Lesbian Pussy Worship

My personal jury is still out on porn actress turned highly personal director Dana Vespoli: is she the new Fassbinder or merely ego-tripping. Then again, RWF was among cinema's most accomplished ego-trippers so perhaps that holds the answer.

in her LESBIAN PUSSY WORSHIP, Dana tests the limits of her art, injecting herself into the feature in disturbing ways. It definitely turned me off, but I suspect her fan base will be turned on.

Only the fourth segment is truly controversial, but throughout Dana displays a ruthlessness not usually associated with the very popular Lesbian porn genre. I have witnessed a similar tendency in the work of Madison Young, also directing for the FiIlly Films label, though both she and Vespoli hail from mainstream porn in their acting careers (having made videos for the doyenne of the genre, Nica Noelle).

Program is shot in a cinema verite style -hand-held first-person camera often with no second camera or obvious editing - sort of a house trademark of Filly Films regardless of who's directing. I vastly prefer the traditional cinematic approach relying on reverse shots and scenes broken up to aid pacing, and Dana is perfectly capable of going that route too, as evidenced in her innumerable assignments for Sweet Sinner.

Opening vignette has Dana on screen as a photographer snapping wide-open shots of Anikka Albrite's vagina. Sex that follows has Dana the dom, giving Albrite a workout but nothing to write home about.

Next she interviews Taylor Vixen, with idiotic pussy-centric questions eliciting equally dumb answers, e.g., Taylor: "I haven't had a bad pussy yet". Then Taylor humps Lyla Storm, with emphasis on a vibrator. Dana from behind the camera joins in the action.

Third segment features Presley Hart relaxing on a couch, and Dana stresses foot fetishism. Beisdes her voice-over, the auteur uses a glass dildo on Presley, using low angles to keep the pussy as center of attention on screen. Vespoli becomes directly involved in the sex action in a satisfying vignette.

Finale went way over the line for me, as Dana presents blonde newcomer Natasha Voya in bondage, tied by rope to a railing. In strictly clinical fashion, Vespoli personally works over the hapless girl, inserting a speculum in her vagina (and wishing out loud that she had a flashlight to see inside). She unties Voya, pushes her around and then humps her with a strap-on dildo.

After this violent session we hear a male voice (jarringly) from off-screen, presumably that of the video's exec producer Dion Giarusso. This cues an unexpected inclusion of material usually segregated into a "Making of" featurette, as we see not only the preparations for the scene (tying Voya to the railing in the first place) but a strange follow-up where Natasha reveals she's never had such a large object as the dildo inside her, and Vespoli apologizes profusely to the girl for her thoughtlessness. What's up with that? And since when (Phil Prince in the early '80s aside) is a gynecological speculum exam entertainment?