''Thinking XXX'' is a 2004 documentary television film about the process photographer
Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
Timothy Greenfield-Sanders (born February 16, 1952) is an American documentary filmmaker and portrait photographer based in New York City. The majority of his work is shot in large format.
Early life
Greenfield-Sanders was born in 1952, in Mi ...
went through to create his book ''XXX: 30 Porn Star Portraits''.
Content
The film shows Greenfield-Sanders as he shoots portraits of thirty
porn stars
A pornographic film actor or actress, pornographic performer, adult entertainer, or porn star is a person who performs sex acts on video that is usually characterized as a pornographic film. Such videos tend to be made in a number of distinc ...
both clothed and naked for the book as well as presenting conversations and interviews with the performers along with authors, artists and filmmakers outside of the
pornography
Pornography (colloquially called porn or porno) is Sexual suggestiveness, sexually suggestive material, such as a picture, video, text, or audio, intended for sexual arousal. Made for consumption by adults, pornographic depictions have evolv ...
industry. For the portraits Greenfield-Sanders uses an antique
view camera
A view camera is a large format, large-format camera in which the large format lens, lens forms an erect image, inverted image on a ground glass, ground-glass screen directly at the film plane. The image is viewed, composed, and focused, then the ...
as both a challenge to his photographic skills and to have negatives large enough to create oversized exhibition prints for gallery exhibitions.
The film was produced for broadcast on the
HBO
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cable TV channel and was never released to theaters, and was therefore not rated by the
Motion Picture Association of America
The Motion Picture Association (MPA) is an American trade association representing the Major film studios, five major film studios of the Cinema of the United States, United States, the Major film studios#Mini-majors, mini-major Amazon MGM Stud ...
.
Reception
A review in ''Houston Voice'' said that the film "did something that many in the past have tried and failed to do: humanize porn stars".
List of portrait subjects
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Sunrise Adams
Sunrise Adams is an American author and Pornographic film actor, pornographic actress.
Early life
Sunrise Adams was born in St. Louis, Missouri and raised in Pickton, Texas.''Hustler (magazine), Hustler'', May 2005 In high school, she is noted f ...
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Briana Banks
Briana Banks (born 21 May 1978) is a German pornographic actress and model. She was the '' Penthouse'' Pet of the Month for June 2001. She is a member of the AVN Hall of Fame and XRCO Hall of Fame.
Early life
Banks was born in Munich, Germany t ...
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Belladonna
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Seymore Butts
Adam Glasser (born March 18, 1964), known professionally as Seymore Butts, is an American pornographic film director, producer, and occasional performer who has produced hundreds of films in the gonzo genre of pornography (faux reality-based adul ...
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Christy Canyon
Christy Canyon (born June 17, 1966) is a pornographic actress and American radio personality. She is a member of both the AVN and XRCO Halls of Fame and a recipient of the Free Speech Coalition Lifetime Achievement Award.
Career Adult film ...
* Chloe
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Nina Hartley
Marie Louise Hartman (born 1959), known professionally as Nina Hartley, is an American pornographic film actress and sex educator. By 2017 she had appeared in more than one thousand adult films. She has been described by ''Las Vegas Weekly'' as ...
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Heather Hunter
Heather Keisha Hunter (born October 1, 1969), nicknamed Double H, is an American rapper, painter, author, and pornographic actress. She is a member of the AVN, Urban X, and XRCO Halls of Fame.
Early life
Hunter was born in The Bronx, New York ...
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Jenna Jameson
Jenna Marie Massoli (born April 9, 1974), known professionally as Jenna Jameson (), is an American businesswoman, writer, television personality, and former pornographic film actress. She has been named the world's most famous adult entertainm ...
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Jesse Jane
Cynthia Ann Howell (July 16, 1980 – January 24, 2024), known professionally as Jesse Jane, was an American pornographic film actress. She became one of the few adult film performers of the 2000s to make the transition into mainstream film an ...
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Ron Jeremy
Ronald Jeremy Hyatt (born March 12, 1953) is an American former Pornographic film actor, pornographic actor, and actor.
Nicknamed "The Hedgehog", Jeremy was ranked by AVN (magazine), ''AVN'' at No. 1 in their "50 Top Porn Stars of All Time" l ...
*Jeremy Jordan
* Reina Leone
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Michael Lucas
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Gina Lynn
Tanya Mercado (born February 15, 1974), known professionally as Gina Lynn, is an American former pornographic actress, model, and stripper. She was inducted into the AVN Hall of Fame in 2010 and is the '' Penthouse'' magazine Penthouse Pet for Ap ...
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Ginger Lynn
Ginger Lynn Allen (born December 14, 1962) is an American pornographic actress and model who was a premier adult-entertainment star of the 1980s. She also had minor roles in various B movies. '' Adult Video News'' ranked her at #7 of the 50 ...
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Sean Michaels
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Sharon Mitchell
Sharon Mitchell is an American sexologist and former pornographic film actress and film director, director. In 1998, she founded the Adult Industry Medical Health Care Foundation (AIM), which tested over 1,000 adult film performers per month be ...
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Peter North
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Tera Patrick
Tera Patrick (born Linda Ann Hopkins; July 25, 1976) is an American former pornographic film actor, pornographic actress who was the ''Penthouse (magazine), Penthouse'' Pet of the Month for February 2000 and is an inductee of the NightMoves H ...
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Mari Possa
Mari Possa is a Salvadoran American pornographic actress and reality TV personality.
Early life
Possa was born in San Miguel, El Salvador. Her family moved from El Salvador to the United States when she was nine.
Career
Mari Possa was a former ...
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Lukas Ridgeston
Lukas Ridgeston (born 5 April 1974) is a Slovak actor and director in gay erotic movies and model in Bel Ami gay erotic magazines and books."Lukas Ridgeston." ''BelAmiModels'', 2012. Web. 18 Feb. 2012. He was born in Bratislava, then part of th ...
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Savanna Samson
Savanna Samson (born October 14, 1967) is the stage name of Natalie Oliveros, an American former pornographic actress. The winner of several AVN Awards, she has spent most of her career as a contract performer with major producer Vivid Entertain ...
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Aiden Shaw
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Lexington Steele
Clifton Todd Britt (born November 28, 1969), better known by his stage name Lexington Steele, is an American pornographic actor, director, producer, and former stockbroker. He is the owner of the adult production companies Mercenary Motion Pict ...
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May Ling Su
Soundtrack
Track listing:
#''
AA XXX'' -
Peaches
The peach (''Prunus persica'') is a deciduous tree first domesticated and cultivated in China. It bears edible juicy fruits with various characteristics, most called peaches and the glossy-skinned, non-fuzzy varieties called nectarines. Peac ...
#''Hot In Here'' -
Tiga
#''Muscle Car (Reform Reprise)'' -
Mylo
Myles MacInnes (born 10 May 1978), better known by his stage name Mylo, is a Scottish electronic musician and record producer. His 2004 album '' Destroy Rock & Roll'' peaked at number 26 on the UK Albums Chart. He is best known for his 2005 si ...
#''Coochie Coo'' -
Felix da Housecat
Felix da Housecat (born Felix Stallings Jr., August 25, 1971) is an American DJ and record producer, mostly known for house music and electro. Felix is regarded as a member of the second wave of Chicago house.
Musical career Early life
Stalli ...
with
Princess Superstar
Concetta Suzanne Kirschner (born February 25, 1971), better known as Princess Superstar, is an American rapper, singer and DJ. She has had two chart hits in the UK, the humorous song "Bad Babysitter", which reached number 11 on the UK Singles ...
#''Train'' -
Goldfrapp
Goldfrapp were an English electronic music duo from London, formed in 1999. The duo consisted of Alison Goldfrapp (vocals, synthesiser) and Will Gregory (synthesiser).
Despite favourable reviews and a short-listing for the Mercury Prize, thei ...
#''I Want To Be Your Dog'' - Futon
#''Lovesucker'' - Xlover
#''Sugar'' -
Ladytron
Ladytron are an electronic band formed in Liverpool in 1999. The group consists of Helen Marnie (lead vocals, synthesizers), Mira Aroyo (vocals, synthesizers), and Daniel Hunt (synthesizers, guitar, vocals). Reuben Wu (synthesizers) was a ...
#''Leave Them All Behind'' -
Whitey
#''Rock And Roll (Part 3)'' - Virgin Tears
#''Freak Like Me'' -
Heather Hunter
Heather Keisha Hunter (born October 1, 1969), nicknamed Double H, is an American rapper, painter, author, and pornographic actress. She is a member of the AVN, Urban X, and XRCO Halls of Fame.
Early life
Hunter was born in The Bronx, New York ...
with
DJ Premier
Christopher Edward Martin (born March 21, 1966), known professionally as DJ Premier (also known as Preemo), is an American record producer and DJ. He has been frequently lauded as one of hip hop's greatest producers by publications such as '' ...
#''Time Bomb'' -
Rabbit in the Moon
Rabbit in the Moon is an American electronic music group that formed in 1991. Their style draws from psychedelic trance, house music and breakbeat, along with other diverse influences. They were among the first to mix theatrical stage perform ...
#''HLM'' - Moderato
#''Here She Comes'' -
Velvet Underground
The Velvet Underground were an American rock band formed in New York City in 1964. Its classic lineup consisted of singer and guitarist Lou Reed, Welsh multi-instrumentalist John Cale, guitarist Sterling Morrison, and percussionist Moe Tuc ...
References
External links
Official website*
2004 television films
2004 films
Documentary films about American pornography
Documentary films about photographers
HBO documentary films
2004 documentary films
Films directed by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
2000s American films
American documentary television films
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