"The Amateurs"; DV; color; 49:00 (2003)
director, camera: Usama Alshaibi
edited by Kristie Alshaibi
What is preventing these people from completing video penetration?
"... a movie that gleefully relishes in depicting every white bread suburban parent’s nightmare as young girls are coerced by the ‘foreign’ directors into appearing in a porn video. The filmmakers argue in heavily accented English about how best to stick a speculum into a young girl’s vagina in a sequence that glorifies both sexual transgression and contemporary anxieties about the racial other. The fear of white slavery updated as somebody’s daughter is coerced into giving a fat drunk a rim-job. Alshaibi’s command of his materials is so strong that some audiences don’t know if the film is raw footage of porn auditions, documentary, or satire. And thankfully he’s not telling."- Jack Sargeant (author DEATHTRIPPING: THE CINEMA OF TRANSGRESSION)
starring:
Andy Ortmann
Camilla Ha
Samer Alshaibi
Sarah Lynn
Piotr Tokarski
Edita Malakauskaite
Echo Transgression
Coco Nizzelle
Brandon & Kalyx
screenings:
CineKink NYC at Anthology Film Archive (October 2006)
HighSchool Space
(Chicago 2004)
Chicago Underground Showcase, Hinterzimmer (Austria 2003)
Sleaze
Z Fest (Chicago, Heaven Gallery 2003)