 Andrew Blake Releases House Pets
Erotic filmmaker Andrew Blake made one of his infrequent appearances in the DVD market
when House Pets, with AVN Female Performer of the Year Sasha Grey on the cover, went out
to distributors from Studio A Entertainment. Like his 2007 DVDs X and X2 it’s made up of scenes that were
first released on his membership site. But, Blake told AVN, “I’m not sure how
that’s working for us at the moment. We hope people will find it there. But I’m
still leaning toward the physical object.”
Blake’s DVD collections are usually
triggered by his encounters with challenging new women, such as Grey, who appears in over
half of House Pets’ 18 scenes.
“Sasha is just this sexual
creature,” he said. “She’s all sex and a mile wide. For such a young age
she’s very savvy about everything, very smart. Somehow I felt that coming away from
that shoot she felt that I wasn’t using her to her potential sexually, but she did a
great job and I just loved her.”
Also prominent in the mix of solo and
girl-girl scenes is Elena Rivera, Blake’s “muse and nude assistant” for
most of 2007. The other women are Faith Leon, Claire Adams, Courtney Page, Tristan
Kingsley and Cassidey.
As in X—but not in X2—there is
one boy-girl scene, with Cassidey and an uncredited male whose face is not seen. Blake
caught Cassidey while she was “between contracts,” having left Vivid but not yet
signed by Ninn Worx_SR. “She’s a great, sexy girl, not unlike Sasha in her
sexual savvy, but she’s more of a tease and a flirt. I love that about her.”
Blake has found a new muse in 19 year-old
Faye Reagan (formerly Faye Valentine), who’s on the roster of the A List Talent
agency. “Beautiful redhead, natural boobs, just exquisite. I’m going to design a
whole piece around her. I’m going to concentrate on her for a little while and
eventually collect it all into a DVD.”
Blake said he was not “discounting
the website,” but he realizes his core consumers tend to be more object-oriented.
“My audience is not twentysomething. They’re more educated, older, mostly
male, who appreciate the beauty of the woman as opposed to just wham bam thank you
ma’am.
“My style is evolving. I’m
looking to possibly go into the fine arts business. That’s something I’ve had on
my mind for a long time but I wasn’t sure how to do it.”
The idea crystallized when he released
X2, calling it “Cinema Abstract.” He would do “one of a kind pieces that
would be released in editions of—I don’t know how many—as site-specific
video installation pieces, in homes. There’s lots of people that collect this, that
have a lot of money.”
Blake has become increasingly
disheartened by having to deal with piracy of his product. “The minute you release it
it’s all over the place, illegally. That’s why I think that for me, to have a
new revenue stream in the fine arts world, which I have a pretty good connection with
right now… we’ll see how that goes, and just try to do pieces that will be
collectible.”
He shoots his scenes (always on Super-16
film) “on multi-day shoots, every now and then, probably two or three times a month.
I think that gives the whole thing much more diversity than if I went out and shot
consecutively for eight days or whatever. Faye Reagan will be my next subject.”
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