Jamie Gillis

But Undulations is lost in the shuffle, uh...

Is that the one where it's the talk show that Jamie Gillis and John Holmes is on?

My Sinful Life, Lost in the Shuffle.

Was My Sinful Life the one where the woman's dying? No, that's her final...

That one's good.

It's got like a good story to it.

And it's also got like good performances from like Jamie Gillis and Herschel Savage and a couple other guys.

Right.

It is something of a rushed, loungy, problematic object that stands in stark contrast with the more ambitious works its maker would make off the back of it.

Over time, Gerard Damiano established a sort of hardcore repertory company – Harry Reams, Georgina Spelvin, Jamie Gillis, Annie Sprinkle, to name a few – and produced a serious and quixotic body of work, the bulk of which was made in the so-called porno-chic boom of the 1970s, but which continued substantially into the 80s as well.

Damiano kept working into the mid-1990s, long after video had transformed the industry and thus longer than most artistically ambitious pornographic filmmakers who came of age in the 70s.

Damiano eventually died in Florida in 2008 after a healthy retirement, a few weeks after a huge birthday celebration and reunion that saw many of his beloved former stars trek down to Florida to celebrate with the master.

The scene with the mirrors and also the close-ups, the close-up shots of the penis, right? On her face, it becomes this animalistic, weird creature, as if it has its own being, not someone's organ, but as a creature on its own sake.

Also, you know, you mentioned that he's very much a heterosexual filmmaker, which is true of, I think, all of these films.

But there is a moment in Story of Joanna where the butler gives Jamie Gillis a blowjob.

And it's quite short, but I know that that was kind of Damiano's...

In fact, I was supposed to be in the original The Adventures of Batman that started the whole thing.

And the scene was supposed to be me and Randy Spears, but he changed Randy Spears to Jamie Gillis, whom I like personally, but his sex scene scared me.

Oh, why is that? He was just really intense.

Had you had sex with him before?