True to form – and perhaps even truer to non-binary lead performer Neen Sever – the third installment of HardWerk’s hybrid gang bang/interview series Ask Me is more than an invitation, it’s a provocation: ask me, challenge me, expose me, make me. For the filmmakers, collaborating with Neen revealed new possibilities for the format, the result a ‘gonzo-meets-psychotherapy’ exploration of identity and interest, where verbal communication is paralleled in visceral expression during a vividly intense industrial gang bang. As the cameras are turned on Neen, first under a leaden Berlin sky and later in the radiance of hot lights, flushed skin, burning handprints and undivided desire, the film finds its playground in the intersection between intellect and instinct, between the psyche and the physical, between ego and alter.
Charlie
There's something about being on holiday that amps up your libido. Feeling free, relaxed and in a new space can bring out your adventurous side. Isn't it time you got away?
Suz
A mysterious invitation gives Emmy the chance to live out her fantasies. In The Game you can be anyone you want, with whoever you want but where does real life end and The Game begin?
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Featuring six explicit short films by Erika Lust and guest directors shot around the world from an all femme superhero threesome, to a very hot ode to non-penetrative sex, plus two intimate sex documentaries self-shot by performers at home during lockdown. Included: Superfemmes; Rituals; An Intimate Portrait of Kail Sudhra; Skin is Skin; Can You See Me?; Sex & Love in the Love of Quarantine.
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Every story in this digital download is inspired by a confession submitted to Erika Lust's site XConfessions.com, where anonymous members of the public submit their wildest and most personal sexual fantasies. Included: Analóxica; Coffee With Pleasure; Dirty Laundry; The Riding Lesson; Tease Cake; Music In Me.
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.
