LAS VEGAS—Kink and fetish star Axel Abysse and collaborator Yoshi Kawasaki have announced the release of new scene "One Take," which was shot at the 2022 SNAP! (Sex Workers Narratives Arts & Politics) festival. The scene will make its debut at AxelAbysse.com and YoshiKawasakiXXX.com on Friday, May 5.
Kawasaki and Abysse are releasing the movie to coincide with the 2023 edition of the SNAP! festival in collaboration with the Brussels Porn Film Festival (which is also presenting Abysse's movies “Vice Versa,” “Baptism” and “The Experiment”). The “One Take” video documents their performance before festival attendees, and two discussions, “Snap Talk” and “Snap Q&A” (available as bonus videos to site subscribers) round out a full virtual experience of Kawasaki and Abysse's SNAP! conference session.
Abysse recounts, “I’m used to performing on stage in sex clubs or fetish events such as Darklands, but this was very different. First, being asked to talk about my work, and more precisely my life as a French sex worker expatriated in Japan, was both intimidating and enriching. I rarely take the time to step back and analyze what my career or my work can mean to myself or my audience. When performing in sex clubs, my only task is to be the pig that I am and turn on the spectators who came to see fisting. Here, the audience is a mix of all genders, most people being sex workers themselves, with a curiosity but not necessarily into or experienced with fisting/extreme practices.
"According to the questions we were asked after the filming, what struck some people in the audience was our level of intimacy despite the intensity of the practices," Abysse continued. "That means we reached the goal I have with my movies in general, focusing on showcasing the care for one another through fisting, which most people tend to view as violent and degrading. This is why I also love that kind of performance format, for an open-minded audience that is not necessarily the main target of the usual gay fisting porn. As a pansexual myself, I want my work to be able to reach all kinds of people too.”
Added Kawasaki, “Performing at the SNAP! festival was such a breath of fresh air. The crowd there was genuinely welcoming and I really appreciated the non-judgmental atmosphere the whole festival had.”
Festival organizer Marianne Chargois was familiar with Abysse and Kawasaki’s online work and was eager to bring them aboard to the event.
“As a programmer of a pornographic festival, I discovered the films of Axel Abysse and Yoshi Kawasaki," Chargois said. "As a fist-fucking fan, I literally fell in love with their asses. As a sex worker, I was impressed by their athletic skills. It became an obsession: I wanted to give the SNAP! festival audience as well as my own inner pervert this incredible experience of watching their pornographic performance live. It was a noble goal: I had never experienced such a moment of excitement, emotion and power.”
“One Take” and bonus event videos “SNAP Talk!” and “SNAP Q&A” will all be available as of Friday, May 5 at AxelAbysse.com and YoshiKawasakiXXX.com.
