Rough/Tender

Rough/Tender is (finally) out on DVD. My first directing credit after a long hiatus (one year and a half, in fact). There's no question in my mind that the DVD market is at death's door. Question is: how long will it stay alive? Likewise, I have no doubt that production values will be back in fashion --eventually. In the early 2000s, amateur porn felt fresh, different, more attuned to the web 'revolution'. A new generation of consumers was brainwashed into equating amateur sex with 'real' sex. Big mistake: because 'amateur' sex is often no less staged and choreographed than the old studios'. Just poorly lit, --for the most part-- conceived, blocked, edited...