1/4/2023 0 Comments Erotic films![]() I think this has always been reflected in the way we have produced our erotic or sex cinema here.” ![]() “The British as a nation were culturally, perhaps, more inclined to laugh at sex, or mock it, or make a smutty innuendo, rather than address it head-on. “In Britain, we have always been slightly ashamed of our sexual impulses,” says BFI curator Vic Pratt, who organised the film collection. Divergent in style and fetish but tame in imagery (at least by later hardcore standards), the collection provides a fascinating history of Britain cinema’s evolving and often transgressive relationship with the body. Their duration spans from the late 19th century to the advent of home video, often seen as signalling the death of the softcore genre. The BFI’s new collection, The Pleasure Principle, the most recent addition to its massive Britain on Film online initiative, has digitised more than40 such examples of reclaimed erotica. Often produced on zero budget and distributed through a network of magazine subscriptions and black market retailers, these motion pictures were mostly disposed of or forgotten in short order. Their work was part of a long lineage of stag films, 8mm home movies, mondo and nudist documentaries, and filmed stripteases exhibited to select audiences of men via cinema clubs or on private reels. L ong before 1970s sexploitation comedies such as Eskimo Nell and Come Play With Me brought bawdy humour and copious T&A to the commercial theatres of Britain, the country’s smut industry comprised an informal economy of club impresarios, carneys and photographers. ![]()
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