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freshcum4dollars, 19
Portland

I squirt a lot, quickly and often … so if you fancy some hot and cheap cum in your mouth, then get in touch. Treat yourself – fresh, warm and delicious!

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HoneyMoon – July 12, 2026
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Ethnicity White
Body Hair Average
Smoker Yes
Tattoos Yes
Languages English
Position Top only
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Dirty WS only
Fisting No
S&M No
Kissing No
PNP Yes
Hourly Rate 70$
Overnight Rate 300$

 

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Twink-blah-blah, 19
Basel

Fun and money. No effort.

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Here_I_Am_2026 – July 10, 2026
The most amazing person I’ve ever met.

henrydick1432 – July 7, 2026
I’d have to honestly say that I don’t think that this boy is “wrapped too tight.” I sincerely think he has problems, whether it’s mental, autism, addicton, etc. He’s obviously disturbed. I fucked his little brains out for $175.

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As advertised, lazy, indifferent, monosyllabic, cooperates when you strip him, chuckles when you rim him, winces when you fuck him, whispers “Christ” when he cums.

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Hourly Rate On request
Overnight Rate On request

 

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SplitTongue, 19
Stockholm

Not really sure how to write one of these without sounding like a complete weapon, so I’ll just keep it real.

The sort of person who can walk into a room full of strangers and leave with a shitload of cash by the end of the night.

I don’t do fake personalities, rehearsed lines, or awkward silences. I turn up on time and give the bod.

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DeepTalker – July 8, 2026
I found his hourly rate quite low, too low. That’s why I offered him €450 right away. Per hour, of course, and therefore €890 for two hours. And I left a big tip at the end, too.

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Tattoos No
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Position Versatile
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Fisting Active/Passive
S&M Soft
Kissing Consent
PNP Alcohol, weed
Hourly Rate 100€
Overnight Rate On request

 

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Feistycupcake, 22
Zurich

You’ve seen me in a lot of porns. You’ve seen the effect my ass has on tops of every age and size and temperament. I’ve spent my entire life on my hands and knees with a big dick in my ass. It definitely fucked with my self esteem and had other psychological effects but I have no regrets and it’s brought in an incredible income.

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RuffManCanada – July 13, 2026
Like his videos but POV and with Smellovision.

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We chatted when he arrived today and I told him what I wanted to do to his hole with my 23cm of meat then I fucked him for 4h non stop.

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Too learned.

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I just worked out that in the 5 years I’ve been doing porn and recently escorting, and assuming 4ml per load and the fact that I get bred most days, say 300 days in a year, I’d guess I’ve had over 12 pints of sperm shot in my asshole.

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Dirty Ask
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PNP Yes
Hourly Rate On request
Overnight Rate On request

 

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doomscrollme, 22
Madrid

A body made for sin👅
Have a thing for racists✊
Only for those who want to *** with me 😈

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SmoothOperatorBi – July 11, 2026
Willing to lie to your friends about how you met.

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doomscrollmepls (Owner) – July 6, 2026
I answer within a second of you sending

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He is very serious and extremly good for quick short dates, especially likes to beat up gays. I recommend for those who like this.

Bozlove – July 3, 2026
Best brain fucker 🥵 he drained some thousand euros from me over time.. but what i also liked was the hug at the end, even it was for a few seconds, it means a lot to me 🫶🏽

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Kissing Consent
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Hourly Rate 1000€
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Google-Me, 19
Leuden

My best friend (the blonde guy) is broke and I’m looking for some faces for him to sit on. I can vouch 🤪

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Rocknrolla – July 11, 2026
He stood there rattled and trying to play it cool as I ate, chewed, sucked, tongue fucked his hole all the while his Arab friend sat nearby crying & laughing with joy and excitement.

Noisette – July 9, 2026
Seemed very disconcerted by what a face can do when it’s wedged in an asscrack, but he adjusted.

Body Type Slim
Ethnicity White
Body Hair Little
Smoker Socially
Tattoos No
Languages Dutch, English, German
Position Top only
Dick No answer
Dirty No
Fisting NO
S&M Soft
Kissing No
PNP Depends
Hourly Rate 95€
Overnight Rate 650€

 

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merci_merci, 19
Paris

Submissive 19 for moneyed perverts to use and watch porn. I started very early at 13, very hot lifelong, discreet, shedding taboos since my youth, which means nothing too perverse for a little slut like me, I started slutting very young.

Guestbook of merci_merci

DesTroy – July 8, 2026
This boy is not my type.

merci_merci (Owner) – July 8, 2026
I can’t speak french – I’m here on vacation.

THEBIGZAYED – July 7, 2026
Three friends and I fucked and fisted him over three days. Was slammed up hard with T every few hours. Given bootie bumps of T and K without him knowing they were coming. Did him in a sling, strapped to a bench, dragged around, on a bed, standing and many floor fucks. Quick stops occasionally for Evian hydration and to stick a little food in his mouth. He’s only what he is, but it was an amazing weekend.

merci_merci (Owner) – July 1, 2026
Being someone’s toilet doesn’t scary me, but I have never tried it and I may be just stupid.

Body Type Slim
Ethnicity White
Body Hair Shaved
Smoker Yes
Tattoos No
Languages English, Romanian
Position Bottom only
Dick XS – Uncut
Dirty Yes
Fisting Passive
S&M Yes
Kissing Yes
PNP Yes
Hourly Rate 50€
Overnight Rate 250€

 

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TgAndDrqs, 21
Zurich

lmk if u can provide

Guestbook of TgAndDrqs

——f – July 10, 2026
He is unreliable and hangs out with a pedophile old man from Sibiu, and his circle is full of old gay people. Plus, he is impotent from drug use and makes men watch porn movies with women while they screw him. Guaranteed and with evidence. He has nothing to do with being heterosexual or an “escort.” He offers companionship and will get fucked by old men for drugs. He’s gay. That’s all.

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TgAndDrqs (Owner) – July 6, 2026
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Very hyper, needs T.

Body Type Slim
Ethnicity Mixed
Body Hair Smooth
Smoker Yes
Tattoos No
Languages English, German, Italian
Position More bottom
Dick M – Uncut
Dirty Ask
Fisting Passive
S&M Soft
Kissing Ask
PNP Yes
Hourly Rate 100€
Overnight Rate 200€

 

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Orangejuice, 18
Lincoln

My name is Cameron but sometimes go by nickname Cammy. I live in Lincoln, Nebraska. Young and hetero, I need help passing bad moment. No exp with man. Just here for the 300 I need. I need someone to talk about life. I have no one else to talk to about it. I need support. I can listen about your problems too. But I really need someone. If you want more than that I go and feel humiliated.

Guestbook of Orangejuice

Unicornlover99 – July 10, 2026
Special Event – an intensive week (24/7) with your “Daddy” on the island of Crete (Greece) – you are invited!
When? Only >>> September 14th – 21st, 2026 – You’re invited.
You are of legal age (or have convincing fake ID).
You are slim like in your photo and have problematic mental health!
You get a safe word but can only use it once (choose wisely).
If you are truly excellent, you’ll receive a reward upon departure.

Rggred – July 7, 2026
Cumming does not make you less attached to him, maybe even the opposite.

vincent_wants_a_twink – July 6, 2026
He offers very sloppy, wet and passionate open mouth kissing with lots of drool to drink and uncomfortable eye contact.

Body Type Muscular
Ethnicity White
Body Hair Smooth
Smoker Socially
Tattoos Yes
Languages English
Position Versatile
Dick L – Cut
Dirty Ask
Fisting Ask
S&M Ask
Kissing Yes
PNP Yes
Hourly Rate On request
Overnight Rate On request

 

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cum-hole, 19
Berlin

Who else loves it being a heroin junkie? ❤️ I know its fucked up but i love every second of it 😈 My IQ in single figures, totally trusting … Nothing else matters than being super high 🥰 its my life

Guestbook of cum-hole

QuietChaos – July 12, 2026
Same bullshit all the time. I send you money if you kill yourself. Or whatever you for you don’t exist anymore.

onlywantfems – July 11, 2026
Gotta admit I felt at home with you.

notforyouuu – July 8, 2026
The photos he posts date from when he was still flirting with heroin. His current condition takes some getting used to. Junkie ass is a mixed bag, very low wattage but a real dick ditch. Using it made me very emotional, but my brother died of a heroin overdose, so I probably brought that to the table.

Body Type Slim
Ethnicity White
Body Hair Shaved
Smoker Yes
Tattoos No
Languages German, Latvian, English
Position Bottom only
Dick M – Uncut
Dirty Yes
Fisting Passive
S&M Yes
Kissing Yes
PNP Yes
Hourly Rate 200€
Overnight Rate On request

 

 

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p.s. Hey. ** Adem Berbic, Okay, cool. I think ‘Variety’ is a good entrance into her films, yes. My nephew was just here to chill, it turns out, after a catering gig in Ibiza. A couple of weeks ago his company catered a dinner for the Obamas, so that’s an indication of the level he’s at. We had coffee at the swank hotel where he was staying, and sitting at the table next to us was Zidane, so that was exciting. Bruce is or can be robust. He’s a total delight. I wouldn’t say our new film is lower-key, it’s more simply laid out and should be less expensive to make. In English, yes, if absolutely possible. I missed the marching soldiers, but I certainly heard the big jet flyover. I’m near the aerial path, and it was … I was going to say a harsh noise wall, but it was more power electronics. ** Laura, Thanks for braving everything to step in here. Thanks for the initial ‘RT’ thoughts. Least hopeful? Hm, not sure about that. Four words … wait, about what? Sorry, it’s hot here. The ‘RT’ murder is 100% not queer-phobic. None of the characters have any problem whatsoever with the identities of the other characters. That’s an important aspect of the film. Gosh, keep feeling better and better! ** Carsten, Thanks! That’s the idea. I haven’t been outside yet, but I’m sure there will be a dour mood in the streets today. No rioting though as far as I can tell. Congrats to your dudes, I guess. Personally I’m much more interested in the current pop hits than I am in the Stones reiterating their patented ‘Stones’ thing 50+ years after they had their last daring new idea. I think current popular pop is as interesting as contemporaneous pop hits ever were. I just think I’ve lived through so many generations of new success-seeking pop stylists that I don’t have the belief and love one would need to really parse the songs and identify what’s precisely fresh and exciting about them. But I see that as my problem. But it’s all and only about gravitating to what feeds your own interests and passion, obviously. ** _Black_Acrylic, Hey. That Bret series is directed by the pretty awful Ryan Murphy, so I would try not to get your hopes too high. But, hey, you really never know. France ate it. Oh well. I watched for a while until it was obvious they were going to lose and switched it off. So should I say, ‘Go England?’ ** Steve, It’s so depressing how so many filmmakers who happen to be female of recent decades have ended up with oeuvres that are sporadic and monetarily compromised. It’s really angering. Mohamed Borouissa … no, I don’t think so. It sounds exciting, so I’ll check in with his work, thank you. My nephew is pretty discrete about his client base, even with me. He did let slip that he did a dinner not so long ago where Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner were in attendance. Our heatwave is supposed to start dying on Friday, ‘pray’ to god. ** julian, Hi. Ah, yeah, I think it was 94 here yesterday, but it felt hotter. Commiserating. I wish I’d said no to the ‘Frisk’ film. But that disaster is why there haven’t been films of my other books. I’ve pretty much said no to every offer ever since. There was almost a film of ‘God Jr.’ that could have been really good, as it was going to be made by the really good animators Laika, but it fizzled out. We don’t have Tubi over here, but I’m going to see if I can hunt ‘Whispering Moon’ today. Thank you again. ** horatio, Hi. I’m also kind of famous for my inability to form a poker face. But I just try to hide things in my face and demeanor well enough that what’s going on is at least open to interpretation. Cool, thanks, I’ll go check Instagram. That’s funny, I have this biweekly Zoom club thing where some friends and I read a text and watch a film, and the assigned film this time is ‘Death in Venice’, which I’ve watched more than once. It’s certainly not the book, but I remembering liking how over the top it was? Spendidness in day guise to you! ** HaRpEr //, I don’t know Les Rallizes Dénudés, no. I’ll add them to my experience, thank you. I’m with you on being rather unable to write without being somewhat careful, but writing with semi-abandon can work, it seems. ** laura w, I think olive oil whatever is still a thing here. It’s like the new matcha. Well, not as pervasive. The French are very protectionist about their businesses, which I ultimately really appreciate. They have limits on Amazon to protect bookstores, and on streaming to protect movie theaters. It took forever for them to let Starbucks enter, and now they’re really sorry they did because Starbucks is everywhere. But that hasn’t hurt the cafes, at least, which was the worry. A convert to the little wonders of ‘Johnny Appleseed’, yay. I told my friends that I want that song played at my funeral, but I don’t think they remember. You’re off to the island! Have so much fun, and catch me up on the goings on once time and internet reconnect. Are we mutual followers on Instagram? If not I’ll try to find you and rectify that. Happy wedding proximity! ** kenley, Totally, I am just worn out by this heat. It’s been fucking weeks of it. I feel like something that could be served on a plate. Me, I’ll take cold over this any old day. Awesome that you’re so at home there. Are you planning to make music? I wonder if the stroopwafel makers needed an iron. I guess so, right? Mm, no real shenanigans in Amsterdam. It was pretty sort of low key, strangely. Have a really big one of whatever sort today! ** Bill, I was asleep when France lost. I was not awoken by screaming and gun shots or anything. From what I can vibe this morning, I think everyone’s just droopy and beleaguered. Thank you!!!! Everyone, Bill organised and performed at an event in San Francisco called New Queer Sound/Media. And now there’s evidence of the event available internationally. Join me in luxuriating there with numerous senses. Here. Awesome thank you, Bill! ** Uday, I did detect some possible quibbles with Whitman in your mention, yes. In the art world, the Mudd Club is pretty regularly mentioned and mythologised, but maybe not so much outside that context. But then that was the Mudd Club’s main population. Hugely less people went to the Mudd Club than to Studio 54, which was pretty mainstream. Max’s Kansas City is fairly mythologized, but it was less cool and specific and groundbreaking and physically comfortable than CBGB’s, so I think that’s why? ** Okay. The 15th -> escorts. See you tomorrow.

 

‘A pioneer in the American Independent Film world, Gordon is best known for her bold explorations of themes related to sexuality. Her early short films, most notably Empty Suitcases, won numerous awards and Festival acclaim worldwide, including showings at the Berlin International Film Festival, New York’s Museum of Modern Art and The Whitney Biennial. Variety (1984) marked her debut as a feature film director, particularly in light of the film’s invitational showing at The Cannes Film Festival’s Director’s Fortnight.

‘It’s been four decades since filmmaker Bette Gordon moved to New York from the Midwest and took up residence in a loft on Greenwich Street, Tribeca. It was the early ’80s, and Gordon’s new stomping ground was a relative no man’s land—the perfect canvas for penniless artists with big ideas and the space to realize them. “It was a ghost town,” Gordon recalls. “There were no stores, maybe one restaurant and a couple of very cool bars where cool people hung out.” The Lower Manhattan Ocean Club was one such place. On any given night, you could find now award-winning director and painter Julian Schnabel in the kitchen cooking up whatever seafood delights were on offer for the likes of Patti Smith, David Byrne, Rene Ricard, Basquiat—basically anybody breaking new ground in the downtown art scene. “There was also Magoos, where artists would trade work for tab,” Gordon adds, “and the Mudd Club where we went rather than Studio 54, which was over by that time.” Gordon herself worked at a place called the Collective for Living Cinema, an outpost for avant-garde film, which at the time operated out of a high-ceilinged loft on White Street in Tribeca.

‘As Gordon recalls, it was a time of creative camaraderie where those wanting to make some noise, whether through art, music, film, or whatever it was that got them plugged in and inspired, found other like-minded artists rallied to the cause. “It was easy to meet people. It wasn’t driven by market, it was driven by people’s creative inspiration to make film and art for each other,” she explains.

‘While Gordon began her filmmaking career as a structuralist, she soon became involved with issues that joined film and feminism. In the midst of the scorched earth theories that all but prohibited images of women on the screen lest they provide voyeuristic satisfaction for “the male gaze,” she insisted on training her camera on women, often unclothed. An Algorithm, an optically printed film edited from several truncated shots of a woman diving off a board but never breaking the surface of the water, contains the germ of much of her later work. Gordon realized that the problem of the objectification of women in film has less to do with the display of the body than with who has control of the narrative—of the desire that motors it and of how that desire is resolved, or left as an opening into the unknown. She also understood, psychologically and pragmatically, that for a woman to become a filmmaker or to simply enjoy movies, she had to take pleasure in her own voyeurism.

‘Nevertheless, the pressures of the feminist discourse were such that Gordon would have to make several confused efforts at being a “good girl” filmmaker before she could cut loose in her barely disguised autobiography, Variety, the saga of how a nice young woman from the Midwest comes to New York, goes to work as a ticket taker in a porn theater (it’s the end of the 1970s recession), and discovers that she wants to take charge of and act on her fantasies however she pleases. Variety isn’t a perfect movie, but it is one of the most powerful descriptions of the female psyche committed to film by a director who knows how ravishing films can be.

‘“For better or worse, I tend to be drawn to things that are maybe not easy to make, but you can’t really forget them,” she says. “I think all of my films are kind of haunting in some way, and if you can’t get them out of your head it means that I couldn’t get them out of my head either.”‘ — collaged

 

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Stills

 

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Further

Bette Gordon Films
Bette Gordon @ IMDb
Bette Gordon @ The Film-makers Cooperative
UP LATE WITH FILMMAKER BETTE GORDON
Bette Gordon by Evangeline Morphos
THROWBACK MOVIE REVIEW: VARIETY (1983)
Bette Gordon Films from Anthology Film Archives
Bette Gordon on Vimeo
Bette Gordon on dealing with the realities of filmmaking
August 2010, Interview with Bette Gordon
Bette Gordon @ letterboxd
Bette Gordon’s ‘Variety’ 35 Years On
Antti Alanen: Film Diary: Variety (Bette Gordon 1983)
Bette Gordon @ instagram
Bette Gordon @ MUBI
Bette Gordon’s re-control of the cinematic narrative
Anybody’s Woman — Bette Gordon
Amy Taubin on Bette Gordon
Bette Gordon Talks Recognizing the Evil Within Ourselves

 

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Extras

A Message from Filmmaker Bette Gordon

AFS Presents: No Cover – Films By Bette Gordon

Entrevista – Bette Gordon

 

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Interview

 

If the diverse coterie of artists involved in your first feature, Variety, is anything to go by, the creative community was very interconnected at the time. To what do you attribute the collaborative spirit in New York back then?

Bette Gordon: There was nothing like the early ’80s… It was a very interesting time in the evolution of culture and the world of business and the support that you could get—people doing things for no money. There were these enclaves of do-it-yourself bands—you didn’t even have to play an instrument professionally. There was this kind of rediscovering what it meant to look at art—art as non-object, art as concept, minimal art. People were redefining the parameters, so it was a very exciting time. And in the film world, somebody would have a film that they shot on Super 8, so they’d lug a projector to Tier 3, which was [a no wave art nightclub] on West Broadway. You’d have little posters that you’d make by hand, and at 9 o’clock the poster would go up. I had a big loft and a projector and I’d invite people over to see whatever anyone wanted to show. It was very small, and only because of word of mouth and little posters that you’d Xerox and walk around town and put up—they’d get torn down and you’d put them up again—that you knew what was happening, the old-fashioned way.

What was it that fueled your passion for filmmaking? Are you driven by the same motivations today?

BG: I was always drawn to stories with characters who pushed boundaries, limits, maybe even morality. I was interested in doing anything but being safe. Safe for me was the world I grew up in, and all I wanted was to break those boundaries because I knew that there was a more complex world than the one I was given as a model. [This becomes apparent] when you see John Luc Godard for the first time or when you see Cassavetes or when your world is opened up by work or writing or literature that doesn’t fit in this simplistic box of the assigned role that you are given.

We want to keep making the films we want to make and the stories that we want to tell, and make people think about things that they would not normally think about. Film is a language of the future and I think we need to be conscious of what we’re saying and how we’re saying it.

You continue to live and make films in New York. What is it about the city that appeals to you, creatively speaking?

BG: Around every corner, there is an amazing location. You can explore and find new ways of seeing this place we live in, you just never tire of it. We shot my last film, The Drowning, in City Island—it was fascinating. Staten Island I always find amazing. Yonkers is a whole new film community, and even outside of New York City in Jersey City…I feel inspired by New York, I also like a 24-hour environment where people don’t go to sleep. I have a very weird body clock—it’s probably from my club days because nothing ever started in the ’80s until 11pm and it went at least until 4, and then there was after-hours. So even today, I find that I do my best work around 11. For me, bedtime is never before 2am.

How is it making an independent film now, when independent film has become part of the establishment?

BG: The world has become so savvy. When I first began, there was a Wild West mentality. You just grabbed people from your circle, and if you were an artist, your circle was pretty interesting. Musicians and writers would participate in a freeform way without contracts. We didn’t even know what agents and managers were. Variety’s budget was about $100,000. Working together was organic to the way in which we lived. Now, making an independent film is about getting actors to sign on.

You seem connected to the art world, visually. And you have a sensitivity to what sound is.

BG: My background was as a visual artist, which gave me references that I wish more of my students had. Those who don’t have a visual arts background struggle to translate action and dialogue from the page to the screen. I was lucky not only to travel in circles of very talented people, but ones that were not legislated by a school.

What’s next, what ideas are brewing?

BG: I’ve always wanted to do an adaptation of Paper Moon, a father-daughter story, since I’ve done a mother-son. What I really hate is when reviewers say, “She hasn’t made a film in ten years!” I guess there are people who are able to make a film in a shorter amount of time, but by the time you have an idea and allow it to sit around in your mind and then write it and raise the money, it’s ten years later. But really, it’s the psychological realm that is fascinating to me. The digging deep. I think it comes from the idea of smashing the mirror we talked about earlier. I’m interested in stories where what is is not what is. I’ve thought about making a lighter story.

 

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12 of Bette Gordon’s 16 films

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w/ James Benning I-94 (1974)
‘I-94 explores the male and female sexual identities through two people that never appear onscreen together. It exemplifies Bette Gordon’s willingness to tackle topics like eroticism through the female gaze. While the short is only three minutes long, the intimacy captured of the two characters speaks volumes. As one of Gordon’s experimental collaborations with avant garde filmmaker James Benning. I-94 gives viewers a rare dual perspective of the male gaze and the incisive reversal of it, with an uncompromising study into masculinity.’ — fffest

the entirety

 

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w/ James Benning The United States of America (1975)
‘The United States of America was filmed with a fixed camera, but one that had a fixed lens. The camera was mounted in the backseat area of a car. Its position—and thus the framing of the images it records—never changes. We see a bit of the backseat area; the backs of the front seats and backs of the heads of the filmmakers who are seated in front (mostly Benning drives, but occasionally he and Gordon exchange places); the front windshield with the rearview mirror fixed in the middle at the top; and a bit of the side windows, left and right. The movement in the film is created almost entirely by the movement of the car as it is driven by the filmmakers from the East Coast to the West, with some north-south driving in the middle of the country. The United States of America has a runtime of twenty-seven minutes, but it’s not possible to determine how long the actual trip took or if the film was edited from footage taken during one trip or several. Our attention, like the attention of the filmmakers/“actors,” is on the passing landscape as it can be seen through the windshield. The film is shot from what in Hollywood is described, cheatingly, as an over-the-shoulder POV, but here, since the camera is midway between the left shoulder of one person and the right shoulder of the other, the shot is an amalgam of two supposed POVs, i.e., a double cheat. There is no dialogue. The sound track is largely derived from the car’s radio—a mix of music and local newscasts, one of which allows us to fix the period as that of the US’s chaotic withdrawal from Saigon in the closing days of the Vietnam war. The United States of America is pure road movie, absent of character goals or desire, but attentive to the movement of history and fixity of geography.’ — Amy Taubin

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An Algorithm (1977)
‘A visually stunning kinetic rhythm produced by looped footage (mathematical curves) in and out of phase with each other.’ — letterboxd

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Empty Suitcases (1980)
‘… is a narrative derived from film’s own material and my concern for exploring issues of representation and identification in cinema. The film presents fragments of a woman’s life–her work (as a photographer), her friendship and relationships–in short, her economic, sexual,and artistic struggles. By deconstructing the fragments of text, speech, music and picture, the film forces focus on the workings of narrative, as well as on the narrative itself. Central to EMPTY SUITCASES is women’s inability to place and define themselfs in laguage and politics, the location of radical struggle. This displacement leads to a definition of woman as other, and reveals problems of unresolved sexual relations, difference, and violence,–B. G. Her most successful sequences–a militant ‘new wave’ fashion show in which models photograph themselves, an expressionless white woman lipsynching alog to Billie Holliday, a scene where the filmmaker relates a dream only to be drowned out by Talking Heads singing ‘PSycho Killer’–all criticize conventional modes of representation, with particular attention to what current academic jargon calls ‘the imaging of woman.” — J. Hoberman

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Anybody’s Woman (1981)
‘One day in the early 1980s I was wandering around the East Village and I came across the neon lights of the old Variety theater on 3rd Avenue at 13th Street. It was the most delicious theater I had ever encountered. I was drawn in by the glowing sign. As I walked inside I discovered that it was a porn theater and I came up with the idea for this film. I invited my friends Spalding Gray and Nancy Reilly, both members of the Wooster Group, to talk about pornography on-camera. I shot it on Super 8 and spliced it together myself. On the soundtrack, I used the music of Bush Tetras and Marianne Faithfull. ANYBODY’S WOMAN was made for a show at Artist’s Space in 1981 called Emergency. Thirteen filmmakers were given $75 and told to make a film that would be shown a month later; all the films were to address what we saw as an emergency in the arts’ community after right-wing Senator Jesse Helms had slashed funding for the National Endowment for the Arts. This short film was ultimately the precursor to my first feature film VARIETY.’ — Bette Gordon

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Variety (1983)
‘The sexually charged tale of a woman’s journey of self-discovery, Bette Gordon’s Variety is a fascinating independent film that challenges common notions about feminism and pornography. Emerging out of the underground NYC arts scene that produced the late ’80s boom in American independent cinema, Variety contains the contributions of an impresive array of talent, including cinematographer Tom DiCillo (Living in Oblivion), actor Luis Guzman (Boogie Nights), a script by the late cult novelist Kathy Acker, and a score by actor and musician John Lurie (Stranger Than Paradise, Down By Law). Renowned photographer Nan Goldin appears in a supporting role, as does Mark Boone Junior (Sons of Anarchy, Memento)

‘Christine (Sandy McLeod), a bright and unassuming young woman, takes a job selling tickets at a porno theater near Times Square. Instead of distancing herself from the dark and erotic nature of this milieu, Christine soon develops an obsession that begins to consume her life. The character’s reaction unexpectedly flips normal gender roles; director Gordon daringly twists feminist ideology by showing a woman who finds self-expression through an interest in pornography. Variety becomes even more provocative when it dramatizes the changes that occur in Christine’s relationships with both Mark (Will Patton), her boyfriend, and Louie, a dangerous-looking patron of the theater.

‘Few films deal honestly with a female’s sexual point-of-view, and particularly with the way in which she develops her own fantasy world. Controversial and highly personal, Variety does just that, and in so doing announces itself as the major film of a director who embodies the essence of independent cinema.’ — Kino Lorber

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Bette Gordon visits the BFI Southbank to talk about Variety

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w/ Chantal Akerman, Ulrike Ottinger, Valie Export, Maxi Cohen, Laurence Gavron and Helke Sander SEVEN WOMEN SEVEN SINS (1987)
‘As wide-ranging an omnibus film as there has ever been, a group of some of the most important international filmmakers of the last few decades – all of them female – take on each of the biblical vices. Bette Gordon, Chantal Akerman, VALIE EXPORT, Maxi Cohen, Laurence Gavron and more contribute a contemporary celluloid sin. The result is a thoroughly unpredictable introduction to each filmmaker’s work; encapsulating devious narratives and experimental collages, film and video.’ — Metrograph

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Monsters (Desirable Alien) (1991)
‘Bette Gordon directed episode of the TV series Monsters. Luis Guzman plays a supporting role in a semi-comedic episode about a satyr trying to apply for U.S. citizenship – and ultimately coming at the problem from a different angle. There’s a walk-on part for Videodrome’s Debbie Harry, too, as well as a little nudity, in the form of paintings and frescoes.’ — Through the Shattered Lens

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Luminous Motion (1998)
‘LUMINOUS MOTION is a dreamlike and erotically charged thriller from critically acclaimed director Bette Gordon (Variety). Deborah Kara Unger (The Game) stars as an unnamed hustler who seduces and robs gullible men while criss-crossing the country with her ten-year-old son Phillip (Eric Lloyd, The Santa Clause). Phillip grows accustomed to this outlaw life on the road, but his world is turned upside-down when his mother settles in the suburbs with a carpenter named Pedro (Terry Kinney). Desperate to reclaim his mom’s attentions, Phillip plots Pedro’s violent end, hoping for a return to the road. But this Oedipal dream turns into a nightmare as they are pursued by ghosts from their past, including Phillip’s menacing father (Jamey Sheridan, Spotlight), who seems to be intent on reclaiming his place at the head of this deteriorating family.’ — Kino Lorber

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Jill Sobule Flight (jet plane charm) (1999)

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Handsome Harry (2009)
‘As in the films that precede it, the mysteries—and terrors—of desire also propel Handsome Harry, which reunites Gordon with Luminous Motion‘s Jamey Sheridan, here in the title role. A road movie ensemble piece interrupted by flashbacks, HH finds its hero reconciling with the unpalatable notion that, to paraphrase Oscar Wilde, each man maims the thing he loves. Harry, a well-liked, long-divorced middle-ager, capable of only the most awkward interactions with the waitress who clearly wants him and the son who’s driven hundreds of miles to visit him in upstate New York, takes off suddenly for Philadelphia to visit Tom (Steve Buscemi), a dying Navy buddy. “We became men together,” Tom reminisces in his hospital bed—rites of passage that torment Harry, who continues to seek out friends from the service to assuage his guilt over a heinous act of betrayal and cruelty. Each visit serves as a set piece for the pathologies of white midlife manhood: entitlement, repression, rage, self-pity. Gordon films every encounter—some of which droop under too much hectoring (the script is by first-timer Nicholas T. Proferes)—with a hesitant empathy, maintaining just the right tone before Harry’s lushly romantic final reunion. In Gordon’s films, Eros’s capacity to disturb and disrupt is celebrated as its greatest quality.’ — Melissa Anderson

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The Drowning (2016)
‘The movie is a prime specimen of “the paranoid style.” You feel it in the fractured visual palette, in the piecemeal depiction of Tom’s house and the quietly unnerving wind through the curtains. Tom’s home life was already destabilized. He wants Lauren to remain in New London, but her center of gravity is shifting to New York City, where her reputation as a painter is growing. Danny, with his sixth sense, puts his fingers in that fissure. The end of the movie is absurd — but sometimes a good capper is. There’s something awesome about a cathartic action that leads not to relief but more horror. In Bette Gordon’s universe, that’s the fundamental tragedy of being a man.’ — Vulture

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p.s. Hey. ** Dominik, Hi!!! Yeah, it wasn’t bad. The sweetness without the theatrics. Still no elevator. Grr. Might need to be a tenant rebellion. Except a lot of our tenants have escaped the heat and are who knows where. Whine. Love enlarging and framing a photo of himself and telling everyone it’s a mirror, G. ** Adem Berbic, Lucidity is editing’s metier surely. I guess I ultimately prefer harsh nouse wall to power electronics, so good report. Closet Doctrine, gotcha. I am curious to hear. Uh, I’m seeing my visiting nephew today. He’s in town briefly because he’s one of some people who run this super high end catering service that serves meals to the ultra-rich and often very famous. So I’m curious to know who flew him and his cohorts all the way from LA for one day. Vegan Thai food tonight with Bruce Hainley. Start hunting possible new film producers since the script is finally finished. Art, I guess. Today is supposedly the last mega-hot day, but we’ll see. Beach, nice. Happy Bastille Day if you celebrate. ** Carsten, Haven’t heard the new Stones, but that ‘return to form’ label is almost always giddy and preemptive. I guess the hope is sweet. There’s plenty of interesting work going on in popular music. It’s just somewhat obscure and unknown to the proclaimers like interesting work usually is. The big World Cup match is tonight on Bastille Day? That’s strange. It’s going to be nuts here. ** ⋆˚꩜｡darbbzz⋆˚꩜｡, Hi! I don’t think I know that Polish ARG project? Sounds pretty. Luca Guadagnino’s films are like perfume commercials, as a friend of mine said. I feel 100% positive that his Burroughs film is shit. That seems like a thoughtless money and attention grab move on the part of whoever runs the Burroughs estate. I can’t imagine ever seeing it. I have to drink two cups of coffee and do the p.s. and usually take a shower and drink more coffee to clear my mind before I can start writing. I know a few people who are passionate Christians that are cool and smart people anyway. Not too many, for sure, but a few. The only news in my writing world is that we finally finished the film script. So now I have to try to get my head back into writing fiction again, and I’m so not in that mindset. ** _Black_Acrylic, He’s only anonymous because I couldn’t find an attribution. My fault entirely maybe. Okay, Friday. This time it has to happen. Upside down horseshoe if you need it. ** Bill, Hi. Yeah, ‘In the Mouth of Madness’ was the first thing I thought of when I saw Sam O’Neill died. He had a nice quality. And ‘Possession’ too, of course. Maybe you should (re)watch ‘Home Alone 2’. This heatwave at least hasn’t been as murderous as the one two weeks ago. Yet. ** julian, Lucky you. Paris had very mild summers for the most part until this year. Yeah, I think that for whatever reason there was less deliberate musical influence on ‘Frisk’. Maybe I even did that on purpose, I can’t remember exactly. ‘Whispering Moon’ … no, I don’t think I know it. Unless I know it by its German name? Sound very intriguing. I’ll go look for it. Thanks a lot. Stay temperate. ** charalampos, Glad to have helped occasion your discovery, although horatio is the true fount. Mm, no books purchased (some gifts of books), and no parks. Just events and looking around. Had a great pizza. Hey from the wrongly hot place. Although I guess you’re probably quite hot there too, but that’s natural in your case. ** horatio, Oh, sure, that album is an overlooked biggie. That’s intense, what you’re experiencing with the guy. I can feel it. I can get really obsessive too, and it took me a long time to get that organised and as privatised as possible. Because, in my experience at least, people who are the subject of that much interest and feeling don’t know what to do with it, and it’s best if you can keep that internal roiling secreted away behind your face as much as you can. Although there are people who respond to that and even need that. I don’t know. Hang in there and try to let him be as autonomous as you can, at least in your behavior or whatever. And for sure make art about this, both because what you’re feeling is the best inspiration there is, or can be, and because making the art can help you position him in your life in a ‘healthy’ way. Sorry, I’m just thinking out loud. I’m really happy this is happening for you. Sure, send me his Instagram. Great day to you. xoxo. ** politekid, Hey, O! Your book still hasn’t arrived. I’m so impatient. The French mail service is a disaster, and I’m just ‘praying’ your book’s delivery transcends that. Seeing ‘Einstein on the Beach’ in the early 80s totally changed my life or at least my art. Totally. So sorry about the tricky mental period. If you can drink coffee surely you’re in recovery. Nice about the reading/event. You and Hesse K, superstars. I was in one of Kevin’s plays, or maybe two plays, playing Paul McCartney if my memory serves. Writing such things is probably a step too far for my talent, true, but ‘acting’ so randomly and in such an under-rehearsed way was … exciting? Well, fun. I’m okay. Like I said above, we finished the new film script, so that’s big. So now it’s the shit part of figuring out how we’re going to make it. That’s probably my immediate future until Zac and I go to Stavanger, Norway in August to show ‘RT’ and hopefully hit some theme parks. What’s your impending narrative? ** Steeqhen, I love folk music which is why I don’t like James Taylor, haha. Here today is supposed to be the last heat blast at a high level for a while. It hasn’t been as horrible as it was two weeks ago, but it’s still surreal in a bad way. ** HaRpEr //, I sometimes think everything I like in film, music, art, literature, etc. is ultimately about physical space. I certainly think heavily about that when I write. I don’t know of ‘The Tracey Fragments’. Huh, interesting. I’ll find it. Thanks, pal. ** laura w, At the ice cream parlor I had one scoop of olive oil ice cream and one scoop of vanilla. My friend had fig which he highly recommended. There’s no soft serve ice cream in Paris! Or not actual, real soft serve a la Tastee Freeze, etc. It’s a big problem. The French can be too snooty about things being classy. Like Paris has one Chipotle, but they would never allow a Taco Bell here. I guess the powers that be think that soft serve ice cream is too low end. They’re so wrong. Anyway, I’m greatly missing Tastee Freeze right now. ‘Watch Me Jumpstart’! Do you know ‘Johnny Appleseed’? Talk abut lo-fi. Paris is less smoker friendly than it used to be, but it’s more user friendly than almost anywhere else, I suspect. How is/was today? ** Uday, 45 degrees?! And that’s not the worst? I am so happy I’m not you at this very moment. Do you like Walt Whitman? His poetry makes my skin crawl. He’s such a blowhard. But I guess he was good at blowhard-ery, and I guess blowhard-ery is legit. The public has spoken. ** Right. Today my suggestion is that you investigate the work of the filmmaker Bette Gordon. You game? See you tomorrow either way.