Another tease, the first from last February's Bay Area shoot:
Barely out of their teens when they first got together, Matt and Khym spent many years generously taking of others instead of concentrating on themselves. Now in their thirties, Matt and Khym have taken the time to rediscover the joys of married life and married sex. In this clip, Khym and Matt talk about their first encounter and their first impression of each other, and Khym reveals a surprising secret...
You know, I appreciate your approach and this presentation of Matt and Khym has a nice quality, but why the hell do I have to see pictures of Hunter and the other dude when I log on to your site? Can't you put those films under their own category so those that want to see that can go there?
For some reason, Quicktime keeps saying that I need an additional download to play it, but all I get it a white screen even after it installs the software.
It's the same way for me with all your trailers. The embedded player I use just doesn't stream the data correctly for some reason. The same engine plays the locally stored file just fine. I tried using another engine, and that worked fine. [scratching head]
I don't know what's different about streaming from your server, as opposed from the other servers where it usually works fine. No biggie.
I doubt DB is running the same system I am, but I figured it might still help to view the movie locally.
Lighting is much better in this one. Lightyears ahead? ::groan::
Are you going for a stronger voyeuristic feel with the rounded black corners in the sex bits?
When I turned up the volume to verify the source of the whirring , my sub-woofer got quite a workout. Was there a draft, or was someone breathing heavily into the microphone?
BTW, did you actually get a mail from someone, complaining about the straight porn interfering with the gay experience?
I had an errant activeX tag on this morning's blog post. If that's were you're getting the weird behaivior, that might be the cause. It should be fixed now.
Though it's been a long time coming, this film of ours is really turning out nicely. We're just putting the last touches on the authoring, and at the same time doing a 10 bit 4:2:2 conform.
I had to find a new vender to do the SDI transfer from the Digibeta tapes from the telecine session to harddisc, and was a little nervous about how they would react to the material. But there was no need. As soon as they saw how beautiful you two looked together, the "dirty movie, har har har" stopped cold. They completely got what we were going for, and then asked "how come more people aren't making movies like this?"
Thanks Daniel, but as I said in another forum, once we got the lights adjusted and the cameras set to the right f-stop, we just tried to stay out of Matt and Khym's way while we tried to keep up! When you have something so special happening in front of your camera, the best approach is to (try to) make sure you don't ruin it!
Matt and Khym's love story spans nearly two decades. They met in 1987, when Khym was just 18 and a virgin, and Matt was 21. 18 years later, it was our privilege to spend a morning with them, and get their story on film. Coming in at just over 52 minutes, the film is both expansive and intimate.
Drawn from nearly 20 years of memories, the interview is full of laughs and tenderness, and (thanks to Kiko Martin's wonderful cinematography) the lovemaking looks just like what it is, a lazy Sunday morning romp, enveloped in gentle Sunday morning light. I've never seen on-screen sex that looks like this; the truth is, I don't think anyone else has either.
The technical aspects of this film are as unique as the story. Matt and Khym's lovemaking was shot on Super16 film (Kodak Vision 200T, if you're curious.) To match the frame-rate of the film, the interview was recorded on 24P video equipment.
The film was transferred and color corrected by New York City's Magno Sound and Video using a proprietary frame for frame telecine process (completely eliminating 3:2 pulldown from the image chain) that I developed expressly for my erotic filmmaking.
The resulting film and video footage was conformed in 4:4:4 HD and the DVD is a pure 24P MPEG stream, anamorphic presentation that subjects the film to the minimum of compression possible on a DVD. The result is a luminous rendering of a beautiful love story.
There's a deceptive intimacy generated by any media production -- it's the same sort of connection one feels with the characters in any successful work of art, which is why so many of us fantasize sexually about Jennifer Anniston or Russell Crowe or Jenna Jameson. With Matt & Khym, as with Comstock's other films, that intimacy is profoundly different from your average erotic flick. Watching it, like making it, is a revolutionary act, because the film doesn't set out to create a fantasy; it's the eroticism of everyday life that Matt & Khym is after, and it gets hold of it with wet, hot, cuddly abandon, and never lets go.
DVDs are now on their way to everyone who pre-ordered, or who ordered in the last couple of weeks. Anyone who purchased the should received e-mail with a USPS tracking number. If you haven't, get in touch with us and we'll figure out what's up.
Thanks to everyone for their patience and support. By way of apology along with your DVD we've enclosed a electronic coupon for $5 off your next purchase from Comstock films.
While your waiting, you might enjoy this podcast (with Professor P and Sweettits) review of Jack the Zipper's BLACK LIGHT BEAUTIES and our own MATT AND KHYM: BETTER THAN EVER
The say MATT AND KHYM is "the perfect couples film." Yay!
The review for BLB comes first. The review for MATT AND KHYM is about half way into the show. I got a nice laugh hearing Sweet Tits recounting my cold call!
Thanks again for giving me and Peggy the time to make a film we're very proud of. We hope like it too!
Billl and Desiree were super fun to watch and talk to. Bill read a love poem that he wrote for Desiree and it made both Peggy and our make-up artist cry! Maybe by the end of the year. Whenever, it will be worth the wait.
Bill and Desiree are probably the most at ease and playful of any of the couples that we've shot so far. My primary recollection of shooting them was that there was a lot of quiet giggling and knowing smiles.
At the time we filmed, Bill was in his early/mid sixties and Desiree was in her late forties. Both of them were, by any standard, good looking, and all the more so as an "older" couple.
Ashley & Kisha is coming together more easily than any film I've ever worked on. It's as if it wants to be a move. I should have a rough cut by the end of the week and I will probabably be doing color work by the end of next week.
Of the four films we have in post, right now I'm leaning towards tackling Bill & Desire next!