EROTICA: A JOURNEY INTO FEMALE SEXUALITY

Erotica is an evocative, sensuous, celebratory and, at times, dark journey through the female erotic imagination. This feature-length film goes behind the scenes with ten different women who reveal their inner fantasy lives and expose their most intimate secrets for the camera. Creating provocative films, photographs, performances and stories, they express their eroticism artistically as well as personally. Produced, directed and edited by women, and shot with an all-female crew, this documentary explores the range and variety of "the female gaze", from the sadomasochistic rituals of a Parisian dominatrix, to the San Francisco lesbian nightclub scene, and tells the true story behind one of the most enduring erotic novels of this century. Providing an exclusive interview with Pauline Rιage, the mysterious author of "Histoire d'O", Erotica also features French dominatrix Jeanne de Berg, celebrity porn-star-turned-filmmakers Annie Sprinkle and Candida Royalle, renowned photographers Bettina Rheims and Phyllis Christopher, and others. Erotica tells the story of these women, how their personal and professional lives merge, revealing the struggles and conflicts that they, like many women, have encountered, thereby illuminating the complex nature of female sexuality and its place in our ever-changing society.