Dill is short film about hopes, doubts, and crumpets. Dill is being used, and he knows it. After a morning of "passion" Dill's suspicions that the woman he was made for is seeing someone else begin to bear fruit. Battling his insecurities, he decides to deal with them in the only way he knows how; by pondering politely. Who said being the object of someone's desire would be easy?
Director of Photography
Two souls cross paths in an isolated wilderness. Rider, who is suffering from amnesia following a motorcycle crash. And Rose, on the run. They both take shelter in an abandoned cottage, where they start to piece things back together.
Cinematography
When filming James and Nina for ‘Human Time’, there was so much great material both visually and aurally (Nina wrote and performed the beautifully intimate voiceover) that we simply had to make two separate films. Though just as tender and vulnerable as part 1, in part 2, we get even more explicit, with more involved rope-play including full suspension. We have a different sonic vibe with new original music giving a lush, dramatic backdrop of strings & electronics. Nina’s prose-poetry provides a perfect accompaniment to the more developed relationship we see on screen, offering a startlingly detailed and tender insight into their thoughts and feelings surrounding sex, kink, rope, and emotion.
