{"id":604,"date":"2010-11-08T22:29:59","date_gmt":"2010-11-08T21:29:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ilovebildwechsel.org\/?p=604"},"modified":"2025-02-26T13:59:34","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T12:59:34","slug":"made-in-secret-the-story-of-the-east-van-porn-collective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ilovebildwechsel.org\/?p=604","title":{"rendered":"made in secret: the story of the east van porn collective"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ilovebildwechsel.org\/ilovebildwechsel_wp_210310\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/webimage-small-square-for-cca.gif\" alt=\" \" \/><br \/>\nbildwechsel glasgow presents<\/p>\n<h2>made in secret: the story of the east van porn collective<\/h2>\n<p>Canada 2004 86mins main feature + extras<\/p>\n<p>at CCA, 16th November, 7pm, free event<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA thought-provoking and genre-bending look behind the scenes of what might be the world\u2019s only underground DIY anarcho-feminist porn collective. It isn\u2019t fact. It isn\u2019t fiction.  It isn\u2019t even the typically Canadian \u2018somewhere in between.\u2019 It\u2019s something else altogether. And if we could ask one thing of you as you watch our little movie, it would be that you try to create a new category for it in your mind.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cMade in Secret is an engaging, inspiring and deliciously perplexing labour of love, made over the course of three years by a group of friends who wanted to make a documentary about their local anarcho-feminist porn collective. The only problem was, that collective didn\u2019t exist. And so, in order to make the film, they actually became the anarcho-feminist porn collective that they so passionately wanted to document. So is the resulting film a documentary? A fictional drama? Even the collective doesn\u2019t know anymore. And ultimately, it doesn\u2019t matter, because the movie isn\u2019t about what happened or what didn\u2019t happen\u2014it\u2019s about what\u2019s possible. And the possibilities are huge, transcending the quest for egalitarian porn and touching at very heart of how we engage with others and with the world around us.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cA little bit of utopia does actually exist in the world.\u201d<br \/>\nCheryl Eddy, San Francisco Bay Guardian<br \/>\n\u201cForget for a second that the word \u201cporn\u201d is in the title \u2013 it\u2019s the concept of \u201ccollective\u201d that makes this doc extraordinary. Ostensibly a fly-on-the-wall look at the cuddly Vancouver creatives who work together to make \u201csexy movies\u201d \u2013 i.e., DIY porn \u2013 Made in Secret is more compelling for its depiction of working by consensus instead of by majority rule. It\u2019s fun watching the group members plan and film their latest opus (a \u201cpan-sexual romp\u201d dubbed BikeSexual), and everyone involved belies their cutesy nom de porn (Muffy, Mr. Pants, etc.) by being hyperarticulate. One member explains that the goal is to make \u201cpositive propaganda against the negative propaganda in the hegemony of porn.\u201d But when another member creates a stir by suggesting BikeSexual be shown at an alterna-porn festival \u2013 which would mark the first time one of their films would be shown to a non-EVPC audience \u2013 the ardently fair approach the members take when dealing with conflict illustrates that a little bit of utopia does actually exist in the world.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>www.eastvanporncollective.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>bildwechsel glasgow presents made in secret: the story of the east van porn collective Canada 2004 86mins main feature + extras at CCA, 16th November, 7pm, free event \u201cA thought-provoking and genre-bending look behind the scenes of what might be the world\u2019s only underground DIY anarcho-feminist porn collective. It isn\u2019t fact. It isn\u2019t fiction. 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