RISING 2021 Podcast •
Deep Throat Drive-In with Annie Sprinkle and Sandi Sissel
Female agency in the golden years of pornography
featuring Annie Sprinkle and Sandi Sissel
In 1983, Sandi Sissel was behind the camera filming sex workers in a legal brothel in Nevada. Annie Sprinkle was at the frontier of America’s golden era of porn. Decades later, Sissel’s prolific career as a filmmaker and Sprinkle’s Ecosexual life as an activist intertwine in a conversation about sex work, the porn industry, female agency, Deep Throat and deepthroating.
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Episode Credits:
Created by Litmus Media
Producer: Mahmood Fazal
Editor and Associate Producer: Eugene Yang
Mastering Engineer: Geoffrey O’Connor
Music: Dan Luscombe
Additional Music: Sandi Sissel (Chicken Ranch) and Epidemic Music
Deep Throat Drive-In at RISING 2021
Sandi Sissel with Willoh Weiland and James Brennan
Buckle up for an intimate night of cinema at Dromana Drive-In.
On the way down the highway a voice comes over your car radio. Deep Throat’s taken over the station and they’re going to school, scare and guide you beyond the cinematic male gaze. They have some avenging to do.
Deep Throat Drive-In—devised by celebrated cinematographer Sandi Sissel with Willoh Weiland and James Brennan—is a rewilding of the drive-in space. It journeys through Sandi’s forty year career in journalism and film, examines misogyny tropes and affirms non-binary and gender diverse bodies in cinema.
Australian goth meets Hollywood kitsch in a night of classic cars, monstrous performers, speaker stacks and back-seat make outs. Order up buckets of popcorn and let Deep Throat lead you into what can best be described as a live and recut, sex-positive night at the flicks.
Visit the RISING website for more information on Deep Throat Drive-In.
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RISING is a major cultural event for the Asia Pacific Region, created by a diverse team of local, national and international artists and curators. RISING will begin on the evening of the total lunar eclipse in May 2021. Interlocking circles of experience and connection will radiate through the night, as the city re-synchronises and is re-energised with public art, performance and music spanning the emerging and iconic, the epic and intimate. The inaugural festival will take place 26 May – 6 June 2021 in the heart of Melbourne. The full program is available at www.rising.melbourne
