On October 10, 2012, we will have the head Master and Mistress of La Domaine Esemar be our guest speakers. La Domaine Esemar is a professional BDSM dungeon that services clients, hosts monthly parties, and maintains an active BDSM lifestyle. Please explore a bit of the La Domaine website to get an idea of the place. I have been filming my current documentary at La Domaine, exploring this subculture and how it relates to the larger world of sex workers. I will be filming the guest speakers’ discussion to include with my documentary film (students won’t be filmed). I will also be talking about what it was like for me as a filmmaker to find this location and the guest speakers will talk about the ways in which the filming has impacted their experience.
There are no assigned readings this week, but you should explore the La Domaine website and also look up relevant information about the BDSM subculture, and sex worker social issues in general. Here are two clips from this documentary project:
In addition to the hour we will have with our guest speakers, I will talk about the world of documentary films that portray sex workers. Then we will watch Scarlet Road in class.
For your websites, your page on documentary films is also do. Please post a link to it on this blog posting and be ready to talk about it in class, if we have time.
Sociology of Documentary Filmmaking 