May 30 2006
Metro Releases David Aaron Clark
Anthologies Adult DVD
Posted:6:00 am PDT 2006-05-30
Metro, in conjunction with Video Teams Ethnicity Films, has announced the
release of two new anthologies from director David Aaron Clark. The first, the two-disc Dreaming
of Snow: the Best of David Aaron Clarks Existential Azn-Girl Gonzo, compiles
re-edited versions of his favorite gonzo scenes. It is available now.
I relished the chance to go back and hone these scenes, said Clark. In
some cases, I just sweetened the skin tones and tightened the cuts, while others I did
major overhauls. This is surely the definitive, state-of-the-art Clark gonzo collection,
for what thats worth. Clark shot, edited and scored the music for all of his titles. He even went as
far as doing all the box cover and inset artwork for both compilations. I majored in
Art in college, said Clark, and had a ball creating the artwork for these two
releases.
The seven-hour-plus Metro Interactive
premium collection draws its material from Clarks various gonzo lines during his
ongoing tenure at Video Team. Included are moments from his Azn Super Idols series
as well the Banana Cream Pie line. Also included are some of the best moments from
Clarks 2003 title K-Pop.
The compilation features performances
by starlets like Sabrine Maui, Cris Taliana, Annie Cruz, and Kylie Rey demonstrating the
sexiest way to make a banana split with chocolate syrup. Other Asian starlets served up
include Kammy, Tami Lynn, Mila Yung, Veronica Lynn, Shailee and amateur gangbang girl,
Heidi Ho.
Ethnicity Films is the home of
Davids most personal work, so it made sense to offer this career retrospective now,
said Metros Christian Mann. The two sets combine for 14 hours, so theres
no shortage of material, especially with new versions and never-before-seen footage.
Davids passion is Asian
women, directed in a way that is unlike anything else in hardcore.
Clark told AVN.com that he has a much
more in-your-face gonzo style than when he first started in the late 90s. I
was very influenced by the original Evil Angel lineup of directors, said Clark,
and going back through it, I found that my earlier gonzo work had a more muscular
and commercial feel to it.
It was a very long process to
pick the scenes for this one, he continued. I made some scenes much shorter,
and played a couple of them out longer. And even though its gonzo, theres a
definite through-line running through it all
forming one, long narrative.
While Dreaming of Snow
highlights Clarks gonzo style, Metros second volume, Chasing Angels: the
Best of David Aaron Clarks Delirious Asian-Girl Erotica, features a
representation of his surreal erotica.
Clark told AVN.com that he
restructured and re-edited two discs worth of material into five separate narrative
features starring a collection of Asian actresses. The collection opens with Asia Noir:
Restless Dreams of Jade Spirits, which combines scenes and characters from Clarkes
Asia Noir series into one narrative. The two-hour-plus movie features Loni,
Charmane Star, Lucy Lee, Kylie Rey, Jade-Blue Eclipse, Luci Thai and Lacey Tom as ghosts
haunting series hero Mr. Marcus, now confined to a sanitarium.
Rounding out the first disc is an
hour-long episode in Clarks ongoing Asianatrix series, featuring Lucy Lee.
The second disc kicks off with Four
Romantic Narratives, a quartet of stand-alone scenes including Cool White Light
featuring Chai Sun and Mr. Marcus in what Clark calls his single favorite scene
ever.
Closing out the collection is a
100-minute feature Sappho Flambierte, an Asian girl/girl title starring one of
Clarks signature actresses, Filipina Loni, who portrays a professional dominatrix.
Also included in the package are the
original trailers for Asia Noir 1-3, photo galleries of all the girls, and
liner notes on the inside cover an essay entitled Chasing Angels: Love and
Theft in the Pornographic Oeuvre of David Aaron Clark, by internet porn critic
Skronker.
Im just happy to give
people the chance to see this work in its best possible light, said Clark. If
someone is ever going to like my work, its going to be with these two compilations.
Dreaming of Snow and Chasing
Angels represent a lot of care and effort in creating the perfect collectors set
for fans of DACs work, said Mann. The cover, designed by DAC and
packaged in clear cases, is a two-sided sheet that shows through the inside so the
customer can read the extensive liner notes written by [AVN Senior Editor] Jared
Rutter.
Dreaming of Snow is now
available and Chasing Angels is slated to hit the street at the end of July.
Clark began directing adult in 1998
when he moved to Los Angeles, after a 10-year career in New York City highlighted by
publishing four novels, producing two albums with his now-defunct band, FalseVirgins, and
authoring a graphic novel series. He has directed features for companies ranging from
Extreme Associates to Vivid Video.
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