Maria Beatty makes fetishistic film noir; imagine a kinky Louise Brooks, a sadistic Marlene Dietrich (who's the top?), and some nipple clamps and hot wax, and you're beginning to get the idea... ~ Tristan Taormino, The Village Voice
Maria Beatty's ..."Ecstasy in Berlin's" perverse pleasures are expertly filmed and deftly framed, giving it an air of luxurious decadence. Watching it made me feel like a wealthy sybarite in an elegant bordello, with lovely and expensive girls performing a series of degenerate sex acts carefully staged for my benefit. It looks like a German art film of the 1920s, like a dirty movie by Murnau or Fritz Lange, or like vintage porn photographs come to life. ~ Greta Christina
Maria Beatty's films The Black Glove, The Elegant Spanking and Les Vampyres are a Nykvist/Bergman/ Polanski festival: dramatic close-ups; massive, internalized longing; and gorgeous suffering.Think Persona meets The Tenant with some genuinely hot sex. Beatty is fonder of dramatic, artificial lighting than Nykvist, a little more along the lines of Sam Fuller mixed with Fritz Lang, and her soundtrack selections are very Bergmanesque... ~ SASHA, Eye Weekly
If you enjoy high end artistic porn with a kinky edge, then you are probably already familiar with Maria Beatty. Beatty is a New York filmmaker that has earned awards such as the "The Best Film" Fetish Category at the Festival Internacional de Cine Erotico De Barcelona XII. If you aren't an arty erotic film buff, then I'll take a minute and describe what makes this particular person's work different. It plays to the psychological state of the viewer first, and draws their mind into a rich world that somehow exists between retro film noir and dark masturbation fantasies that you would hesitate to tell a lover. Sometimes the images seem to flit by like memories of an erotic adventure from the past, with a brief glimpse of the curve of a waist or a lingering gaze at gloves playing over a nipple. Other times, the scenes unfold like more tradition pornography (but with a very careful eye for detail). You'll find BDSM, lesbian, spanking, latex, leather, lace, corsets, stockings, shoes, foot worship, medical play, water sports, and a lot more here. It is sort of a grab bag of shadow sensuality. If you enjoy artistic lesbian aesthetic porn movies with a retro feel to them, you should definitely check this out. - Vamp, Janesguide.com?
In 1997 filmmaker Maria Beatty unveiled her hypnotic debut work The Black Glove, an intimate portrayal of a sadomasochistic encounter between herself and a dominant female partner. The now-legendary film made the entrancing submissive a cult star in the worldwide fetish scene and defined her “erotic noir†style, an atmospheric blend of lesbian hardcore and the shadowy look of old crime flicks. Committed to total control over her own work, Beatty has gone on to establish herself as a true independent, winning acclaim and awards for her uncompromising work. Her highly personal approach achieves an authentic sensuality rarely seen in adult cinema, leading viewers into the enticing worlds of fetishism and S&M.
Current:
"Silken Sleeves" ~ Winner Best Independent Film ~ UK EROTIC AWARDS 2007
Beatty is currently in production on her second feature film which will focus on lesbian thematics with a strong narrative structure unifying sexual fantasies and deep psychology; hauntingly disturbing and beautiful. She will also be unveiling on DVD and VOD four brand new fetish/sm films, Autumn 2007.
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