A new documentary, Peter de Rome: Grandfather of Gay Porn, traces the late filmmaker’s philosophy of sex and eroticism. Peter de Rome painted his experience as a gay man into a series of poetic and sexually charged film vignettes. The avant-garde filmmaker, admired by Warhol and John Gielgud alike, passed away this summer weeks before his 90th birthday. This Englishman’s legacy has been immortalized in the canon of gay erotica that is seen in director Ethan Reid’s titillating new documentary.
“My very first proper, improper, film was a little thing called Butch Easter. One day, I was sitting in a park and it was Easter Day and a boy came along. I was using my movie camera, and he walked right into my lens, and out again. I followed him, and we walked into the Easter parade and I followed him back to the Rockefeller Plaza and he came home with me. It was a very pleasant Easter Sunday. Fr me the key word in the visual and literary treatment of sex is erotic. Pornography is to eroticism as vulgarity is to wit. Eroticism is to arousal as pornography is to performance. Sex has such an enormous affinity to fantasy and is largely comprised of it, that arousal before the act can be all-important, sometimes even more exciting than the act itself. I know I’ve been labeled the grandfather of porn. I’d rather preferred the granddaddy of porn but I had no say in that.” -Peter de Rome
The film screens at aGLIFF (Austin Gay and Lesbian International Film Festival), Texas on September 13.
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