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Conscious Erotica
Dana Dane returns to adult By Mark Kernes
“The Seduction Diaries of a Femme is a new series,” Dane
explained. “It’s women’s fantasies of being with a more
masculine-embodied woman. Not necessarily hardcore
butch—I consider myself a tomboyish kind of girl. I don’t
think it’s about the hair—short hair, long hair, stuff like that—
it’s about the embodiment. So we definitely wanted to find
more masculine women, more feminine women and pair them
together, but we also wanted it to be more like, ‘Is that a boy?
Could that be?’ So I did cast some girls that have short hair,
and of course Lily Cade is a phenomenal performer and she’s
a lesbian so that’s awesome, and I was looking for specific
things like that, but I do want to stay true to the femininity
and beauty of women in all ways.”
The movie is a significant departure from Dane’s earlier
material. For one thing, she’s upped the ante from her
previous work by re-creating sexual situations over four
decades, all the while mindful of criticism she’s received from
fans of her earlier movies.
“I don’t want just a bunch of moaning,” she said. “I’m
the filming of Dana Dane’s
As pleased as we were to attend
Seduction Diaries of a Femme, we
have to say, the best news of
the day wasn’t the movie itself, but the
return, after a four-year absence, of its
director, Dana Dane. She’s the award-
winning creator of the Erocktavision
series, almost all of whose volumes
scored AAAA reviews from AVN. And
the icing on that cake is that not only
has Adam & Eve recognized Dane’s
creative talent, but they’ll be making
available all of Dane’s Erocktavision
titles as well.
trying to listen to people and hear what they want. I know
from my Erocktavision movies, one of the only critiques that I
felt people were 50/50 on was the moaning and the music, so
I started to put the moaning and the music in together. That’s
why I got the sound guy for this shoot. We’re capturing the
moaning, and I can make it go in and out and bring it in and
out with the music, and I think the audience I have will be
very happy.
“I have original music that is being made for each era, so
the music will fit,” she asserted.
On the subject of wardrobe and art direction, Dane said,
“For the ’50s, ’60s, ’70s and ’80s, we really went all out with
the wardrobe We even got vintage Porsches, from like 1957.
I specifically brought in incredible makeup and wardrobe and
stylists and hair people that just could really catch those eras,
and we worked really hard in making it really true to the ’50s,
’60s, ’70s and ’80s, and I think that will show in the movie.”
The key word, then, is “artistry,” and on that score, Dane
really knows her stuff. For example, today’s first scene is a solo
featuring Raven Rockette, dressed in colorful flowing minidress
and even a jeweled headband. She’s reclining on a ’70s era
couch that’s decked out in faux fur, looking as if she’s just
finished a doobie. But as the scene is about to commence, Dane
is insistent that at least one of the three cameras capturing the
action—usually the one on the rails—first see Raven through a
fog—even if the fogging machine she’s brought with her seems
to trip the circuit breakers occasionally.
Between scenes, Dane tells us how she landed this gig after
being away from directing for so long.
“It’s been an interesting journey,” she said. “This is my first
film back, and it’s with Adam & Eve, my first film with Adam &
Eve, and it’s really awesome to be working with a fine company
like that; they get my vision. ... They said to me, ‘We’re ready
for you and we would like to really bring you in and do our
lesbian content, and also conscious erotica.’
“I’ve always wanted to make conscious erotica—erotica that’s
artistic to the point of being cinematic; that’s been my forte—
and true girl/girl lesbian content, staying true to women and to
feminine sensitivity, staying true to feminism, and they feel that
too, so it’s a good fit,” she added. “As an indy filmmaker, I’ve
waited a long time for a company to come along that I can join
forces with, that truly gets my vibe, and what I want to do in
making erotic movies and adult content. What we would like to
do is get women to write in real women’s fantasies, and pick up
some of them and make movies about those. But you’re never
short of fantasies, for sure!”
Seduction Diaries of a Femme releases in September. Also in the
cast: Mia Austin, Sasha Heart, Sara Luvv, Ariel X, Morgan Lee,
Hope Howell and Joey Minx.
FEATURE
As Always, Autumn Is an Elegant Season
Superstar September is a term Elegant Angel fans
real and she has the best energy of any girl in the business.”
understand. That’s the month when the adult studio
Directing this title means a lot to Rotten because it was
brings out the big guns—not to mention the big asses. It
a series formerly helmed by William H. “I always enjoyed
just wouldn’t be the fall season without a big reveal from
working with William H. because he’s such a nice guy, very
Elegant Angel. So what does the studio have in store for
soft-spoken, and he lets you do your thing. … He always
consumers? It’s a return of two iconic Elegant series:
has such beautiful, beautiful product in the end. And he
Buttwoman and Slutwoman. But more on that below.
did a lot of the squirt movies for Elegant back in the day, so
Every member of the 2015 Elegant Angel directing team
that was something really cool for me to do the titles that
is out on the field with new releases. Veteran director Pat
he did before because it was like I’m in one of my favorite
Myne slides into fall with Oiled Up 3; busty blonde Summer
director’s shoes right now.”
Brielle takes the cover, with sultry brunettes Valentina
The other big name Elegant stable, adult star Alexis
Nappi, Maddy O’Reilly and Dava Foxx also doing scenes.
Texas, released her directorial debut last month, titled Big
Another Elegant Angel regular, director Dreadneck, has a
Booty Tryouts. For September she directs the new volume
new series on the way: Big Wet Interracial Asses. The creamy
in the Buttwoman series—an appropriate place for Texas to
booties of white gals Keisha Grey, Maddy O’Reilly, Jodi
make another landmark move: her first gangbang.
Taylor and Layla Price are all offered up on the altar of BBC.
And where would Buttwoman be without her
Bonnie Rotten unleashes Supersquirt 6, featuring Nina
companion, Slutwoman? The newest adult star to the
Elle, A.J. Applegate, Karla Kush, Marica Hase, Annie Cruz
hold title, Aidra Fox, will make her debut in the series this
and Zoey Monroe, with Veronica Avluv on the cover—a
month.
performer truly worthy of the series title. “I love her, I love
For sales information, contact Jerry at (818) 576-9464 or
her so much,” Rotten said. “She’s very fun and she’s very
juicyvideo@aol.com.
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