[spectre] “The Subject is S*X” Now Available from the Blackchair DVD Collection

[Joel S. Bachar]

“The Subject is S*X” Now Available from the Blackchair DVD Collection

The Blackchair DVD Collection announces it’s newest title available 
from the Other Cinema DVD label, Stephen Parr’s “The Subject is S*x”, 
an extraordinary personal romp through the seamy side of sex in cinema. 
Drawn from Parr’s extensive 16mm film archives, this polymorphous 
program promises a pulsating panorama of perverse pleasures that 
includes home movies, hillbilly porn, cartoon smut, commercials, 
trailers, educational films, hygiene films, burlesque bits, peepshow 
loops and a host of smutty special features.

“The Subject is S*x” was drawn almost entirely from Parr’s holdings at 
Oddball Film + Video.  Founded in 1984, Oddball houses an extensive 
offbeat collection of over 50,000 films. Parr, an image-maker, curator 
and archivist has been screening “The Subject is S*x” (and hosting his 
notorious “Cheap Smut Give-A-Way”) throughout the United States and 
Europe for over 2 years to sellout audiences.

The Subject is S*x Curated by Stephen Parr 
100 minutes    Color/B&W, Super 8, 16mm, & 35mm 
Price: $24.95 (for institutional rates, please contact 
info at microcinema.com) 

This DVD can be purchased online at:
http://www.microcinema.com/programResult.php?program_id=183

More Details:

An introductory essay by Eric Schaefer, film scholar and author 
of “BOLD! DARING! SHOCKING! TRUE!, A History of Exploitation Film 1919-
1959” (Duke University Press), lays the groundwork for this diverse 
compendium of moving image erotica.   Schaefer writes, “’The Subject is 
S*x’ is a Rorschach test.   Where some will see humor, a few will see 
outrage. What may be titillation for many will be a turn-off for 
others.  But for everyone, and in every instance of the history of sex 
in the Twentieth Century.”

Program highlights include: 
·	The “nudie cutie” adventures of “Uncle Si and the Sirens”.
·	The classic cartoon curio “Buried Treasure” starring Eveready 
Hardon (with a new music score by Nik Phelps from San Francisco’s 
Sprocket Ensemble).
·	”French Tickler”, a clever 1920s clip of animated fellatio.
·	50’s classic burlesque films (including “Love Moods” with famed 
femme fatale Lili St. Cyr cavorting in a ornate bathtub).
·	Choice 60s and 70s porn trailers (featuring the psychobilly 
smut “Memories Within Miss Aggie” and the pre-Viagra “Dynamite”).
·	“970-KATHY” - a kinky, campy late 80’s commercial for phone s*x.

“The Subject is S*x” also contains soft-core selections with hidden or 
unintended erotic messages.  A Jade East cologne commercial featuring 
sexy Japanese go-go dancers becomes a sexual exhortation for men to 
take matters into their own hands, a home movie (“Crossing the 
Equator”) becomes a surreal souvenir of cross dressing seafarers, and 
the US Navy training film ”How to Give an Enema” turns into a kinky 
homo erotic lesson in water sports. By compiling these generous gems in 
to a full-length collection, “The Subject is S*x” brings together 
commercial, camp, comedy, and explicit s*x all in one gender-bending, 
genre-bending, love fest.

Special features include a fast-paced montage mix entitled “Beefcakes 
and Cheesecakes” and an interactive “Cheap Smut Give-A-Way” in which 
viewers pick a prize by clicking a cheap cologne bottle, releasing 
random “fragrances” from the camp sex underground.

Note: “The Subject is S*x” contains adult content and you must be 18 to 
purchase this DVD. 

The Subject is S*x Curated by Stephen Parr 
100 minutes    Color/B&W, Super 8, 16mm, & 35mm 
 Price: $24.95 (for institutional rates, please contact 
info at microcinema.com) 

For more information or to arrange interviews with curator Stephen 
Parr, please call 415-864-0660 or 
e-mail info at microcinema.com 

This DVD can be purchased online at:
http://www.microcinema.com/programResult.php?program_id=183

Joel S. Bachar, Founder
Microcinema International
531 Utah Street, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA
415-864-0660