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MILESTONES | | By Jared Rutter
BAM Visions Turns 1
‘Mick Loves Anikka’ marks Evil Angel studio’s anniversary
LIGHTS,CAMERA...
first off-screen kiss on Friday, January 18,
Mick Blue and Anikka Albrite shared their
2013, in Las Vegas, during the AVN Expo.
According to Mick, it “was like when you
have two magnets, plus and minus, once
they reach a certain distance they’re drawn to each other
and it’s hard to get them apart. That’s how it happened
with our kiss. We didn’t have time to speak because we
were just sucked into each other.”
They’ve been inseparable ever since. Engaged in March
2013, married one year later, birthing BAM Visions in
2015, they celebrated their oneness this year with the
release of Mick Loves Anikka on the BAM/Evil Angel label.
Austria-born Mick worked in Europe before landing in
Porn Valley in 2002. Arizona native Anikka moved west
as a teen and blossomed into a sunny California Girl.
The multiple awards they’ve won since becoming
a couple—including several dual Performer of Year
prizes—the widespread respect for them within the
adult industry, and a large fan base have earned them the
affectionate title of “Porn’s Royal Couple.”
“We met in 2012 and had several sex scenes
together,” Mick says, “but it was only work. I was in a
relationship—I take relationships very serious—and she
For at least one other scene, Mick says, “We wanted to incorporate nature … Anikka is very much a
was also dating. So we were not free. And then finally…”
nature-oriented person.“ So right before the Christmas holidays he proposed, “Let’s go to Hawaii, Maui,
Their engagement was commemorated in front of a
beautiful island, waterfalls, beaches, temperature is fantastic. Let’s try to capture beautiful elements of the
waterfall in Australia in March 2013 and one year later
earth and connect with the beauty of Anikka. We flew there with an iPhone and the other camera I use for
they were married. “On our anniversary we like to go
my regular stuff.”
to tropical places,” Anikka says, citing jaunts to the
“We rented a jeep in Maui,” Anikka recalls, “and just drove all along the coast of Maui. Whatever we saw
Seychelles (2014) and the Maldives (2015).
that looked great, we would pull over and shoot something. It was pretty amazing. We didn’t actually plan
This year in August they’ll be visiting Mick’s
on putting it in Mick Loves Anikka initially, but we wanted to come up with something special.”
homeland. “We’re actually very fond of Austria,” he says.
High on Anikka’s bucket list was to be filmed having sex under a waterfall. And on Maui that dream came
“My sister is going to have a baby, it’s due in September
true. “We found this one waterfall where we shot the scene, and no people were there, we were completely
so we want to be there before.”
alone, only Anikka and myself. Anikka said, let’s just shoot it…and she went into the freezing water.”
“Family is very important to us,” Anikka adds.
Mick filmed the whole scene with his iPhone, both POV and with the phone on a mini-tripod, with
That includes their professional family, which consists
several different setups. “The scene was created, guerrilla style, just taking it by the moment.” He also shot
of another couple, the veteran porn technicians Claudio—
Anikka in other picturesque locations, including on the slope of one of Maui’s active volcanos.
aka Maestro Claudio—and Tiziana. Claudio is BAM’s
director of photography, Tiziana the editor. “Claudio is
phenomenal,” says Mick, “as you know from all the Mike
Adriano stuff.”
to take the viewer on a journey, to experience
BAM Visions has released 21 titles since July 8, 2015.
The company had its genesis in one scene they shot in
May 2015, a threeway with Valentina Nappi.
”It’s not just an anal scene, it’s more like ... we want
the girl ... her personality, her sexuality.
—Mick Blue
“It was kind of a tryout scene,” Mick says. ‘‘OK, shoot
the scene, let’s see how it looks like, and then we see if
we can make a whole movie out of it.’ So we shot the
scene. We showed it to [John] Stagliano, he liked it, so
we shot three more scenes and completed the first movie,
Anikka’s Anal Sluts. After that we started to produce one
movie a month, then two a month.”
And BAM Visions was welcomed into the Evil Empire.
Mick Loves Anikka is a milestone for its stars—not least
because they co-directed it. “It’s one of those movies that
developed organically,” Mick says. The first scene they
shot was with their good friend Erik Everhard just before
he relocated to Europe. They see his leaving as “a great
loss for the industry here in the U.S.”
Going forward, Mick says, “We definitely want to stay focused on really, really great anal sex. The way I
see it is it’s not just an anal scene, it’s more like—and that’s what I always explain to girls when I give them
a debrief for the scene—we want to take the viewer on a journey, to experience the girl in any kind of way, to
experience her personality, her sexuality, and then with this experience, it leads into the sex.”
Both continue to work for other producers and they’re particularly hyped about their co-starring roles in
Babysitting the Baumgartners from Adam & Eve Pictures.
“It’s our big feature movie of the year,” says Anikka. “It’s about a couple, Mr. & Mrs Baumgartner, who
end up seducing their babysitter, Sara Luvv, and have a lot of sex with her, some really kinky stuff.”
Up next from BAM is Anal Tootsies, combining the anal and foot fetish niches, and Anikka’s Anal Sluts 2, a
much-anticipated follow-up to their multiple award-winner.
Actually, their most ambitious project right now is setting up a BAMVisions.com website. “That’s
something we definitely have on our bucket list for the future. And hopefully it will work out soon for us to
go online. Now you can see our product on the EvilAngel.com website.”
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