March 28, 2005
Desperately Seeking Seka
SOURCE: www.adultfyi.com--Gene Ross
Porn Valley- With certain exceptions, the porn documentary has been this ongoing kiss of death proposition. I know because I used to see the whole dead man walking vibe in play. The porn documentary was porn's black hole of Calcutta. Bore me to death projects came, bore me to death projects went, few were actually ever seen, and a lack of interest pretty much took care of the rest. Every time I'd turn around there was a new documentary being shot, or being hyped, or being pitched.
Why most of these attempted looks at porn failed or just got lost in the shuffle are probably stories you could, well, devote a website to. But there are also the exceptions as well. Like the Johnny Wadd documentary about John Holmes- a highly controversial subject made legendary by Holmes' ambiguous pulp fiction lifestyle. It's really good stuff, and it didn't hurt to have solid writing and a colorful cast of characters assembled together to spin gripping post mortem Holmes yarns and anecdotes, either.
Whereas the marvelous Holmes documentary assesses the man, Inside Deep Throat, www.xxxdeepthroat.com, the newest docu on the block, looks at an era in an attempt to assess how a mob-financed movie about cocksucking manages to become the most summoned motif for a generation devoted to thumbing your nose at authority. Let me guess. Lavish cocksucking, Sammy Davis Jr., Nixon and the mob being the operative words here.
And then you have Desperately Seeking Seka, far less lavish in scope than either Wadd or Inside Deep Throat, but pretty good, just the same, at rinsing the washcloth of nostalgia. Hey, and the subject is still alive which is a pretty good plus, though I can't say the same for some of the other participants involved in this venture.
Desperately Seeking Seka, which is being released this week from The Disinformation Company, is really Seka finally coming to grips with being interviewed. Seka, over the years, at least from some of the fireside chats I heard in the past, never seemed to get the hang of smooth.
Posted by MK Magazine at March 28, 2005 06:35 PM