Adult entertainment site Pornhub is expanding its repertoire with the premiere of Shakedown—its first non-erotic film.
The documentary by conceptual artist Leilah Weinraub is screening this month via pornhub.com/art/shakedown.
“Shakedown explores themes of race, class, currency, and identity through the lens of Weinraub’s boundary-breaking vision,” Corey Price, vice president of Pornhub, said in a statement.
“We’re investing in celebrating artists and visionaries like Leilah and in sharing diverse narratives of human pleasure and sexuality,” he continued. “We are so excited to share her work with a wider public audience for the very first time.”
An experimental film, Shakedown (not to be confused with the 1988 crime action movie starring Peter Weller and Sam Elliott) chronicles an early-aughts underground Los Angeles black lesbian owned-and-operated strip club.
Not that unlike Pornhub’s usual portfolio. Just with fewer penises, I’d imagine.
Weinraub reportedly chose the pornography website as a partner for the movie’s online release “with the intention that the film be seen and made openly accessible to a wide audience” before its placement in an arts institution.
The dedicated screening page also features a series of live chats with Weinraub, meant to simulate the experience of watching Shakedown together—even when you’re alone.
“There’s a cool opportunity right now to present films in the art space, there’s more openness to diversity and content, and a different sort of storytelling,” Weinraub told Variety.
The film is scheduled for release this spring on Dis.Art and Criterion Channel, and over the summer via Le Cinema Club, Boiler Room, and iTunes.
It has previously screened at the 2017 Whitney Biennial, 68th Berlin International Film Festival, Tate Modern, MoMA PS1, and Weinraub’s first solo show at Gavin Brown’s Enterprise in New York.
“This film is part of a larger general commitment Pornhub has to supporting the arts. We want to be seen as a platform that artists and creators can use,” according to brand director Alex Klein, as reported by Variety. “For us, premiering a feature-length film is a first. We’re very excited about it.”
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