I Always Said Yes The Many Lives of Wakefield Poole (2013)

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I Always Said Yes The Many Lives of Wakefield Poole 2013 An outspoken and articulate artist in a turbulent, passionate time, Wakefield Poole didnt think of himself as a pornographer He was a filmmaker who used his dance and theater background to create beautiful, erotic art films that challenged the mind Many agreed To others, though, Poole just made dirty movies I Always Said Yes The Many Lives of Wakefield Poole tells the story of this sometimes overlooked gay liberation and independent film making pioneer In an era when anyone making, promoting, or appearing in what the US government considered pornography could be liable for prosecution and jail time, Wakefield Poole was a remarkably open and honest gay filmmaker He also became internationally famous and his movies screened for years as examples of films that could be artistic as well as sexually explicit Filled with gorgeous archival footage, excerpts from Pooles lushly photographed films, and entertaining and illuminating interviews with Pooles contemporaries and colleagues, I Always Said Yes is a story of artistic integrity and disappointment, self destruction, love, sex, fortitude, and musical comedy