Sometimes you have to search off the beaten path for a more unique and beautiful experience. Porn is no exception. If you are looking for a more unique experience or interested in expanding your horizons, we have compiled a list of studios that push the boundaries of traditional porn making. Browse Ceci N’est Pas Une Porn: experimental and alternative adult films for works that defy category. Here are a few.

N MAX LANDER
“A thin line between beauty and vulgarity, restriction and hedonism, decency and decadence – to make them all one and the same.”
N Maxwell Landers is a Toronto portrait photographer, designer, artist and full time nerd. Landers has shot the faces of Eddie Izzard, Divine Brown, The Barenaked Ladies, Serena Ryder, and Gaga, and have been featured in Publications such as VICE, The Globe and Mail, Xtra!, Be (France), Magpie Darling (London), and Curve, as well as having participated in countless gallery shows, both solo and group. The beauty and grit of Landers’ photography is unleashed upon video resulting in sensually rich portraits of human sexuality.

ELEVEN TENTACLES
“Sadie Lune is a multimedia artist, sex worker, pleasure activist and creator of Eleven Tentacles . She has won awards for her films and performances, exhibited explicit whore-positive work in venues from a former Army barracks latrine to the SFMOMA, and shown her cervix internationally (in homage to the great Annie Sprinkle).”

Perhaps some of the most creative use of modern video technologies we have seen in some while, Sadie Lune seduces us with concept driven work that is both romantic and literally dripping with sex. Lune is a renowned international performance artist and activist who calls both the Bay Area and Berlin her home. Her work is edgy, erotic and highly thought-provoking, and has been exhibited in some of the largest fine art establishments on the West Coast. She picks up where 3rd wave feminist performance art left off — traversing the plains of gender, sexuality and technology with her lobster cellphone in hand, flogger in another, along-side a large, plush camel in Baby, You’re Frozen. Surreal sexiness at its finest.

FEMMERATI PRODUCTIONS
“Sexperimental, femme-driven cinema.”

The dynamic duo of queer femme porn realness, Rozen DeBowe and Dylan Ryan joined forces to create their first collaboration Tooth and Nail which is viciously winning over film festival audiences and we are super excited to have it available here! They are a powerhouse of creative femme-speration and just might take over the world with their brawn, beauty and brains. Step inside the whirlwind that is Femmerati Productions and hang on tight!

C BATTS FLY

“Carlos Batts [C. Batts FLY] was an award winning artist, photographer and director. Batts directed independent features such as Voluptuous Biker Babes, underground art films American Gothic, and April Flores World.”

The photographic work of the late Carlos Batts holds international cult status on the underground art scene and his video work continues this legacy. With Feminist Porn Awards’ Heartthrob of the Year and BBW super star April Flores as his wife and muse, Batts crafted a psycho-sexual journey laced with powerful visuals that take you for quite the ride. Batts put the Hollywood cliches through this lens like a blender. Out of the meat grinder of Batts’ mind, adult stars, celebrity sex tapes, runway fetish shows and reality television are processed into the beauty that is Artcore. His work oozes with the pop appeal you would expect from one of Hollywood’s avant-garde photographers and has the high gloss finish of a cherried-out low rider.

CREAMY COCONUT

“Creamy Coconut is a production company specializing in surreal educational entertainment. Surreal education is when a sexy mariachi band is interrogating a mime about multiplication tables. Then they hook up.”

On a mission to promote peace on earth by providing the option of fun learning and healthier sex – Creamy Coconut shoot loads, not guns. Based in NYC and the Bay Area, Irina (director and founder) brings formal psychology and film training to merge high production value with hardcore fucking. Creamy Coconut offers porn, film and design that comforts and tickles the mind, while encouraging people to explore their fantasies in a safe, communicative and nourishing environment. In collaboration with Quinn Cassidy, Creamy Coconut released a very literal bike porn, de-railed, a kinky lesson about adjusting a bicycle derailleur.

CHRISTIAN SLAUGHTER
“Christian Slaughter has been working in the business since 2000. First as a production assistant, and later as production manager and producer on several movies for directors such as Jürgen Brüning, Bruce LaBruce, Todd Verow, Jorn Hartmann, Maria Beatty and Cheryl Dunye.”

Christian Slaughter is no stranger to porn. Having worked for some of the leading directors in the industry for over a decade, Slaughter has now made a name for himself with his directorial debut BIODILDO. The high gloss value of his work makes it stand apart from the rest and its queer sensibilities will arouse the curiosities and delights of viewers from various sexualities and genders. It’s a sexy and magical, queering of the kitsch that truly define Slaughter’s cinematic vision.

MAD SCIENCE STUDIOS
“The raw footage is said to have first surfaced publicly after the reclusive scientist bartered it for six bottles of laudanum, a vector network analyzer calibration wrench, and a live lamprey.”

A taste of humor and industrialism conjoined in movie form. Mad Science Studios explores some of outlier territories of human behavior with regard and disregard to historical reference. Hysteria, petticoats, pegging, construction site sex, and strong cock vibrators are just a few of the topics addressed in the bizarre yet wonderful films from the mind of a mad scientist.

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