SAN FRANCISCO—Dutch American adult performer, director and activist Chelsea Poe has released her most ambitious work to date, Reclaimed: Long Live Queer Porn, an over two-hour feature that “merges art, labor and justice.”
The movie is released as Poe said she continues formal proceedings to regain full control of her catalog and creative legacy.
Poe stated, “For over a decade, I poured myself into films that shaped who I am as an artist, a performer, and a person. When my website was shut down and my records withheld, I knew I couldn’t let that be my ending. Over the past year I’ve fought legally, emotionally and artistically to take my work back. ‘Reclaimed’ is the result."
Shot between California and The Netherlands, Reclaimed features performers from six countries and revisits themes and imagery from projects that defined Poe’s career, including Femme 4 Femme, From Holland With Love, Chelsea Submits, Fucking Against Fascism, Fetish Fvckdolls and The Submissive Mixtape.
“This is the most international film I’ve ever made,” Poe continued. “It proves that queer porn isn’t tied to one company, one city, or one person. It will always live somewhere, somehow, and forever.”
Poe frames Reclaimed as both “a celebration and a document of reclamation—of [my] image, [my] authorship and the collective labor of sex workers and queer artists. To everyone who stood with me publicly and privately during this fight—thank you. To the sex workers who inspired me, the performers who trusted me, and those just starting out, this film is proof that your art and your labor are worth fighting for—whether on camera, in our communities, or in the courtroom.”
Reclaimed: Long Live Queer Porn is available now on Adult Empire and HotMovies, or directly from Poe by emailing [email protected].
Direct purchases will benefit and include a donation receipt from nonprofits the U.N. Refugee Agency or Prostitution Information Center (PIC) Amsterdam.
