Take a Chance on Me; Interview with Courtney Trouble, Part 3
By Misty • Jun 26th, 2009 • Category: Blog
On the eve of the release of Courtney Trouble’s first full length DVD – Roulette, we asked her wife and partner (in work and life) to do an interview with her so we could get to know her a little bit better!
What follows (Continued from Part 1 and Part 2) is part 3 of an intimate and personal in-depth interview with Courtney Trouble:
What is your next project?
My next movie is called Nostalgia. It’s a tale about me and my wife having a hot date night in, watching porn. We love to watch classic porn, but for some reason all of our classic porn has been changed, it’s now queer and feminist. Each scene in the movie has been inspired by a different movie, like Behind the Green Door, Devil In Miss Jones, Deep Throat, Babylon Pink. These were some of the first porn films I’ve ever seen and they really shaped my outlook on sex as art, more so than anything else really. I thought it would be fun to take controversial scenes from these old movies and make them queer, fresh, and feminist. It’s got lots of porn stars like April Flores (fattyd.com), Kimberly Kane (KaneArmy.com), Madison Young (MadisonBound.com), Jiz Lee (JizLee.com), Syd Blakovich (SydBlakovich.com) – as well as a lot of newcomers to porn. I really love working with fresh faces, there’s a sense of realism that you can’t get anywhere else. It should be out by the end of the summer through Reel Queer Productions.
What was it like starting out with Roulette, to working on your second film?
The two movies were made completely different from day one. Roulette was the movie I made with the money I could find. Nostalgia was produced by Reel Queer Productions, and I was able to have a larger budget. Also, I shot Roulette over the course of three years, whereas with Nostalgia I shot in two days. Nostalgia has one storyline and a focus, whereas Roulette is meant to be a collection of different stories told over time, a real look into real people’s sex lives.
With Roulette, it was all about fun and art, it was an underground experiment. When I shot “gangbang,” my favorite scene from Roulette, I had no idea how big Jiz Lee and Syd Blakovich would get in the porn world. Looking forward, I plan to keep that sense of fun and artistic enthusiasm strong in my work. It’s what I’m known for, and it’s what I’m good at.
Images and stills from Roulette
Do you have any projects besides making your films and NoFauxxx.Com?
I work as a freelance web designer and graphic designer. This summer I am focusing heavily on working with Homo A Go Go, a queer music/arts/film festival that I truly believe in. I’m currently looking for diy and lo-fi sex tapes to put in their diy porno showcase (check out www.courtneytrouble.com/haggsextapes for more info) Also, I’ve launched a website called RealQueerPorn.Com – which will be an online database of queer films, porn stars, directors, websites, and academic work that I will be updating in my free time along with some awesome interns.
So, who is putting out Roulette?
Reel Queer Productions is a new production company putting out edgy & authentic queer porn. Roulette will actually be the first of many amazing films to come out on this line. I am so happy to be working with them, because they are both big and mainstream-oriented, but still so very sex-positive and indie-friendly at the same time. I love that my films are connected to a company that puts safety, education, and pleasure for everyone at the top of their list.
I’m not trying to make porn for women, porn for men, porn for queers. I’m just making my porn, with the hopes that anybody could pick up my film and find something they like.
Starting this relationship with Reel Queer Productions has allowed me to further explore the world of making high-quality artistic queer porn in the sense that I’ve been able to invest more time and money into my work and allowing me to reach more people. They’ve given me a very strong support system, and they encourage me to make that highly-artistic, unique, authentic, and fantastical porn that I want to make. They have given me the freedom to take an idea and run with it, they don’t question my intentions – they don’t want me to fall into a niche. In contrast, we are working together to make “queer porn” a real niche on its own.
Misty >> Since starting at Good Vibrations in 2003, Misty has worn many hats. Starting in sales she brought her queer sensibilities (2nd generation!!) to the merchandising department in 2005 and continues to branch out into different parts of the company. Fiercely femme, she enjoys wearing tight clothes, screening queer porn, getting her nails done, spending time with monsters and changing the world one day at a time.
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