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Eon McKai: Art School Smut
While the casual viewer might argue that all roads in the adult
entertainment business have been explored, there are still some
trailblazers in the business trying to make things interesting again.
Chief among them is Eon McKai [web site], kingpin of the nascent
alt.porn genre. As Jonathan Marlow interrupts him in the midst of
editing his latest, Neu Wave Hookers, the two discuss the history of
the industry and the introduction, only twelve months ago, of a whole
new style of adult filmmaking.
You have a film degree, which is unusual in this business. Where did
you go to school?
I'll never say!
It's a secret.
It's a secret. I've got a master's degree in film from a real film
school. I also went to art school, too.
Which was, at least in part, an inspiration for your first adult
feature, Art School Sluts. There are a few scenes in the film that
were inspired by real incidents?
There's a lot of real stuff in there. There's also a send up of
filmmaker and artist Morgan Fischer - that scene where she was taking
photographs and then you're watching them develop. I guess you kind of
insert your personality in-between the sex scenes when you make a
feature.
You came to VCA with this idea?
Absolutely.
What made you decide to go with them?
I've always been interested in adult film and it just seemed like an
interesting way to have a job and do something fun. I know that's
really basic, but that's just how I'm feeling right now. I ask myself,
too, "Why did I start doing this?" I guess it's a lot of fun. It
really is. With VCA, I snuck in at a time when things were in turmoil
and some people gave me a shot - Wit Maverick and Antonio Passolini,
and I got a help from Jane Hamilton (Veronica Hart) and Jim Malibu. I
got to hang out on their sets and see how they did it. Now I'm coming
up with my own way to do it but that was basically my way into VCA.
They were pretty nervous about the idea at first. You know, alt.porn
hadn't really been tried on video. You had goth stuff, that's all
anybody knew. Their only frame of reference to anything I was doing
was goth. I would just kind of nod and say, "Just trust me." It seemed
to work, though.
Was music also pushing you in this direction? In addition to a
different look for your actors, the sound in your film is obviously
quite distinct. You use emo, drum and bass...
Yeah, absolutely. I have a lot of experimental stuff, a lot of
breakcore and higher caliber stuff from real people. In Neu Wave
Hookers, we're getting an almost all electro soundtrack with people
like Dirty Sanchez and Electrocute, Gold Chains - you're from San
Francisco, are you familiar with Gold Chains?
Vaguely.
Gold Chains is on the soundtrack. Topher [Lafata] was actually one of
the first people I approached because he made records with dirty
lyrics. Gold Chains was by himself just talking about ass and pussy in
an ironic, hip-hop way. Then, when he started doing stuff with his
backup singer, Sue Cie, their last record they did together was all
about being in a relationship and sex and stuff like that. I thought
it was pretty interesting, so it'd be good to put into a porno movie.
I read your piece with Joanna [Angel] where she said we were such
buddies. We really are good friends. We stuck together through some
shit during the last year and we think the same way. I believe there
will be more and more people who'll get into what we do, the more we
fly the flag that we're making these kind of movies.
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