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MILESTONES | | By Tod Hunter
Shooting movie for AE Films, True Erotica, is a
The location for Holly Randall’s debut
rural house, a comfortable place that
seems to have been expanded and
remodeled by whim: A small front
door enters to an expansive tiled foyer with
arches leading to a living room with exposed
beams, a stone fireplace and massive wood
bar with glasses hanging above. You get the
feeling that some past resident said, “Let’s
enclose the entryway” and the whole house
was modified to suit. A kitchen is up several
steps to the left and a small powder room is
conveniently located next to the bar.
“I was at the point where I wanted to pitch
myself as a director,” Randall tells me. “Most
people know me as a photographer, but they
don’t know that I can shoot video as well. I
was thinking of different companies: I didn’t
want to go with a small no-name company,
because I wanted to make a big thing about
it, but I didn’t want to go with a big company
that already has its style, and has its own in-
First Glam photographer Holly Randall makes debut for AE Films
house directors. I wanted somebody I could grow with.”
in to adjust the uncooperative undergarment.
Randall continued, “Around this time, Adult Empire
Daniels retires to the powder room for a break and
hired me to shoot box covers and they were telling me
Nomar ambles in. He sits in the easy chair, picks up the
they were new to production. They’re established and
cigar, inspects the band, takes a puff as Daniels comes
they’re a big name in distribution, and I thought ‘This is
back. “Hi baby,” he says, casually, grabbing her ass and
a perfect opportunity.’ They’re a big name, they’re well
pulling her close as she giggles. They’re starting already.
established in distribution, but they’re new to production.
Daniels stands next to the chair, posing, butt turned to
They don’t have a style yet. They loved the idea. I loved
camera, as he kisses her hip. Can’t see what his hands are
the vibe, and they don’t have that L.A.-showbiz attitude.”
doing but her low giggles are a good sign.
Randall put together a budget for the four-scene shoot.
Randall’s intense focus on the subject at hand is keeping
“I have a lot of people here, I have a lot of things going
everybody on their toes as she moves around, camera
on. I don’t want to do a cheap movie, because there’s no
at her eye. They start to undress, pulling up her bra, his
reason to hire me to do that. It costs money to make stuff
shirt. She still has the bow tie on. He puts one hand down
look the way I make it look. I can’t just wave a magic wand
her pants while still clutching her breast. She smiles,
and make everything look amazing. It’s a collaborative
her tongue sticking out a little. She pulls off Nomar’s
effort from this amazing team I’ve been able to put
belt, poses with it. Somehow his pants got open and
together, and that costs money. I wrote down everything
she’s squatting down, sucking him. “So pretty,” Randall
that I wanted, and I was sure they were going to say no
says. Daniels licks his balls, wiggles her butt, he sits, she
and try to talk me down from that ... and they didn’t.
stands, pulling her pants down. “Straddle his leg,” Randall
“I was like. ‘Oh, shit. I better make the best movie
says. She climbs on and he starts pumping up into her as
ever,” she adds with a laugh.
the assistants adjust lights. “Fucking beautiful,” Randall
Today’s scene features Dani Daniels and Ramon Nomar,
says, eye on her viewfinder.
and Randall gets things started by pulling a camera out
A dog walks through the room, thankfully out of frame,
of a case, a 35mm-looking camera body with a lens like a
as Ella Fitzgerald sings “It’s almost like being in love.”
bazooka, to take the stills before shooting video. Daniels,
They move to reverse cowgirl, and Daniels goes from prim
dressed in a tuxedo, sits on an easy chair, pulls out a cigar,
to lustfully grinning in a few thrusts. She lies back on the
puts it in her mouth. Music gets turned on. Ella Fitzgerald.
chair, he tongues her ass as she moans and giggles, trying
“That looks fucking rad,” Randall says, loudly, encouraging
to keep a straight face for the stills. They go to standing
Daniels. “You want me to light it?” Daniels asks. “Oh
doggy as Randall says, “Make eye contact.” He starts to
yeah. It’s backlit. So good,” Randall says. Daniels takes a
thrust into her and she moans, lips pursed. “Isn’t this so
puff. “Oh my gawd,” Randall croons as Daniels smokes,
civilized?” Randall asks. Yes. Randall climbs a ladder for
theatrically: her cheeks sink in, then she playfully pulls the
the high shot, murmuring “I want to be a part of this” as
cigar out of her mouth and kisses it. “It is kinda phallic,”
Daniels gives her a lookit-what-I-got grin. Nomar pulls
Randall observes. Louis Armstrong sings that “the breeze
her legs up and she shudders at the internal tension. For a
caressed the trees tenderly.” Randall is definitely in
conclusion, Daniels lights the cigar again to complete the
charge: One comment and two assistants scurry in and
visual pun with smoke substituting for the pop as Bing
move lights and take light meter readings as Randall looks
Crosby sings about how “They all laughed at Christopher
at the computer monitor. “Looks really great,” she says to
Columbus when he said the world was round.”
no one in particular. Daniels pulls open the shirt, revealing
“Okay, got it.” Randall says. “That is so rad.” She walks
a black-and-white bra. Good choice. She doffs the trousers,
over to Nomar and Daniels, showing them the shots in
revealing matching bikini pants. “Pull the butt out a
her camera while the assistants lay down a track for the
little,” Randall says. “Like this?” Daniels asks, cocking a
video camera and adjust the lights so they can do it again
hip. “No, the panties,” Randall says, as an assistant runs
on video.
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