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Damon and Hunter: Doing It Together
Rating: 3 Stars
Produced by Tony Comstock and Peggy Comstock. Directed by Tony Comstock. Videography by Kiko Martin, Tony Comstock, and Peggy Comstock. Starring Damon DeMarco and Hunter James.
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Filmmakers Tony and Peggy Comstock have embarked on a series of short documentaries about the intimate lives of couples. The films-- shot on 16 millimeter film stock, not on video-- combine interview segments with hardcore footage of the subjects having sex.

Completed installments include three sets of heterosexual partners, a lesbian couple, and a gay male couple. The latter is a pair of articulate, accessibly attractive porn models, former housemates and now partners, Damon DeMarco and Hunter James. (Both appear in Chi Chi LaRue's recent, award-winning Wrong Side of the Tracks.)

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I>Damon and Hunter: Doing It Together is neither conventional porn nor a genuinely in-depth treatment of the couple's relationship, but DeMarco and James are instantly likable, and their lovemaking is presented with warmth and respect.

The sex occurs without directorial intervention and is shot by means of a three-camera set-up that facilitates nuanced editing.

Dark-haired, olive-skinned DeMarco and blond, pale James, both in their mid-twenties, contrast both physically and socially: Demarco comes from a liberal Canadian family; James is the son of conservative Southern Baptists.

In their porn work for Falcon, Channel 1, and other studios, neither has shown the humanity or screen presence both exhibit in this 46-minute film.

If the Comstocks add another gay couple to their series, however, it might be interesting to choose one that isn't quite so accustomed to having sex on camera.

It's worth noting that the director's pseudonym, Tony Comstock, pays subversive tribute to Anthony Comstock, the militant prude who in 1866 founded the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice and set the tone for American censorship into the 20th century.

Turning the tables on his namesake, this 21st-century Comstock has made it his mission to acknowledge the role of sex in human relationships, depict it graphically, and celebrate its power.