SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — Pink and White Productions has added HardWerk Pictures to its PinkLabel.tv streaming platform with content helmed by performer and producer Paulita Pappel along with partner and co-director Rod Wyler.
“HardWerk's vision,” noted a rep, “is to create cinematic hardcore porn that brings the raw and explicit sexuality of the performers as collaborators in a way that allows the viewer to explore kinks without shame. Their vehicle? The gang-bang.”
The project stems from Wyler’s background in organizing gang-bangs and a desire to produce a gang-bang series with a more cinematic feel than typical productions. For further inspiration, Wyler and Pappel turned to "gang-bang classics from the ’80s," the rep said, as well as "cinematic and pop culture references from Russ Meyers and Tarantino to Vogue Magazine and Rihanna."
The forthcoming "Labyrinth Bang," due later this week, was costar June Fontaine's first such experience.
"It was the first time I shot for a bigger production company, with a whole team of people, all incredibly caring, kind and attentive to all our needs and it truly was a first great experience, exactly like I imagined. We had many conversations about what we liked or disliked, our limits and desires,” Fontaine shared.
Performer Kali Sudhra stars in the studio's title "Bride Gang."
"I hadn’t ever performed in a gang-bang — the opportunity popped up in a coincidental way," she said. "I chose to do it because the director is someone that I know and trust, and some of the the performers were people I had worked with before or met in the porn scene, so I felt more at ease. I think it’s always easier if you have someone familiar to work with because it creates less pressure and if you already have an established friendship it can even be funny."
Bishop Black costars in "Bride Gang" as "The Groom."
"I did this because there was a freedom for the men to interact with each other, which overlapped the gang-bang/orgy labels, but still was predominantly gang-bang," he said. "Plus, I love working with Kali Sudhra and I was also excited to be working with the other guys. We sat down before and discussed what things we were into doing, and more importantly hearing Kali’s desires, boundaries and hard limits. It didn’t feel one-sided and we all had the opportunity to discuss everything on an equal level."
Dante Dionys, a member of the cast of HardWerk's "Gang Car Bang," enjoyed the collaborative aspect of the project.
"I really dig the creative as well as conscious approach that Hardwerk has towards gang-bangs," said Dionys. "I think that really highlights the hot aspect of a gangbang: to collectively take care of another and give special attention to the performer in the center. I believe HardWerk wants to spread that attention and care to everyone involved in the movie, whether it be the performers or the crew."
"Gang Car Bang" cast member Gabi Gold had previously performed in an onscreen gang-bang, but noted the HardWerk experience was "way more ornate and there was a totally different vibe on set."
"What I liked a lot about this second gang-bang scene of mine was the story behind it and that I was able to give my ideas into it. I really felt like a part of the whole production," she recalled. "What I also appreciated a lot was the fact that the focus was not exclusively on me, but also on the guys. A movie has been created that offers a diverse perspective to a diverse audience. So it became one of my most exciting and artsy shots. Additionally, it happened to be of those I was most passionate about because it referred very much to my personal taste and idea of what erotic means."
Pappel expressed a desire to "reclaim the term 'gang-bang' just as I reclaim the terms 'queer' and 'slut' from their negative connotation into empowering practices."
HardWerk, Pappel noted, "embraces the orgiastic quality of a gang-bang. We distance ourselves from a scenario where one person is 'used' by others and rather create a sexual dynamic where a person is the center of attention. I find this is the next step in my feminist porn practice, to create a subgenre that can encompass elements of gonzo and push hardcore kink in an explicitly sex-positive celebratory frame that cares for cinematic qualities."
Given that PinkLabel.tv hosts emerging and independent adult filmmakers, Pappel found it to be a welcoming home for an enterprise such as HardWerk Pictures.
“I love PinkLabel.tv for its unique approach to sexuality and porn. It is inclusive, diverse and celebrates shame-free sex-positivity,” Pappel said. “That aligns perfectly with our vision and mission for a project that reclaims the gang-bang as a consensual, sexually empowering practice, placing the spotlight on a dynamic that reveres orgiastic fantasies.”
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