Fred Halsted’s L.A. Plays Itself + Sex Garage

PFFB classics, US, 90 min.

By: Fred Halsted

Alongside Wakefield Poole, Fred Halsted (1941-1989) counts as one of the premier auteur voices of hardcore gay pornography from the Golden Age of Porn. But while the former would produce dreamier, more surreal works, Halsted’s films firmly occupied the harder, hyper-masculine territory and with the aim of being transgressive. Leather jackets, tight blue jeans, big dicks and plenty of machinery at hand, his episodic films show the gamut of gay male sexuality from vanilla sex to hardcore fisting, yet with a distinctly artistic sensibility. This year, the Pornfilmfestival Berlin is proud to present two of Halsted’s classics, “L.A. Plays Itself” and “Sex Garage”, the only gay porn films in the permanent collection of New York’s Museum of Modern Art, to a new audience.

Walter Crasshole

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