Tony Comstock

World Premiere Benefit Screening of Brett & Melanie: Boi Meets Girl

by Viviane on 01/18/2025

in Events

brettmelanie 300x197 World Premiere Benefit Screening of Brett & Melanie: Boi Meets Girl

Location: The LGBT Community Center, 208 West 13th Street New York, NY 10011

Cost: $10.00

As a part of The Women’s Film Series at  The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center

ALL PROCEEDS FROM THIS SCREENING GO TO BENEFIT THE CENTER’S PROGRAMS

The seventh in Tony Comstock’s ongoing Real People, Real Life, Real Sex documentary series, “Brett and Melanie: Boi Meets Girl” is an exploration of sexual pleasure in committed relationships and the problematic place of explicit sexuality in cinema.

”Brett and Melanie” depicts a butch/femme couple, and opens up questions about strength and vulnerability in the context of how we portray and interpret gender. Throughout Brett and Melanie’s interview, there is a constant dance of who is strong for whom, of who is vulnerable and who nurtures; and this dance continues when Brett and Melanie make love.

By including frank footage of Brett and Melanie’s lovemaking along with their candid testimony, the film also opens up questions about the meaning of reality in the context of documentary filmmaking, and explodes preconceptions about the place of sexuality and eroticism in cinema.

TONY COMSTOCK BIO
In a world awash in sexualized imagery, why does so little of it speak to the common pleasurable reality of sex? In his 20+ years as a filmmaker and photographer, Tony Comstock has explored this and other aspects of the human condition. Subjects of Comstock’s films have included love, sex, 9/11, indigenous fisheries, hurricanes, refugees, HIV/AIDS orphans, and the visualization of God. His current focus is the Real People, Real Life, Real Sex series. Reaction to these films has ranged from film festival laurels and critical and popular acclaim, to police raids on screenings and intimidation of DVD retailers.

More info: http://www.gaycenter.org/node/5953

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Indecent Exposure: A Discussion and Screening of Films You Are Unlikely to See Elsewhere

by Viviane on 09/26/2024

in censorship, Events

greenpinkcaviar 006 1 Indecent Exposure: A Discussion and Screening of Films You Are Unlikely to See Elsewhere

This month, the National Coalition Against Censorship is holding a series of programs called “How Obscene is This! The Decency Clause Turns 20,” to highlight the effects 1990s attacks on culture continue to have on art and society and to reassess the state of art funding.

This Monday, there will be a free screening of Destricted, a collection of short films by visual artists, all exploring the boundaries between pornography and art. This will be the exclusive national pre-release screening of the film. Destricted has screened at the Tate Modern in London in 2006, Critics Week at the Cannes Film Festival, as well as the Sundance and Edinburgh Film Festivals.

The films are as follows:

  • Balkan Erotic Epic – Marina Abramović
  • Hoist – Matthew Barney
  • Sync – Marco Brambilla
  • Impaled – Larry Clark
  • We Fuck Alone – Gaspar Noé
  • House Call – Richard Prince
  • Death Valley – Sam Taylor-Wood

Watch the trailer for DESTRICTED.

7:30 Discussion with Amy Adler, the Emily Kempin Professor of Law at NYU, documentary film director Tony Comstock,  Andrew Hale, Destricted‘s Founder, filmmaker Marilyn Minter, and Neville Wakefield,one of Destricted‘s Producers.

8:30 Larry Clark’s Ken Park (2002), a film about the abusive home life of several skateboarders in California. Ken Park’s controversial sexual content has led to the film being banned in Australia and to its very limited distribution in other countries.

See also Comstock’s post, “Me and Destricted go back aways...”

Location: SVA Theatre, 333 West 23 Street, NYC

The event is free and you can RSVP here: http://decencyclausefilm.eventbrite.com/

*Image: Marilyn Minter, still from “Green Pink Caviar,” in Destricted.

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Tony Comstock: The Intent To Arouse: A Concise History Of Sex, Shame And The Moving Image

by Viviane on 09/23/2024

in Events, nyc, Tony Comstock

WHERE: Michelson Theatre, Tisch School of the Arts, 721 Broadway, Room 648

Department of Cinema Studies
Tisch School of the Arts, New York University
A Film Studies Center Special Event

The world is awash in sexualized imagery, but that imagery rarely speaks to or captures the pleasurable reality of sex. Award-winning filmmaker Tony Comstock takes us into the legal and business realities that shape and often warp the sexual imagery we see. Drawing on examples from Hollywood’s history of self-censorship, landmark obscenity cases, and the collision of technology and image-making, Comstock offers an expanded framework for understanding of how what we do and do not see in cinema affects our understanding of our own sexuality

This event is FREE and open to the public.

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Matt and Khym: Better Than Ever

by Domina Doll on 06/28/2024

in comstock films, comstockfilms, erotica, movies

Matt and Khym: Better Than Ever (2007)
Director- Tony Comstock
Studio- Comstock Films
Cast: Matt and Khym

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Tony Comstock does it again with “Matt and Khym: Better Than Ever”.  Although I began reviewing Comstock Films with their latest: “Bill and Desiree” [my review], each film I have seen since then has amazed me.  You would think that using the same formula over and over would get boring, but Comstock’s films are always arousing, intimate and beautiful, and each cast of lovers so diverse that there is always something new to enjoy and experience.  It is the lovers: their different stories, personalities and relationships; that make each Comstock film unique and stand-alone.  And, while you may think, seen one, seen them all, nothing could be further from the truth.

Matt and Khym met with Khym just out of high school and Matt in his early twenties.  Now, in their thirties, they rediscover the sizzle and attraction that first drew them together to find that sex and intimacy are even better than it was before.

Matt and Khym are a very down-to-earth, sweet, compassionate couple.  Not only do they care deeply for each other, they show great kindness to others by populating their home with “strays”.  Because of this they have given up their privacy for many years to shelter others with their love and kindness.  Now, instead of hiding behind closed doors, or having sex in cars, Matt and Khym are free to enjoy their lovemaking openly and rediscover their “2nd Honeymoon.”  They invite you to take “a little peek into their bedroom.”

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What starts off slow and sensual with loving caresses soon heats up into a passionate scene of erotic love.  Matt and Khym’s sex scene is intimate, compelling, sweet and erotic.  What I enjoy most about Comstock films is that the lovemaking is always about mutual pleasure, unlike so many porn films that are focused on male desire only.  The men in Comstock’s films are more interested in deriving their pleasure by giving pleasure to their partners and are gifted at making love.

Matt and Khym say they wanted to do this film to show couples that even after years of marriage you can still reconnect with your partner and renew that sexual intimacy.  They encourage others to make sex and intimacy a priority by continuously feeding it.  Matt and Khym: Better Than Ever, is a pleasure to watch solo and even more special to share with a lover.

Buy Matt and Khym by clicking the link below:

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“Ashley and Kisha: Finding the Right Fit” to play at the NY LGBT Center

by Viviane on 01/06/2024

in Events

ashleykisha Ashley and Kisha: Finding the Right Fit to play at the NY LGBT Center

Where: NYC LGBT Community Center, 208 W.13th St,  NYC, 10011
When: January 23, Reception at 6:30PM, Screening at 7:30PM
Cost: $8 in advance, $10 at the door
Director Tony Comstock will be present
Additional Information

Lesbian Cinema Arts will present a one night only screening of Ashley and Kisha: Finding the Right Fit, Friday evening, January 23, at the New York City LGBT Community Center.

“American filmmaker and sex on screen pioneer Tony Comstock may have invented the best little documentary formula ever: take a couple who are in a committed, loving relationship, and film them in conversation about it, and also the physical conversation they have with each other during sex. What could be more illuminating, educational, erotic, instructive, profound, fascinating, – take your pick. Ashley & Kisha is one of the sweetest love stories you’re ever likely to see committed to film. Tony Comstock has once again put his perfect documentary formula to good use – true love and real sex – on screen; what’s not to like?!” –– Megan Spencer, Film Critic

Ashley and Kisha is the fifth in director Tony Comstock’s award-winning “Real People, Real Life, Real Sex” documentary series. Comstock’s approach to sex, cinema, and love is both disarmingly charming, winning over audiences where ever his films play, and surprisingly controversial, drawing the ire of censors who seem to be mesmerized by the glistening body parts, while remaining stubbornly resistant to the films’ overarching theme of the nourishing power and beauty of sexual love.

Ashley and Kisha was to have had its world premiere at the 2007 Melbourne Underground Film Festival, in Melbourne Australia, but the screening was cancelled when the Australian Office of Film and Literature Classification refused to grant MUFF a festival exemption, and ordered police dispatched to the festival to prevent the film from being shown. A private screening for festival judges resulted in Ashley and Kisha being named Best Foreign Film, and Tony Comstock being named Best Foreign Director.

After the Australian controversy, Ashley and Kisha finally had it’s world premiere at the 2007 Long Beach International LGBT Film Festival in Long Beach, CA, where the film was enthusiastically received by an overflow crowd. From there it travelled to the 2007 Out on Film Atlanta LGBT Film Festival where it again played to a full house. Most recently Ashley and Kisha played as a double feature with Damon and Hunter: Doing it Together at the 2008 Tel Aviv International LGBT Film Festival, but this New York date marks the first time director Tony Comstock will be present for a screening.

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Tony Comstock has been a filmmaker for more than 15 years; produced films on three continents; screened and won awards on four. Topics addressed in his films have included: faith, human rights, disaster relief, and social justice. Most recently he has devoted his energy an to ongoing documentary series subtitled “Real people, Real life, Real sex.” The series addresses issues of sexuality, sexual imagery, censorship, alternative distribution and promotion, and love.

His latest film Bill and Desiree: Love is Timeless (2008) celebrates erotic love in the second half of life, and will have its US Premiere at the Martha Stewart Center for Living at the Mt. Sinai Medical Center in a special screening for faculty and clinicians.

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