Below the Rim

Every image in The Fall of Communism as Seen in Gay Pornography comes from gay erotic videos produced in Eastern Europe since the introduction of capitalism. The video provides a glimpse of young men responding to the pressures of an unfamiliar world, one in which money, power and sex are now connected.

Haruhiko and Yukihiko are childhood friends. In elementary school, their homeroom teacher, Mr. Kintama, taught them to be homosexuals, and they became lovers and had a lot of fun in their youth. In junior high school, they met Tamabukuro Sensei, and in high school, they met Maradate Sensei, a biology teacher, and their homosexual life became more fulfilling. After graduating from high school, however, the two went their separate ways. Yukihiko went off to college in Hokkaido, while Haruhiko, in need of money for family reasons, went to work at a bar in Shinjuku's 2-Chome district. They had loved each other for many years, but time and distance had torn them apart. Time passed, and Yukihiko returned to Tokyo with his new girlfriend. There, the two are reunited by fate. Now, what will happen between them!

Mario (Thiago Cazado) is in debt. To pay the bills, he displays the body on a famous porn site.

I'm a Porn Star follows the lives of guys in the neighborhood who are likely a lot more famous than you - at least on the Internet. There are an estimated 370 million pornographic websites on-line. Porn is now a thirteen BILLION dollar business. So who's doing all this moonlighting? Turns out -- probably some people you know.

Remodeling of a pornographic scene in which I shot for a major French studio. It was a question of reappropriating these images (originally categorized as "hard") to extract their erotic and perhaps even romantic potential.