Comstock Films has been creating some of the most interesting offbeat porn around. Their last title, Xana & Dax: When Opposites Attract followed what should be a tried-and-true video-erotica format, because it's so damn effective: interview scenes spliced with hardcore sex. It's a similar structure to the one Blowfish used for its Friends & Lovers, with one important difference: director Tony "TC" Comstock prefers to focus on a single couple for the length of an entire feature. The resulting video portrait feels bizarrely intimate, especially since the sexual scenes feel so strangely natural, disarming, and hot.

Both Xana and Comstock's first release, Marie & Jack were about straight couples; Damon & Hunter, shot on film, is about the relationship between two gay men. In choosing this feature, you might think that TC may be torpedoing his chances for mainstream distribution -- mixing gay & straight content just isn't done in Porn Valley. But if you spend any time reading his blog, you'll walk away with the sense that he doesn't so much give a flying fuck. In that sense, Damon & Hunter goes to a brave place, a place unsullied by the ringing of 818 cell phones and the clickety-clack of stiletto heels.

Then he goes on to say the sort of things young film makers day-dream about someone writing about their work, closing with a couple of lines that you don't ever dare day-dream about:

Comstock Films releases...work as social documentation, education, exploration, inspiration, titillation -- and porn.

In other words: Comstock films has set out to create fine art that you can wank to -- hardcore porn that satisfies brain and boner both. With all three of their releases so far, they've succeeded magnificently.

To read the rest of Thomas Roche's very nice review, click here

Comstock Films:Real Life, Real People, Real Sex

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