 Ethan Kane Navigates Through Ice and The
Surreal World - Adult DVD
Posted: 5:00 am PDT 2007-02-06
Up-and-coming director Ethan Kane — nominated for two AVN Awards this year in
recognition of his skill behind the camera (Best Director – Non-Feature for the
Digital Sin title Game and Director of the Year) — has just expanded his oeuvre with
two new releases, Ice and The Surreal World.
Both incorporating Kane's ultra-slick production veneer, the titles are nonetheless quite
disparate in terms of their look and style. While Ice, a New Sensations project, is lush,
opulent and highly art-directed, Surreal World, released through New Sensations' sister
imprint Greedy, is an MTV-style reality porn effort. Half of Surreal and the entirety of Ice were shot in Budapest, where
Kane told AVN.com he sees a lot of advantages to bringing his productions, not the least
of which being the amount of bang he can get out of his buck there.
"Over there, the resources that
are available to you are 10 times more than they are over here, and they cost a hundred
times less," he explained. "If I can go over there and shoot a movie for the
same price as I do over here, then my movie is going to look like it cost three times as
much. And they have a great talent pool when it comes to women."
With Surreal World, Kane utilized said
talent pool in a way not commonly seen: Depicting them socializing and just being
themselves, a la Shane's World.
"It's amazing," Kane
commented. "These girls are college educated, full-time job, they're brilliant, but
they just don't make enough money, so they do porn to make extra money. But when you hang
out with them, they're so funny, and a lot of them speak English; so we're hanging out
with these girls and I said, 'We happen to be sitting here having a barbecue, why not just
capture all this?'
Ice, on the other hand, goes the polar
opposite direction from the reality aesthetic, painting an abstract, fictional portrait
of, as Kane described it, "a wealthy man who's achieved everything that he's wanted
to achieve monetarily, and now has realized that despite having all these material things,
he's not satisfied. He still is longing for something that's missing in his life. And he
realizes that his greatest asset is being able to manipulate people and situations, and
get people to do things that they normally wouldn't do."
Though he said the movie does have
some voiceover narration, Kane professed that, "I try to tell the story through
visuals. I take the story and develop a mood, and develop a look and a style that
resembles that, and through a minimal amount of words and a minimal amount of acting, tell
that same story. Almost like poetry."
The poetry of Ice and the prose of The
Surreal World can be found in stores now.
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