Operation, the Infrared porn

Friend Brenda gave me a copy of this very *odd* infrared porn that I'll be taking to Burning Man and letting the video guys incorporate into their VJ sets.

story here

"Smart, sexy, beautiful Gina Velour is the star of The Operation, an independent short film which won an award at the 1995 Chicago Underground Film Festival. Shot entirely in eerie, otherworldly black-and-white infrared video, it's the story of a very intimate encounter between a surgeon and her patient. Outspoken, articulate, and possessed of a great sense of humor, head surgeon Gina Velour shares her thoughts on erotica, feminism, and how cold an operating room can be.

       

Donna Jagela: Not only were you the star and heard of the medical team in The Operation, you were involved with every step of the film's creative process---you worked on the story boarding, you were involved in the set design, the costumes and post-production. You were there for everything. AND you got to have hot sex on screen! How did you get so lucky?

Gina Velour: It was the best of both worlds! I've been lovers with the Otto Wrek character for several years. We'd never been in an erotic film before. We started with this idea that we wanted to be photographed together, kissing, but we wanted to be photographed via x-ray, thinking it would look really weird and really cool. But we scrapped that idea because it would have been a really unsafe, unhealthy thing to do. And then, out of the blue, we had to access to this infrared camera and decided to make a film together. It was story-boarded and put together literally overnight! There was no time to think about the pros and cons. Here's this camera, no one else is going to be in a film like this for us, so it has to be us in the film!

It was a very small crew, only about five people on the set including Otto and me. And I did handle a lot-set dressings, costumes, and more. It was such a small crew that everybody had huge jobs. "