TRIPTYCHON 8

HardWerk Presents

WHERE VIRTUAL TURNS VISCERAL...

Conceptualized in accordance with their details-led-by-desire ethos, HardWerk's latest release was born out of lead performer Lucy Huxley's own personal gangbang wish list, so creating a customized scenario truer to the film's plot than you'd think. The film plays out in a subversive sci-fi vision of the future where men have died out and their semen is the latest commodity. For the filmmakers, it's a teasing role-reversal in which rough sex, facials and swallowing, traditionally viewed as objectifying women, instead turn men into little more than fantasy fodder and cum dispensers for a privileged princess. Whether utopian or dystopian is left for you to decide?

HardWerk Presents

PAIN MEANS THAT IT MATTERS.?

True to form ? and perhaps even truer to non-binary lead performer Neen Sever ? the third instalment of HardWerk?s hybrid gang bang/interview series Ask Me is more than an invitation, it?s a provocation: ask me, challenge me, expose me, make me. For the filmmakers, collaborating with Neen revealed new possibilities for the format, the result a ?gonzo-meets-psychotherapy? exploration of identity and interest, where verbal communication is paralleled in visceral expression during a vividly intense industrial gang bang. As the cameras are turned on Neen, first under a leaden Berlin sky and later in the radiance of hot lights, flushed skin, burning handprints and undivided desire, the film finds its playground in the intersection between intellect and instinct, between the psyche and the physical, between ego and alter.

HardWerk Presents

LOOK AT ME...

Inspired by the sexploitation films of Russ Meyers and Michelangelo Antonioni’s Blow Up (1966), HardWerk’s latest gang bang is a slow burning subversion of cinematic tropes that finds the carnal in the camp and the sumptuous in the sleaze. For her first ever gang bang and first facial on film, lead performer Maria Riot and the filmmakers reimagined the figure of the bossy (and generally male) photographer with a much-needed shift on the gender axis, so allowing Maria to take the lead in quite literally staging her own fantasy. Here, the line between object, subject and artist can become blurred; men in all their exaggerated machismo can become eager playthings, and the directive cannot go unheeded: look at me.

HardWerk Presents

CORPORAL PUNISHMENT, CORPOREAL BLISS

We are led – and almost literally so, leash and all, as lead performer Kleopatra appears blindfolded onscreen – into the second installment of HardWerk’s Triptychon series by the ring of a bell, the creak of an old wooden school desk, a nervous lick of the lips and three waiting figures. Hanging in the air with it all: anticipation, intention, veneration. It’s not for nothing that the filmmakers have adopted a slower pace for this intense gangbang – there’s a meditative quality to the echoing spanks and answering whimpers, to the push and the pull, to effortless dance of desire between the four participating performers; an absolute presence of mind and an absolute presence of flesh. As with the previous Triptychon film, the composition finds its own seamless choreography across multiple perspectives, so creating stunning juxtapositions between pain and pleasure; between a hand tightened around a throat and the easy laughter in each moment of disarming tenderness; between the polish of ‘pre’ and the primal of ‘right now’…

HardWerk Presents

A FORMULA FOR FANTASY

Chapter III of HardWerk?s Triptychon series delivers on the numbers in lead performer Sulema Vasquez?s first ever gang bang: three cocks slowly roused to rapt attention during a tender bondage session; a screen split into one, two and three perspectives, infinite nuances, a singular desire; and one rigger and several lengths of rope to bind it all together. But ? as this format proves once more, this time in its most languid and meditative installment yet ? a gang bang is not math but alchemy. Where attention should be divided, pleasure is instead multiplied, where the pace slows down, intensity ? intent itself ? is heightened, and where twists of knots should restrict and restrain, each whisper of rope over skin speaks of something liberated, something sensual and something sacred.

HardWerk Presents

DEEP DARK DANCE

As the saying goes, ‚good things come in threes’. Such is the spirit of HardWerk’s Triptychon series, the format inspired by the classical triptych format that allows for a new perspective on porn viewing without missing an angle. After the first trilogy of Triptychons, the first instalment of the second trilogy brings us the rawness and dark aesthetics of Berlin sex clubs by choice of leading performer Jasko Fide, who desired fishnets in her first-ever gangbang. The roughness and kinkiness of this encounter are only contested by the palpable intimacy and connection of all the participants, accompanied by a live recorded soundtrack by artist Sky Deep. Triptychon IV is the darkroom where classic art meets its divine perversion.