![]() I became fascinated with this alternative history of Hollywood that nobody ever talked about or looked at. All of them were, in the years leading up to hardcore, making these very interesting, strange, different types of films. Seeing those kinds of films led me into sexploitation filmmakers like Doris Wishman or Michael and Roberta Findlay. ![]() I was always taken with genre cinema and exploitation films from filmmakers like Ed Woods and Hershel Horton. Gillani Peets : How did you get into cinema, and then into gay adult cinema?Įlizabeth Purchell : I think I have well-rounded tastes. Purchell joined Gillani Peets for a conversation about the processes behind her filmmaking and research. In her program for Anthology Film Archives, “‘Ask Any Buddy’ and The Golden Age of All-Male Adult Cinema,” Purchell explores why gay pornography should be examined through a lens of sexual desire, music, fashion-and why she doesn’t just want to be known as a trans woman documenting gay porn. ![]() Image credit: Ask Any Buddy © Elizabeth PurchellĮlizabeth Purchell is an Austin-based queer film historian, programmer, filmmaker, and the creator of the multi-media project Ask Any Buddy.
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