When we spoke to Brooke Candy last week, the rapper told us that she’d just finished directing a porn film in collaboration with Pornhub – a freedom that she wouldn’t have had, had she still be signed to a major label. “It was one of the most gratifying and creatively fulfilling projects I’ve ever had the pleasure to work on,” she said. “The reference was Deep Throat meets The Holy Mountain, but it took on its own theme as time went on.”
Now, that film is online. Titled I Love You, the film features full-length lesbian, gay, and trans scenes, drawing visual inspiration from arthouse classics like The Holy Mountain and Matthew Barney’s Cremaster Cycle. The film stars features adult entertainment stars, including Abella Danger, Kira Noir, Jesse Prather, Remy Cruze, Venus Lux, and Chanel Santini. It’s the second film in Pornhub’s ‘Visionaries Director’s Club’ series, which previously saw rapper Young M.A helm a film called The Gift.
“Creating this film and having the opportunity to present my own sexuality for Pornhub was a dream come true,” Brooke Candy says in a press release. I wanted to create something which felt like a fantasy dream, and in doing so, I took references from amazing creators such as Bruce La Bruce and Matthew Barney, plus some iconic pornography like Deep Throat which are viscerally sexy and are drenched in sensuality, something I believe is lacking in the industry.”
“The shoot day was magical!” she adds. “We had the most next level crew of fine artists from all over the world and the cast of actors that I chose really had an inner beauty which they unleashed on film. It’s queer, it’s sex-positive and it’s super hot. I’m so proud of it.”
Art director and producer Claire Barrow wrote on Instagram that the film was “one of the best things I’ve ever had the pleasure of working on”, adding that she “learnt a lot about the industry, and also about sex”. “Also got to be the ‘Fluffer’ onset,” she added. “But that just meant giving the actors water and lube and taking their chewing gum.”
Corey Price, VP of Pornhub, added: “Brooke is a boundary-pushing artist with a hyper-sexual flow who has amassed a devout following over the course of her successful career... (I Love You) draws upon her personality and evokes a certain sense of empowerment, diversity and sexual liberation.”
Brooke Candy’s most recent single, “My Sex”, was a collaboration with Mykki Blanco, Pussy Riot, and MNDR.
Check out a safe-for-work trailer for I Love You below and watch the full film on Pornhub here, but bear in mind that it is, obviously, extremely NSFW.