Erotic Films of Peter de Rome

My first selection of this year's Seattle Lesbian & Gay Film Festival was the Erotic Films of Peter de Rome.  Peter de Rome was a filmmaker who made short and full length erotic films in the 1970's.  This screening was a retrospective on his short works.  For a midnight show I thought I would give it a shot.

The shorts were nudity filled and most did not have actual hardcore sexual action in them.  The shorts were a combination of erotic and artsy and very much a sign of the times.  It reminded me of what I would have watched in my college film classes had their been a queer cinema class.

What I really left from this screening was that there is a fine line between pornography and erotica.  A line that I always knew existed, but never realized was so blurred in the hands of an art house filmmaker.  Makes me wonder what Shortbus would be like if Peter de Rome had directed instead of John Cameron Mitchell...