{"id":2506,"date":"2020-03-04T12:48:28","date_gmt":"2020-03-04T12:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.geek.com\/featured\/-1819800\/"},"modified":"2020-03-04T12:48:28","modified_gmt":"2020-03-04T12:48:28","slug":"pornhub-premieres-first-non-adult-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/wordpress\/index.php\/2020\/03\/04\/pornhub-premieres-first-non-adult-film\/","title":{"rendered":"Pornhub Premieres First Non-Adult Film"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“Shakedown” (via Leilah Weinraub)<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

Adult entertainment site Pornhub is expanding its repertoire with the premiere of <\/span>Shakedown<\/span><\/i>\u2014its first non-erotic film.<\/span><\/p>\n

The documentary by conceptual artist Leilah Weinraub is screening this month via pornhub.com\/art\/shakedown<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

“<\/span>Shakedown<\/span><\/i> 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<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

“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.”<\/span><\/p>\n

An experimental film, <\/span>Shakedown<\/span><\/i> (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.<\/span><\/p>\n

Not that unlike Pornhub’s usual portfolio. Just with fewer penises, I’d imagine.<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span><\/p>\n

The dedicated screening page also features a series of live chats with Weinraub, meant to simulate the experience of watching <\/span>Shakedown<\/span><\/i> together\u2014even when you’re alone.<\/span><\/p>\n

“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<\/a> <\/span>Variety<\/span><\/i>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span><\/p>\n

“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 <\/span>Variety<\/span><\/i>. “For us, premiering a feature-length film is a first. We’re very excited about it.”<\/span><\/p>\n

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