The residents of nearby towns have long been perplexed by the muffled sounds of grinding machinery and echoes of inhuman shrieks which can be heard for creeping down from Mad Science Studios in the late hours of certain nights. The only clues to the nature of whatever mysterious experiments are conducted in the remote laboratory can be found in the bizarre pornographic films presented here…

We interviewed Mad Scientist, Ned (whom you may recognize from Heavenly Spire) about his two film concoctions.

What historical accuracies or intended “inaccuracies” can sex geeks look forward to in Hysteria?

This scene (which was originally a live performance conceived and directed by Bianca) plays more on popular current conceptions about Victorian hysteria treatments than on any historical data. We wanted to mess with the trope of a predatory doctor taking advantage of his victimized patients by introducing an enthusiastic and insatiable woman actively seeking this treatment for purely lustful reasons.

It is easy for me to get carried away with mad doctor roles, so I couldn’t resist building some bizarre sex machines to set the tone. None of those devices have any historical precedent outside my own ideas of camp and whimsy. I made them from sex toy freebies and parts from used power tools.

Were there any real-world difficulties in filming Trespass?

Loads! It was a spur of the moment, seat of the pants film. I had the idea for Trespass only 48 hours before shipping the completed product off to the 2012 Feminist Porn Awards’ review committee at the last second before the deadline. It was a mad sleepless rush, and it made me wish I had had someone else to help edit after we stayed up all night shooting.

The building was an old Astronomy research center which was about to be demolished. We only had one shot at shooting there, between midnight and 5am. We brought a camera/tech person along, but it turned out her pulmonary issues made the threat of asbestos a potentially serious danger. We insisted that she stay outside, and as a result most of Trespass is shot with fixed cameras and only the two of us on set.

What does your sexual education and background bring to your films?

It feels weird to talk about my “sexual education.” I never went to sex school. Since I started doing sex work I’ve given a few talks and run some workshops about sex, but I feel like my motivations have been more about sharing experiences and opening up conversation than about imparting any kind of specialized knowledge. I do think that sharing and talking about our sexualities can help us relate to one another. Considering different experiences of fucking can change people’s ideas about what is acceptable, and can help people contextualize feelings of shame. Those ideas motivate both my films and the sexual “education” work I’ve done.

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