Nonfilms - Lorraine

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Recorded in the early 1980's.

Linda and I always were blown out at what people would do and how easy it was to move far beyond the normal inhibitions to joyful freedom.  This is a case in point.  At the beginning she had us shut off the camera when she was changing costumes.  And if you look closely, you can see her friend trying to be invisible!  But shortly into it Lorraine and I are on the bed together playing nude erotically together, giggling joyfully. What may be missed in this is that the shoot was usually the first contact I had with the person since I wheeled up to her at a public place to ask if she would be in my film!

Nonfilms - Tracy & Teresa

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Recorded in the early 1980's.

This one is simply the hottest, the most erotic of the nonfilms...  Well, at least in the top five!  So what if they were in my group for years, and so what if they were lovers [in fact in a threesome with another woman]...  This is aroused intimacy!

The Uncomfortable Zones Of Fun, January 22, 2011

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Recorded at Temescal Art Center, Oakland, California.

This one shows the possibilities of going all the way into sexy aroused fun when everybody takes personal responsibility for going all the way!

Well, the first performance of the year was the kind that would spoil me if I expected every performance or most performances to reach the depths of this one!  Everything went there!  In my performances there is an invisible hidden secret state of erotic friction of arousing human intimacy rubbing between bodies without limits or glamour.  Because it is invisible, you can not see it, only feel it.  For example,   we didn’t enter that state at the performance at the Center for Sex and Culture in San Francisco last summer, even though that was very erotic, visual, communal, tribal, etc.  In fact, we last entered that state last February at Temescal.

The first couple to arrive actually set the tone, anchored /rooted the performance.  The guy, Bobby, did that just by being there.  Vicki turned out to be an actor.  Her reading /acting out my poems throughout opened the door into the holy madness.  Everything worked!  It was possible to do a lot of the rituals [GESTURES, ROCKING, DRESSING, PROJECTING SLIDES ON NUDE DANCERS, etc] that have either set upon the shelf or haven’t reached the depths of arousing unknowns for awhile.  And new rituals were introduced [UNDRESS THE CAMERAMAN, THE SIAMESE WAIST BANDS, TAKING /READING NOTES, etc].  There was just the right amount of resistance so that important issues could be explored, and to reveal that zones of comfort are silly and really prisons.  [I am imagining the shit about being a homophobe a straight guy would get if he gave the reasons for not wanting to undress the cameraman that the Lesbian gave!] But Amy and her friend stepped up and by being actively lustfully abandoned willing to play and trust, broke everything open for everybody.  And they did it as just fun, no big deal.  I liked exploring his butt!  Everything started floating into that juicy secret space as Amy started rocking on my lap, prickly freedom going all the way into both fusion and infusion of arousing magical pleasure erotic friction of comfort.  Tomek’s surreal music created waves connecting the holy dancers together as they [us] webbed and flowed into different combinations and forms and roles without limits or judgments.  Amy and her friend [he obviously hadn’t done anything like this before!] made it possible by simply trusting…  Trusting so deeply, they could reshape the dance without avoiding anything.  A whole band appeared at this point to join Tomek [they would disappear when the dance was over!]!  Things got hot and surreal, while staying simple and human.  Intimacy, closeness among everybody who stayed welded us into a cozy tribal body.  Our skin [the organ of connection] webbed all of us together as the rubbing went all the way deeper into calm pleasure, as Vicki threw herself on the floor and rocked and belted out the words of the poem.  I wish I could take credit for creating such a dramatic, erotic turn-on of an event.  But I just followed the possibilities that the willingness people brought to the space created.

More: http://www.eroplay.com/Cave/uzof/uzof-jan2011/index.html

Robert & Allyson - Frank Moore's Shaman's Den

Recorded November 14, 2004.

Ah, here I'm faced with what looked like an uptight yuppie couple promoting what they do.  But early on in the show I get her to take off her bra.  And by the end of the show they gave me their swanky space in San Francisco for a on-going performance series!  I GET RESULTS!  I still have her bra in my studio.

The Intimate Playing Workshop, San Francisco, California, January 28, 2005

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This workshop /performance series came in between after losing our second performance series at University of California Berkeley in the 2000s and finding an artistic home at Temescal art center in Oakland.  We could not find any space to rent for performances.  Yoga joints would not rent to me because of the nudity, never mind that Yoga historically was done nude!  I was whining about this to my two guests on my Berkeley community public access cable show.  They were ex- corporate yuppies who now ran a new age sex center in San Francisco.  They offered me a home for performances /workshop.

Nonfilms - Qyin

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Recorded in the early 1980's.

When I started preparing to edit EROTIC PLAY [ https://archive.org/details/eroticplay ], I numbered the source tapes [each with six hours of Sessions]. Obviously I numbered them randomly, not according to when they were shot. It is now obvious because for months we have been seeing people in the nonfilms wearing the red mini- dress. Well, this was the beginning of the red mini- dress! She had polio and didn't want to have her legs [which I thought were sexy] in the same shot as her sexy face. So...

This established my tactic of asking people to do what the people before them did.

Nonfilms - Frank & Nina

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Recorded in the early 1980's.

This is an out take for FEISTO [ https://archive.org/details/feisto ]with me having my way with a pillow.  But Nina [ from FEISTO and FAIRYTALES CAN COME TRUE, https://archive.org/details/fairytales-can-come-true ] came in and things threatened to get even hotter!

Nonfilms - Tereza & Frank

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Recorded in the early 1980's.

This is one I don't remember shooting.  But it is amazing how she went from making us turn off the camera as she changed costumes to just hanging out nude relaxed in a very short time.

Nonfilms - Julie

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Recorded in the early 1980's.

Julie was a mother of grown kids, a history buff, and a dweller of a different altered reality!

Kathleen 6-hour Training, April 11, 1984

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In this video, I'm giving the actress who would be in my performance series at University of California Berkeley in the eighties the philosophical and historical context of my work.  Then we rehearsed the very first ROCKING which became an extremely important ritual in my performances for decades! You never know what will stick!

The Uncomfortable Zones Of Fun, December 17, 2010

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Recorded at Temescal Art Center, Oakland, California.

Ah, the last performance of the year and the first full out performance since May when I almost died.  It is like riding a horse or a bike [I have done both]…  You never forget how to do it, they say.  But the large crowd tested that theory.  Usually when it is stormy outside, we don’t get many people.  It is the same for over the holidays.  But both didn’t keep people away this time.  So I was faced with a rug full of people eager to play.  It was like sitting down to a complex instrument, trying to figure out how  to play it.  And drums and violins appeared in the audience to play with Kene-J and Mark [where was Tomek?].  But there were too many possibilities within the crowd, so it took most of the time opening the packages so to speak, and we were just getting started playing when it was time to wrap it up [and it was a very satisfying powerful wrap up!].  There was a lot that happened.  But it was the tip of the iceberg.  That is why it is a series!  If I was driven by my own expectations, judgments, bits I have thought of years ago but time/space for which has not appeared yet, etc, I would get in the way of the performance.  My main job of the night was to guide things away from casual, social, judgments, and other blocks to getting deeper.  It worked.  We curved away from “democracy” where people vote on their judgments and desires, curved into the tribal body where serious fun could occur, which was why most people were there.

As our T-shirt says, I SURVIVED THE UNCOMFORTABLE ZONES OF FUN!

More: http://eroplay.com/Cave/uzof/uzof-dec2010/index.html

The Uncomfortable Zones Of Fun, May 5, 2012

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Recorded at Temescal Art Center, Oakland, California.

Hey, this one was much more dynamic than they have been for the past six months!  That is not to say it couldn't have gone much farther.  But everybody worked.  A lot left shaken up!  A lot of seeds and time bombs were planted!  Reality happened!

Nonfilms - Inga & Anne

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Recorded in the early 1980's.

These are another platonic female couple of friends who lustily played together intimate sexy fun!

But can anybody explain why, even after they had gone around topless, they then hid their nipples?  And while you are explaining, why are bare female nipples so taboo?

Nonfilms - Jan

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Recorded in the early 1980's.

Ah, this cute sexy babe in the wheelchair is a poet who did everything she had to do to live a free independent life.

Eroplay - April 24, 1985

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This is one of those hidden gems which I had forgotten ever doing.  This is one of the most intensive examining, both Intellectually and erotically, of what I do.  As a sexy and smart actress and I talked philosophically about the processes I used in calling forth erotic trust and intimacy in my performances, a deep state of intimate trance was created so she played with me on the mat.

Frank and Shirt Jam at the Purple House, April 25, 2012

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This is a jam I [piano, vocal, chimes] did at the house with Shirt who has been playing music at the performances for months whenever he has been in town.  After the jam, Shirt told me he first heard of me from a professor when Shirt was going to art school in some hick town in Pennsylvania twelve years ago.  FATED!

Nonfilms - Barbara Talking

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Barbara is back!  As we have seen before (https://archive.org/details/barbara_201910), she was very willing to erotically explore with me.  This time we talked about the kind of physical play I was trying to explore at the time.  I hadn’t coined the word Eroplay for it yet.

Eroplay is intense nonlinear physical touching, rubbing, licking, exploring for physical pleasure for its own sake. Eroplay is foreplay which is released from the linear goals of reaching genital orgasm.

Barbara understood what I was trying to explore, as did Holly.

One more Barbara: https://archive.org/details/eroticplay-rawfootage-barbara

Out Of Isolation: Rehearsal - Studio J, Berkeley, California, April 24, 1995

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This is another rehearsal mid- week between the weekends of the play.  I was still trying to figure out why the performances before audiences frankly sucked and had little erotic juice when the rehearsals were about the most warmly erotic thing I had ever done.  After the run was over, Bonnie finally admitted she didn't think people could handle it full strength, so she kept watering it down for the audience!  I NEVER WATER ANYTHING DOWN!

Watch other rehearsals: Out of Isolation - Rehearsal, Curtis Street, April 18, 1995: https://archive.org/details/outofisolation-curtisst-041895
Out of Isolation: Rehearsal - Studio J, Berkeley, California, May 1, 1995:
https://archive.org/details/outofisolation-studioj-050195

Nonfilms - Deni

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Recorded in the early 1980's.

Although deni talked about how she was shy, modest, blocked, etc, she did so as she was topless trying on costumes!  Cute!

The 1st Outrageous Beauty Contest, Mabuhay Gardens, San Francisco, California, 1978

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Recorded Saturday, October 7, 1978.

A couple of weeks ago we here discovered in our closet a box filled with reel to reel videos of our performances from the seventies.  We thought they were stolen.  So nobody has watched this for about thirty four years!  we just received this back from the transfer place.

This is the very first OUTRAGEOUS BEAUTY CONTEST which was the seed for the OUTRAGEOUS BEAUTY REVUE [see https://eroplay.com/obr/index.html].  This was supposed to be a one time event.  But we filled the legendary San Francisco punk club the Mabuhay, and the first two rows were photographers!  So during the show, the Mabuhay's manager dirk Dirksen pressured me into announcing I would do a weekly show.

I wanted to do a really outrageous show.  But, although I collected  thousands of dollars in prizes from the bay area stores, etc, I could not get real contestants who would be as outrageous as I wanted.  So I planted members of my troop to up the intensity.  They couldn't win the contest.  See if you can tell which they are!  I think this is one of the most outrageous shows ever!

Visit the website: https://eroplay.com/obr/index.html

The Uncomfortable Zones Of Fun, March 27, 2010

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Recorded at Temescal Art Center, Oakland, California.

Funny.  Saturday’s crowd was the polar opposite of last month’s crowd.  Last month people came willing to risk and go into risks that were uncomfortable in the way expanding is uncomfortable.  They did it because they wanted to get to the deeper freedom and fun which they realized was beyond what is now popularly called COMFORT ZONES.  So they took personal responsibility for doing whatever was needed to get there.  And in doing that, a magical fun was created within a real flexible comfort which was not limited by fragile zones!  I really didn’t have to do much!

But Saturday most of the people seemed to have come to be entertained with tricks which would somehow lead to them being transformed in someway without them having to do something, having to go through being uncomfortable, risking, pushing, etc.  So they kept saying NO…  I AM NOT COMFORTABLE WITH THAT!  Not all did this.  A few pushed themselves and had fun!  But most didn’t put their chips into the experience.  This is especially true of the people who had come before and had a fun, life-changing experience.  They came back to have another amazing experience.  But they weren’t willing to give, to push on from what they did last time, even to read GESTURES!  So for them, things obviously felt flat.  They would have ignored this flat feeling.  But I stopped the performance to heighten this flat feeling!  To have a transforming experience, you need to put yourself into the pot!  And I know when to play ‘em, when to fold ‘em, when to walk away, and when to run…  Especially when this performance series is clearly becoming a popular thing to go to, I will play some poker!

More: http://www.eroplay.com/Cave/uzof/uzof-march2010/index.html

Out Of Isolation - Rehearsal, Curtis Street, 4.18.95

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This video of a rehearsal for OUT OF ISOLATION when I directed it as a play is one of the most warmly erotic things I have done.  In fact the whole rehearsal process with Corey as Jim [my role in the film] and Bonnie as Jane was always deeply erotic.  But when they got on stage [where I as the director was powerless] most of the erotic juice disappeared.  This rehearsal was in between the two weekends of the play.  Obviously the erotic juice appeared again for this rehearsal!

Watch other rehearsals:

Out of Isolation: Rehearsal - Studio J, Berkeley, California, April 24, 1995: https://archive.org/details/outofisolation-studioJ-RodDailey-042495

Out of Isolation: Rehearsal - Studio J, Berkeley, California, May 1, 1995:
https://archive.org/details/outofisolation-studioj-050195

Nonfilms - Frank Eating

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Recorded in the early 1980's.

I made this when I was going to the San Francisco Art Institute for my masters.  They freaked out when I showed this in class.  But they always freaked out at my work!  Years later, when Annie Sprinkle was in my performance cast, she said my best piece was when I ate!

Nonfilms - Joan & Frank

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Recorded in the early 1980's.

Well, I was sitting in this dentist waiting room an extremely hot day and this extremely hot sexy babe sat down beside me.....  I didn't know you could brush your teeth like that!

Nonfilms - Pat

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Recorded in the early 1980's.

This teasing seductive gal really enjoyed turning on everybody...  Me, her boyfriend sitting beside her, the camera, and especially herself and THE PILLOW!  And this tease ended up showing everything!  ONE OF THE MOST EROTIC OF THE NONFILMS!

Nonfilms - Frank

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Recorded in the early 1980's.

Who is this hunk?!  Actually this is an out-take from my film FEISTO.

The Uncomfortable Zones Of Fun, April 7, 2012

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Recorded at Temescal Art Center, Oakland, California.

Well, last Saturday’s performance was another NO drama!  It was a room of people who don’t know the basic fact of life that you get what you put out.  They think putting out is below them.  So that was what the performance dealt with, to the great music by Kene-J and Shirt!

Time to take things to the next level!  I am working on it!

More: https://eroplay.com/Cave/uzof/uzof-apr2012/index.html

Nonfilms - Joan & Evelyn

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Recorded in the early 1980's.

This also appears to be an edit.  I had an ironclad policy of not turning off the camera during a shoot.  But this was a special case because one of the girls had a rash on her legs and didn't want her legs in the same shot as her face.

I think this is one of the most erotic of the nonfilms...  And funny!

These two were non- romantic /sexual friends, maybe roommates.  I filmed a few female non- romantic couples and mixed non- romantic couples.  But I didn't find any such male friends willing to play together in the nonfilms.

Nonfilms - Alfie & Pam

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Recorded in the early 1980's.

Please note that I do all my own stunts!

To get people to video for the nonfilms, I went up to people in the streets, cafes, etc in my motor wheelchair with a sign. I got these two in a gym. They were just gym buddies, not a romantic couple. 

Oh Btw, I WILL PUMP YOU UP!

The Uncomfortable Zones Of Fun, April 24, 2010

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Recorded at Temescal Art Center, Oakland, California.

PAUL KRASSNER: “As a performer, George Carlin was uncompromising, knowing that his audience trusted him not to be afraid of offending them. “

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/paul-krassner/remembering-george-carlin_b_109548.html

The so-called comfort zones are really the opposite of real comfort.  The zones are rigid prisons of fragile gated limits of eggshell fragility of fear and weakness.  They create isolation, separation, and fascism.  Real comfort is the relaxed ability to absorb, adapt, and play with anything that comes up in life and work with it in creating fun. This is outside the fragile zones.  What people mistaken for uncomfortable as they leave the zones is really freedom. But going in and out of the zones is addictive and drains possibilities away from not just you, but from everybody. This is why it is extremely important to accept personal responsibility to keep pushing beyond the “comfortable zones” into what at first appears to be difficult but which will melt into the doorway to the next dimension of pleasure! Well, after all, isn’t that why you came [and keep coming back] in the first place?

And rub deeply below the surface to the core to arouse heat of pleasure!

More: https://eroplay.com/Cave/uzof/uzof-apr2010/index.html

Nonfilms - Maria

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Recorded in the early 1980's.

I have never met anybody who had so much fun showing her tits by trying not to show her tits!  But don't blink!  For EROTIC PLAY I slowed the footage way down!

Nonfilms - Thea

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Recorded in the early 1980's.

Another sexy co-ed telling me how shy and modest she is AFTER she has taken her clothes off and tried on extremely revealing costumes!  And this shooting ends with her unsuccessfully trying to find where I'm ticklish.  LOWER!  LOWER!

Nonfilms - Paul

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ecorded in the early 1980's.

Just another hunk in the red mini- dress!

But last night we had over six thousand viewers on my Vimeo channel for the day after we put up another hunk!  So we shall see!

Nonfilms - Caligero

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Recorded in the early 1980's.

this video is for you who crave for a hunk!

12 Hour Process Edit

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Recorded in the early 1980's.

For this collage I took clips from my various productions, including the twelve hour PROCESS [at the time I was calling my performances PROCESSES] at THE SAN FRANCISCO ART INSTITUTE for my masters.  A bit of trivia: the redhead is Sybil Holiday.  At the time she was the manager of the San Francisco strip club THE LUSTY LADY.  She became a famous dominatrix.

Sasha Cagen (& Michael) - Frank Moore's Shaman's Den

Recorded live on Sunday, March 18, 2012, Berkeley, California.

A deep conversation about life!

Sasha Cagen is a writer, coach and community builder and the founder of the Quirkyalone movement. She is the author of the books, Quirkyalone: A Manifesto for Uncompromising Romantics and To-Do List: From Buying Milk to Finding a Soul Mate, What Our Lists Reveal About Us. She writes a blog on the Huffington Post and has appeared on CNN, the BBC and NPR.

Sasha attended Frank’s performance, The Uncomfortable Zones of Fun in December 2011 and published a long review of the performance on her Huffington Post blog. Frank invited Sasha to be a guest on the Shaman’s Den after reading her review.

Read Sasha’s review: http://sashacagen.com/uncategorized/improv-with-my-computer-or-my-night-with-frank-moore/

Read Sasha's review of this Shaman's Den: http://sashacagen.com/uncategorized/a-deep-conversation-about-life-coupling-and-quirkyness-with-frank-moore/

Bob Madigan Memorial Hootenany & Seance, March 11, 2012 - Cherotic All-Stars set [ON-STAGE CAMERA]

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Recorded at Cyclecide Warehouse, San Francisco, California.

The whole night was magical.  But things really started calling Bob back from wherever he now is when Annie narrated slides [mostly of naked Bob].  And then the FLUFF GRRL remaining members with the ashes of Bob blew everybody away.

In our tradition, FLUFF GRRL members joined my CHEROTIC ALL-STAR BAND with a lot of other CHEROTIC vets for a huge jam which was the deepest, the most powerful CHEROTIC jam ever.  To start I sang DANNY BOY and BOBBY’S GIRL [of course I was nude] to Bob.  And then the musicians piled onto the stage and spilled off in front of the stage.  Nude Linda and Erika joined me and things got hot and explicit, and Annie helped Bob suck my cock throughout the jam!  Actually I saw Bob at different points of the jam.  Actually I had two shifts of hot babes singing with me [and Peppe].  At one point the jam seemed to be winding down.  So Linda and Erika got off the stage to get me down.  But the band didn’t want to stop [after all it might be the last time!]!  So Annie and Stacy sang with me [kept kissing me!].  We segued into some of Bob’s favorite songs.  Like always, the jam lasted until most of the audience had left!  I think Bob was impressed that we cleared a room one more time!

Frank Moore's Cherotic All-Star Band:
Michael Peppe
Stacy Fluff Grrl
Annie Krist
Mike McKevitz
Frank Moore
Linda Mac
Erika Shaver-Nelson
Jessie McKevitz
Jonathan Dyer
Jack Rogers Drummer (stage left)
Andy Henning Drummer (stage right)
Kay – toy instruments
Tomek
Bob Madigan (in spirit/ashes)
Theremin Barney

AUDIENCE CAMERA: https://archive.org/details/allstars-bobmadiganmemorial-audience-031112

SING ALONG, JAM ALONG, PLAY ALONG, DANCE ALONG, RUB ALONG, MOVE ALONG WITH FRANK MOORE

a solo concert: piano, vocals & chimes as part of Leslie Baker's Salon, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Recorded March 10, 2012.

What a weekend I had!  This was Saturday.  I am playing via skype video [ and http://www.luver.com ] for a party in Canada live!

The Freedom To Be Human Ball, Burnt Ramen, Richmond, California, May 4, 2002

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Frank Moore's Cherotic All-Star Band.

This was the last act of a very long show of great bands at the illegal underground punk hard-core venue BURNT RAMEN.  Traditionally I cherry picked musicians from the other bands of the show to play in my band!

The Uncomfortable Zones Of Fun, March 3, 2012

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Recorded at Temescal Art Center, Oakland, California.

Saturday’s performance can be called THE INVASION OF THE NO PEOPLE.  They came, according to them, because of the possibilities of SEX, SHAMANISM, and NUDE DANCING GIRLS [a woman gave the last as the motivation for her coming].  They had watched videos of past performances.  So they knew what they were getting into.  But they were not willing to do anything, even helping Linda to undress me!  I have been getting people to undress me at performances for decades with no problem.  But now people have forgotten that you get what you are willing to give.  And if you want nude dancing girls, take your clothes off!  They didn’t get much from the performance AND THEY WERE SATISFIED WITH THAT!  This low expectation is extremely disturbing.  Even though they watched videos of past performances, they used my videoing the performance as their reason for their NOs.  Again I have been videoing the performances for decades with no problem.  Any bets that they would open up if I turned off the camera?  And I can’t let fear dictate the performance.  Two college guys said they could only stay until nine o’clock to get home safely!  After years of playing at punk clubs and performance spaces in the dangerous parts of town, we are performing in a good neighborhood.  You are in deep shit if you are in your twenties and are that afraid!

At least Tomek played great music!

Nonfilms - Max

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Recorded in the early 1980's.

I have a deep philosophical conversation about how taking risks is a key to a happy life.  Mmmmmm, if only the people who come to the performances would watch this before coming!

Intimacy - Build, San Francisco, California, November 9, 2002

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This is another of those long laid back performances that on the surface nothing much seems to be happening...  But then...

More: https://eroplay.com/Cave/intimacy/intimacy110902.html

Nonfilms - Craig

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Recorded in the early 1980's.

Ah, two hunks!  Love my beefsteak!

Nonfilms - Eva

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Recorded in the early 1980's.

Ah, this is the classic game of how much /little we will see!  Years later she had fond memories of the shooting!

Nonfilms - Nancy

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Recorded in the early 1980's.

This is one of the most legs wide open sexy and fun nonfilms.  Nancy had been a fellow student in my performance grad class at the San Francisco art institute.  I usually didn't have on going relationships with the people we shot.  Nancy was a professional dancer.

Going Deep To The Core At Ramen #9

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Recorded OCTOBER 26, 2006 at Burnt Ramen, Richmand, California. 

 Visit the web site for this series: https://eroplay.com/goingdeeptothecore/index.html

FRANK MOORE'S CHEROTIC ALL-STAR BAND with members of Bad Karma and Man Vs. Nature.

This is an episode of GOING DEEP TO THE CORE AT RAMEN WITH FRANK MOORE which was a hard core music public access cable show.  Once a month we shot at the illegal punk club THE BURNT RAMEN in the dangerous Richmond, California the sets of two to four bands plus my interviews with the bands.  At the end of the shooting night I gathered all the bands into my CHEROTIC ALL-STAR BAND for a jam.  For this night, Bob Madigan of FLUFF GRRL fame was playing in a duet MAN VS. NATURE.  This explains why he and Ann are in the jam.  This weekend Bob passed to that ultimate jam!

More: http://eroplay.com/goingdeeptothecore/oct2006.html

Music That Smells Like Sex Jam - Kimo's, San Francisco, California, April 5, 2001

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Well, doesn't the title say it all!  Actually this was one of the early jams we did at KIMO'S.  You can tell because we still sneaked nudity and eroticism in under see through cut up costumes.  Soon we would get explicit!

Nonfilms - Helena

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Recorded in the early 1980's.

This art student from Sweden [I think] does a very unique shedding of clothes!

For more information about Frank Moore and his work visit his web site http://www.eroplay.com

Nonfilms - Andrea [Tape 4]

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Recorded in the early 1980's.

This straight looking student [we finally have a shot of the person in her street clothes to document the transformation] quickly strips to her underpants [which refused to come off] to have fun trying on sexy costumes!

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The Uncomfortable Zones Of Fun, February 4, 2012

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Recorded at Temescal Art Center, Oakland, California.

Ah, yes!  The new punked up flier worked!  It scared off the middle of the road people who want to be entertained, want a show for their night out, want to be passive with the illusion of risk within complete shells.  It may have scared off the good reviews in THE HUFFINGTON POST, etc.  But it did attract risk takers willing and ready to actively participate, explore, experience, experiment, improvise, play, etc.  So this night was very satisfying!  And people kept coming in all night!  I felt like a bartender!  The night kept going in different directions, sometimes in several different directions at once, all to the music of Kene-J [aka MY SON] and sometimes with Jason on sax.  We went through panic attacks, lame theater games, relationship fireworks which cleared some of the audience out, and into juicy erotic states.  I kept asking probing questions in my sit-down comic act on which several people commented.  I had a complex, deeply emotionally rich group of adventurous spirits to play with.  And I learned a lot.  For example, the guy who came off the street near the end of the three hours [he was just walking by and saw I was performing inside], informed me that in the 00s when he saw my jams in San Francisco, they called me THE KING OF THE LEATHER DISTRICT!  You learn something everyday!

More: https://eroplay.com/Cave/uzof/uzof-feb2012/index.html

Will Harper Interview for the East Bay Express, December 19, 2002

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I have a firm policy of videoing any time the press interviews me so I have a complete record of what I said which I can broadcast if there are distortions in the article...  Putting pressure on the journalist to get it right!  This interview was for the in-depth cover story about me in THE EAST BAY EXPRESS, the local weekly paper.  Both the interview and the article were juicy and meaty.  For the cover they used Annie Sprinkle's photo of nude body painted Linda standing beside me.  For a week that photo was on every street corner in the East bay with a big photo spread of our nude performances inside!  Although I lost some gigs from people freaking out after seeing the article, it was worth it!

You can read the full article here:
http://www.eroplay.com/ebx/index.html

Nonfilms - Roya

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Recorded in the early 1980's.

Well, sometimes nothing much happened!  This is one of those!  The sorority girl stayed just that!  But I talked her into getting me into her sorority for a day for research for a documentary about the sorority.  That day was one of my most surreal days.  I decided I wasn't up to making that documentary!

A Winter's Morning - Frank Moore's Shaman's Den

Recorded live on Sunday, January 22, 2012, Berkeley, California

These two guys flew from Seattle and rented a car just to play beautiful music in our Berkeley home. Then they flew right back to Seattle!

Pleasure Friction Of Intimacy, Part 1 - Build, San Francisco, California, October 4, 2003

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This is the first half of a six hour performance.  In my youth I did forty eight hour performances.  I like long pieces because I could slowly dig down into the juicy erotic states of pleasure arousing magical play, much deeper than the shorter performances allow.  So in this, after a couple of hours of building, tribal reality of nude bodies generating aroused melting deep dance bloomed!  And just wait until you see what happens in the second half!  [I don't know what happens!]

Part 2: https://archive.org/details/pleasurefrictionofintimacybuildpt2100403

Pleasure Friction Of Intimacy, Part 2 - Build, San Francisco, California, October 4, 2003

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Now we find out what happened! The hot erotic juicy sweaty rubbing continued, turning into a tribal community body! However the nude babes failed to undress Michael Peppe!

Part 1: https://archive.org/details/pleasurefrictionofintimacybuildpt1100403

Nonfilms- Kitsy

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Recorded in the early 1980's.

This is an example of when nudity and physical play is just a part of life!

Nonfilms - Mitsuko

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Recorded in the early 1980's.

Ah, what we have here is the illness of modesty. So we cooled our heels as she went into the other room to change. This is Linda trying with the camera to look down low cut necklines to see something.

The sound of this was extremely funky. So we put one of the chEROTIC ALL-STAR BAND jams as the sound track. I play piano!

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Music: "Global Erotic Warming"
Frank Moore - piano, vocals, chimes
Lob - bass
Tomek - keyboards, roto-toms, accordion and clarinet
Ava Bird - vocals, toys
Jen Wilson - vocals, toys
Michael LaBash - mix, live fx
The music was recorded as part of the Non Stop Music Planet 24 hour Marathon
recorded live on luver.com
Frank Moore's Shaman's Den, Saturday May 30th 2009
Berkeley, California U.S.A.

Nonfilms- Neil

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Recorded in the early 1980's.

A star [a performance artist and dancer] was born during this nonfilm! Before this shooting, Neil was a poet. But during this he got the performing bug! He became quite well-known. We shared the bill quite a few times over the years. I never have let him forget I discovered him!

Nonfilms - Bob

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Recorded in the early 1908's.

ah, sometimes you just need two sexy hunks!

The Uncomfortable Zones of Fun, January 7, 2012

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Recorded at Temescal Art Center, Oakland, California.

I like challenges! But when they make this commitment to one another before coming to the performance: “they had actually agreed ahead of time that they would not take their clothes off at the performance”… Well, wonder why they came to something that they felt the need to make such a vow for! This even goes more for those who belong to the cult of shrinks who have signed a loyalty oath to the established order! Don’t get me wrong. I like their coming! I like challenges! But then when they get righteous, then complained about nothing much happened! And they said they came to give up control in order to get to spontaneity! And of course they blamed me for their experiencing nothing much happening. In reality a lot happened!. Hot musical duets… Undressing… Shyness faded! Of course there was much more that could have happened. I remained dressed! Need I say more? Going on a long trip without your husband to cure the boredom with him! Saying you are too tired to give yourself or to have fun! Saying WELL, YOU CAN GET INTIMACY OR WHATEVER WITHOUT NUDITY [remember, intimacy is the state of being together without boundaries or limits; so it is possible to have intimacy without nudity IF THERE IS A WILLINGNESS TO DO WHATEVER IT TAKES… So if someone says WELL, YOU CAN GET INTIMACY WITHOUT NUDITY, that means that nudity is definitely needed if you want real intimacy].

More: https://eroplay.com/Cave/uzof/uzof-jan2012/index.html

The Golden Path - Frank Moore's Shaman's Den

Recorded October 2011.

How did I get so lucky that bands like this from all over the world come to play in my house?

Inner Travelling - Northwest Artists Workshop, Portland, Oregon, Feb. 18, 1989

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I think we only videod the first part of this performance.  The gallery had me as part of its erotic exhibition.  I am only visible in the last five minutes of this video when I sing a few songs [even one with Cher].  I was in an old bank vault for most of the performance.  The real stars of this video are the expressions on the faces of the audience before and after the nude body painted dancers blindfolded each and had led each into who knew where to do what!  Oh the stoned Bliss!

Nonfilms - Barbara #1

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Recorded in the early 1980's.

This is simply the ultimate nonfilm!  If you have to watch just one of the NONFILMS, this is the one to watch!  Barbara got what I was after on an extremely deep level and she dived into it without limits.  So it is erotic, juicy, fun, cozy, explicit playful, lusty, free, joyous, liberated!  And she was the only one who came back to do several more nonfilms... 

Nonfilms - Colin

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Recorded in the early 1980's.

and sometimes not much appeared to be happening!

Nonfilms - Andrea

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Recorded in the early 1980's.

This is another of the most juicy fun erotic of the nonfilms.  She plays with me on the bed and in the tub, among other things!

Andrea was the only one of the subjects to come to the premier of EROTIC PLAY [ https://archive.org/details/eroticplay ] at the University of California Berkeley.  She even brought her kid.  But she was not pleased, to put it mildly, that she was not in the cut!  You see how much raw footage I had to cut.  But she apparently forgave me because years later she produced a performance event at the Berkeley Veterans' Building with Scarlet Harlot and me sharing the bill.

Nonfilms - Laurel

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Recorded in the early 1980's.

This is simply one of the most juicy, fun, erotic of the nonfilms.  Laurel was a secretary at the university who came on her lunch hour to be videod.  She looked straight when she came in...  BUT...!

In The Mess - Raw Footage

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 This is the complete performance that I edited a collage from [see https://archive.org/details/inthemess-1984 ].  This includes a couple of minor blue screens.  But it also includes me trying to get somebody [females]   in the audience to to be in the mess with me.  Failing that I go out of the room into the hall in search of a brave woman!  I finally find one!  [Or is she really a plant who I worked with before?]

This also includes the messy aftermath and clean up!

Santa Frank & Erika the Elf

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Recorded in 2004.

Well, we have saved the best Xmas special for the last!  It puts the X in Xmas!  It starts with Erika the elf in a mini- mini elf costume with her legs over me as we sing Christmas carols together.  But at some point it melted into an intensive uncontrollable altered state of a giggling fit as Erika tried to read my serious Christmas poem.  Linda finally came from behind  the  camera to dance /make love with us.  Everything got erotic surreal extremely intimate slow deep turned on and went on and on!  Ah, if you want warm juicy Christmas Spirit, watch this for sexy joy!

The Uncomfortable Zones Of Fun, December 16, 2011

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Recorded at Temescal Art Center, Oakland, California.

The last performance of the year was an example of how nobody knows what a performance is doing.  The audience doesn’t know how deep the experience can be if everybody is willing to play together deeper than the normal reasonable world allows.  So they get filled up at the performance because a lot happens at the performance that doesn’t happen at the normal night out entertainment.  But we performers know how deep it could get.  So when it doesn’t go there, it feels to us like nothing much happened.  I know I keep saying DON’T HAVE PICTURES!  But…

So the performance was one of those!  And at the end of the night, Linda, Erika and I danced erotic together nude just to get juicy sweaty rubbing reality, suck it all up so to subvert the surface social limits.  Sometimes you just have to do that to make it all worthwhile!  Then I came up with ideas how to punk up the flier to make it more scary!

Then on THE HUFFINGTON POST, we read a review of the performance saying how life supporting, uplifting, etc it was!  Who am I to argue?

More: http://www.eroplay.com/Cave/uzof/uzof-dec2011/index.html

There is no place like home for the holidays!

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Recorded in December 2007.

Ah yes!  Me in front of the cozy fire with my pussy singing Christmas carols as my two hot nude elves [ok, one has an extremely short dress on with no panties on] feeding the fire.  What a life!

Nonfilms - Meg

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Recorded in the early 1980's.

Meg was a sexy if very modest little person [dwarf].  She went to extreme measures not to show what she thought shouldn't be shown.  We rarely ran into the people after the nonfilm shootings.  But Meg lives in our new neighborhood.  So we run into her fairly often.  She married a photographer for whom she models nude.  When EROTIC PLAY [ https://archive.org/details/eroticplay ] played on my Berkeley community public access cable TV show, her husband gave her a hard time for being so modest.  The moral: SHOW YOUR STUFF!

EXtreme Elvis & Frank Moore & Jordana HOLIDAY SPECIAL with Xtian - Frank Moore's Shaman's Den

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recorded on December 25, 2002.

This is another of our Xmas specials.  The idea behind this one was Extreme Elvis and I would sing Christmas Songs together which were on Elvis's Christmas cd. EE brought along a hot babe to impress.  And Xtian [aka Christian Lunch] dropped  by with his girlfriend.  But it quickly became obvious that EE didn't know the words!  So it quickly became extremely surreal, outrageous, funny, drunk on the hard cider or whatever.  At one point he and I compared cocks to see which was smaller.  Then we basically made out together....  Very hot!  Very scary, having that kind of bulk on my person!  Years later he tried to block it from his memory!  BUT HERE IS THE PROOF!

Nonfilms - Laurie R PART TWO

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Recorded in the early 1980's.

In part two, Laurie and I continue to play together nude on the bed, having fun, cozy, rubbing bodies, wrestling gently.

BLACK XMASS - C.W. Saloon, San Francisco, California, December 23, 2001

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This is when THE CHURCH OF SATAN had us perform at their Christmas black mass.  We ended up freaking out the daughter of Anton LaVey!  I am not sure why.  We were much less explicit back then!  Maybe it was because we used a dead Tibetan monk's thighbone as a clarinet.  PART TIMERS!

This is actually the second in my Christmas special videos.  I put the first [ http://vimeo.com/24034209 ] up on vimeo seven months ago after youtube kept taking my videos down!

Nonfilms - Laurie R PART ONE

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Recorded in the early 1980's.

Laurie was a follower of the purple sexual guru.  So at first she and I talked deeply about using expanded sex as a spiritual doorway.  So we see her as she came into the session before playing.  The playing was sexy, warm, juicy, and fun.

After we put up a nonfilm on vimeo, I have to fast forward through it to remember what happened during it over twenty-five years ago to do this write-up.  I noticed this ends abruptly while she and I are giving each other sexy back rubs nude on the bed.  So we checked the next tape.  THERE IS A PART TWO!  SO STAY TUNED!

Web Of Passion, Part 1 - Build, San Francisco, California - June 8, 2002

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This was an historic performance in many ways.  It turned out to be our last six hour performance.  [In my younger days I did forty eight hour performances!] This also turned out to be the last time I got on the mat at the performances.  But I made it a good ending by introducing TANSEX by playing hot explicitly with Alex.  Also this was Erika’s very first performance of mine!  In fact the audience was full of cast members going back to the OUTRAGEOUS BEAUTY REVUE days…  Even Extreme Elvis in his CLARK KENT persona brought a hot babe to impress!

Here is what I wrote back then:

it really is hard to write about because it was a nonlinear night that created itself...on the surface nothing much happened for hours....me drinking water, talking to people who packed the small [great] space. they arrived on time...that never happens...so i didn't have time before they came. no assholes came...or came in...on the video of it you can hear assholes outside the door all through the night, but they never came in...the force field worked! inside, the web was there from the beginning...all of us wanted to go deep and small, revealing. so i sat without my board, linda translating me/feisto. a room of amazing people telling/revealing their stories. nude teresa throughout  the night kept going from person to person, feeling/touching under clothes beyond taboos, using her blindness to weave a web of comfort. she was the base line. actually the performance was rooted, made possible, expanded from my explorations with teresa, alex, jennifer, and erika over the last year.

there was always a lot of small things happening all the time in a relaxed reality....so we sat around eating chocolate cake, teresa crawling exploring bodies, a woman going around collecting piss, blood, hair, and i don't know what else for a magical art package as a kid's musical toy played as a guy described passionately the chrome fucking machine he was making for the dadafest. and that was the "intermission break" if we were in theater rather than a communal trance. i swear, i was trapped sunday for 6 hours watching the video of the night...i couldn't move! very near the end of the performance night, alex and i played very deep erotic small human rubbing into each other's body rocking as my story MAGICAL CAVE LOVERS was played on tape and slides of my 30 years of performances were projected on the wall. [funny...i saw on the video that people didn't watch alex and me, but were focused on the slides.] alex and me were a powerful generator of possibilities in the whole night, combining with teresa's exploring throughout the night. at the middle of the performance, i asked teresa, alex, and erika to talk about their working with me and how it has effected their life work. they talked very deeply, pulling the whole performance in much deeper...so deep it made it possible to do the ritual that we always had done before within the hidden/secret cave of lila. the whole room became the cave of lila. this made it possible to video this ritual. it hasn't been possible to video this ritual before. it is extremely beautiful, melting bodies together...at the end there are magical shots of hands moving/dancing together.

PART 2:

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Web Of Passion, Part 2 - Build, San Francisco, California - June 8, 2002

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This was an historic performance in many ways. It turned out to be our last six hour performance. [In my younger days I did forty eight hour performances!] This also turned out to be the last time I got on the mat at the performances. But I made it a good ending by introducing TANSEX by playing hot explicitly with Alex. Also this was Erika’s very first performance of mine! In fact the audience was full of cast members going back to the OUTRAGEOUS BEAUTY REVUE days… Even Extreme Elvis in his CLARK KENT persona brought a hot babe to impress!

Here is what I wrote back then:

it really is hard to write about because it was a nonlinear night that created itself...on the surface nothing much happened for hours....me drinking water, talking to people who packed the small [great] space. they arrived on time...that never happens...so i didn't have time before they came. no assholes came...or came in...on the video of it you can hear assholes outside the door all through the night, but they never came in...the force field worked! inside, the web was there from the beginning...all of us wanted to go deep and small, revealing. so i sat without my board, linda translating me/feisto. a room of amazing people telling/revealing their stories. nude teresa throughout the night kept going from person to person, feeling/touching under clothes beyond taboos, using her blindness to weave a web of comfort. she was the base line. actually the performance was rooted, made possible, expanded from my explorations with teresa, alex, jennifer, and erika over the last year.

there was always a lot of small things happening all the time in a relaxed reality....so we sat around eating chocolate cake, teresa crawling exploring bodies, a woman going around collecting piss, blood, hair, and i don't know what else for a magical art package as a kid's musical toy played as a guy described passionately the chrome fucking machine he was making for the dadafest. and that was the "intermission break" if we were in theater rather than a communal trance. i swear, i was trapped sunday for 6 hours watching the video of the night...i couldn't move! very near the end of the performance night, alex and i played very deep erotic small human rubbing into each other's body rocking as my story MAGICAL CAVE LOVERS was played on tape and slides of my 30 years of performances were projected on the wall. [funny...i saw on the video that people didn't watch alex and me, but were focused on the slides.] alex and me were a powerful generator of possibilities in the whole night, combining with teresa's exploring throughout the night. at the middle of the performance, i asked teresa, alex, and erika to talk about their working with me and how it has effected their life work. they talked very deeply, pulling the whole performance in much deeper...so deep it made it possible to do the ritual that we always had done before within the hidden/secret cave of lila. the whole room became the cave of lila. this made it possible to video this ritual. it hasn't been possible to video this ritual before. it is extremely beautiful, melting bodies together...at the end there are magical shots of hands moving/dancing together.

PART 1: https://archive.org/details/webofpassion-part1-060802

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Nonfilms - Margo

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Recorded in the early 1980's.

This nonfilm shows how things can go from sexy aroused fun to tears of sorrow and back again in a fraction of a second in the altered state of elation of a private performance.

Nonfilms - John

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Recorded in the early 1980's.

Well, believe it or not, the hunk who carried me around in this nonfilm was actually a law professor!

Toni Ivashkov/Pollenland - Frank Moore's Shaman's Den

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Recorded November 25, 2011.

For this episode of THE SHAMAN'S DEN, the performance artist,  Toni ivashkov [and the inspiration for my painting http://www.eroplay.com/Cave/digital/toni.html] came up from Los Angeles with two of her troupe to be on my show.  It was great.  Almost everybody ended up [after a deep conversation] nude singing songs in Russian as a ballerina danced!  Unfortunately we ran out of time!   She also has a great little book of her paintings of her pussy.

LETTERMAN AND LENO, EAT YOUR HEARTS OUT!

The Uncomfortable Zones of Fun, November 19, 2011

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Recorded at Temescal Art Center, Oakland, California.

Well, this one was perfectly cast to observe and confront what I call THE COMBINE PLOT.  In the late eighties I wrote: 

It is important to understand the nature of the general plot of fragmentation, the combine plot.  I took the word "combine" from the novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey.  In the book, the combine is a fear machine network which secretly installed pacemakers of fear, doubt, and mistrust in almost everyone in childhood.  This made people much easier to control.  It isolates people into cells padded with fear and doubt, making the people part of the combine.  There are some misfits whom the combine missed with its fear pacemakers.  In others, the fear pacemakers blow their fuses.  These people without the fear pacemakers are very dangerous to the combine because if they are not checked, destroyed, discredited, isolated, or enfolded into the combine, they can show others how to blow out their own fear pacemakers, can show others how to be free humans linked to other free humans.  The combine rarely has to directly destroy the misfits itself.  Just direct eliminations would reveal the existence of the combine.  So such direct eliminations are kept to the minimum.  The real tool of the combine is a vague sense of uncomfortableness, of inferiority, and of mistrust within the victims of the combine.  The setting of the novel is a mental ward in which most of the patients are self‑committed.  They believe themselves weak, unable to cope with the outside world.  They believe the fear comes from themselves, not from the pacemakers.  They just have to start believing in themselves, and they could pull out the pacemakers and walk out of the hospital.  But every time they reach this threshold of freedom, the combine, by clever remote manipulation, turns up the vague uncomfortableness and mistrust.  The victims themselves do the destroying of the misfit either in themselves or that con man pied piper who laughs at their fears and limits, who shows them the way to freedom.  It is the victims who do most of the censoring.

One of the main functions of art is to be that misfit who reveals and fights against the combine, to show the way back to freedom and self‑trust.  

In the audience there were a group of four young psych students who had basically been forced to sign a loyalty oath to The Combine Plot to go to school.  They had internalized this as a fear that if they violated the loyalty oath in ways they couldn’t pin down, they would be kicked out of the school.  Their fear of undressing me became a tool for examining this box of “PROFESSIONALISM”.  Also there were a couple of professors who train social workers.  At one point the female professor told us that typically students have to  unlearn around fifty percent of what they learned in college after college to live.  Also in the audience was a cute lusty pair of lovers who provided the erotic juice for the night.  The hot babe turned out to be seventy one years old!  Also at one point a family with a kid came in.  I just told them there was nudity and eroticism in the piece.  They had no problem with that!  I have noticed from watching videos of performances in other countries that people bring their kids to edgy performances, unlike in this country.  

I had the student who had been a nurse read my poem OUT OF ISOLATION, which is about breaking out of the isolation of PROFESSIONALISM into warm human love.  She almost cried.  

Early in the piece, I had my poem NO CAN NOTS read.  I wrote it for a class of pre- med students.  It sums up what I was trying to get through to the psych students.  But the reading was garbled.  So here is the poem: 

NO CAN NOTS

By

FRANK MOORE

Sunday, April 28, 2002

Talking to future healers

                                                & teachers

                                                                        & maybe future        

                        muckrakers & troublemakers

Well, 

            Not really future

                                    Because hopefully

                                                                        You are doing IT

                                                                                                            RIGHT NOW!

Hopefully       

                        I’m not talking to the future guards

                                                                        Of the corporate normalcy

                                    Armed with can nots,

                                                            Limiting futures from birth,

                        Enforcing coloring only within the lines,

                        Enforcing doing everything

                                                                        THE RIGHT WAY

                                                                        THE NORMAL WAY

To turn the intensity of what had happened in the performance back into the physical intimacy, we did an erotic dance ritual which became more and more explicit, direct, raw.  Linda, Erika and I kept falling into prickly rubbing aroused pleasure friction deep as the audience all left.  For all you know, we are still at it!  Performance art is like that!  

In Freedom,

Frank Moore

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