Shine Louise Houston: What if Hitchcock, Jarmusch, and Metzger Made Porn Films?
Article on Pink & White Productions director Shine Louise Houston, in SF Weekly as interviewed by Chris Hall.
It’s true that a lot of what comes out of the Internet is just the same old recycled crap; but it’s also permanently queered the way we talk about sex and provided fertile ground for indie pornographers with their own visions. Shine Louise Houston’s Pink and White Productions is one of the most acclaimed examples.
Houston, who appears Wednesday as part of the Good Vibrations Indie Erotic Film Festival, entered the business intending to direct feature films. While she’s done several, the most recent being a dyke boxing film called Champion, her most popular project has been The Crash Pad Series, an ongoing collection of free-form webisodes about a mysterious San Francisco apartment where random people show up to fuck. Pink and White embodies a style that’s becoming more popular in porn: more gender fluidity, and bodies that look more like real people and less like Hollywood plastic surgery disasters. Queerness isn’t a fetish or a freak show element for Houston or her contemporaries, but just a fact of life.
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http://blogs.sfweekly.com/exhibitionist/2011/09/shine_louise_houston.php
