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PEOPLE IN THE NEWS | |By AVN Staff
Explosive WHO’S WHO
name BAM Visions. Two members of Team BAM are Mick Blue and Anikka Albrite, the
The newest studio on the Evil Angel distribution roster is a group effort going under the
reigning AVN Male and Female Performers of the Year (and husband and wife). They’ve
join forces with veteran shooter Maestro Claudio to form the new production label.
Comments Evil Angel founder John Stagliano, “Combining the beautifully graphic ‘POV-Plus’
camerawork of Maestro Claudio with the Performer of the Year talents of Anikka Albrite and Mick
Blue is a brilliant move. Each is uniquely talented. And they are a pleasure to deal with!”
Claudio has an extensive history behind and in front of the XXX camera, including years as Evil
Angel director Mike Adriano’s lead cameraman. Additionally, Claudio’s wife, Tiziana, will apply her
editing skills to BAM Visions movies.
“I’ve always been a strong believer in partnership: strength through unity,” Claudio said. “I think
that a great couple in front of the camera—Anikka and Mick—and another great couple behind the
camera—Tiziana and me—can really make a winning team.”
The first BAM Visions title, Anikka’s Anal Sluts, is slated to release July 6 on DVD and VOD.
Blue talks about the type of fare BAM Visions wants to create: “First of all, great anal stuff
combined with the great camera angles Maestro Claudio delivers, and the energy and passion I will
try to get out of the scenes as a performer.” He says the company hopes to make movies known
for “girls having a good time, cumming a lot, with some POV shots and the best quality possible.
We want them also to be known for great focus on girls’ buttholes and sometimes vaginas or tits,
depending on the theme. Anikka is also planning her directing debut.”
camera—Anikka and Mick—and another great
”I think that a great couple in front of the
couple behind the camera—Tiziana and me—
can really make a winning team.
—Maestro Claudio
“The beauty of Evil Angel is that every director can fulfill their own fantasies and fetishes,”
Albrite noted. “The possibilities are endless.” One possibility she’s contemplating is “directing a
stylized, lesbian-themed movie.” The multiple AVN Award winner plans to perform in most of her
releases.
Added Blue, “With Evil Angel I will have the freedom to live out my perversions and also fetish
interest without the company I’m directing for telling me what to produce next.” Blue, who also
plans to perform in many of his scenes, mentions a favored kink that led him to porn and still gets
him off: “The idea that I can have sex with a woman without having to talk—it’s like having sex with
a complete stranger.”
“As a director, I prefer pure sex against storyline,” Claudio said. “I want to focus on the visual
impact of the picture—since I firmly believe that pornography is the pure essence of art, I want
to try to make every shot look like a painting in motion. I consider myself a painter that uses the
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Combination Mick, Anikka and Claudio create BAM Visions
camera instead of the brush. I’ll let my partners take care of
[storylines], but for me it’s the authenticity of the sexual act
translated in form of image that counts; the erotic image itself
tells the whole story.” He also mentioned that, “Once in awhile I
still perform, just for fun.”
Albrite, who grew up in Arizona, has never directed “aside
from my home videos and custom videos that I make for fans,”
but she’s confident about putting her experience to work. “I have
shot for the best directors in the industry and I have a naturally
creative and perverted mind, which I’m looking forward to
sharing with my fans.” She counts Jules Jordan, Mason, Evil Angel
moviemakers Dana Vespoli, Manuel Ferrara and Adriano, plus her
husband, among her influences. And really she’s been shooting
camera since her first scene, back in 2011—“It was a POV scene
where they handed the camera to my male talent and myself to
film each other ... once we started, it felt totally natural. After all,
it was similar to my personal life before porn, when I would film
myself having sex.”
Indeed, Albrite’s interest in erotic expression came early. “I
was always drawn to porn and had a fascination with it since
my teenage years. Even before then, I would sneak a peek at my
parents’ Playboys and dream of being like those beautiful, naked
women one day. After I started having sex, I became insatiable
and experimented with many kinks. I finally decided I wanted
to join the ranks of sexual superstars while I was still young and
could act out all my perversions and fantasies.”
Blue, originally from Graz, Austria, guesses he’s performed in
over 2,500 scenes since 2000; he’s been working in the U.S. since
2004 and living in California since ’07. Having shot over 800
scenes since he started directing in ’04, he lists Mason, William
H. and Jordan among his directing influences, plus Evil Angel’s
Christoph Clark, the late John Leslie and Stagliano. The idea
of working in porn came to him at 17. “Having a drink with a
friend at a bar, I said if I ever have to change my job I will try to
do porn. Well, five years later I looked into the possibility. It was
very difficult to get contacts, but thankfully I got to meet Thomas
Janisch, the owner of the Austrian contact magazine ÖKM, and
everything went its way from there.”
Claudio describes a background unusual in the porn industry.
Hailing from Trieste, “a historic, small city in northern Italy about
100 miles east of Venice,” he has worked as a mining engineer
and has multiple pilots’ licenses. His porn history is equally wide-
ranging. “I was dreaming about getting in the porn business since
the time I was going to university.”
After Claudio and Tiziana came to the U.S., “the right
circumstances came and I started doing porn instead of being a
pilot. I started in 1994 as a performer and I loved it. ... I began
to accompany the performing work with shooting video and
stills, which was my hobby when I was younger, and my wife
started doing editing, so we were a complete service to different
production companies. I shot many scenes for Michael Stefano,
Jewel De’Nyle, John Strong, T.T. Boy, Peter North, Mark Wood,
Sean Michaels and others. I also executive produced some
movies, and later I directed movies for Platinum X and Red Light
District.” That led to his association with Adriano, which led to
BAM Visions coming to Evil Angel. “For me the secret of living a
happy and successful life is trying to always have fun and never
take anything too seriously, and this is what I always do.”