Afrodite Superstar Opening Sequence With DJ Buttafly

This is the opening to the featurette Afrodite Superstar directed by Venus Hottentot and Executive Produced by Candida Royalle. Read more here: http://www.abiolaabrams.com/id138.html
Afrodite Superstar was nominated for 7 AVN Awards-- Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Actors and Best Music.

AFRODITE SUPERSTAR (Experimental Comedy Featurette) 2007, is a feminist empowerment erotica film that Abiola Abrams directed under the name Venus Hottentot. The sexual scenes were directed by Candida Royalle, the executive producer of the film. The film has been endorsed by Essence Magazine, The Village Voice, and the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists, Feminists for Free Expression. Afrodite Superstar premiered at the New School for Social Research and was featured in the art exhibit Hos, Putas and Dragon Ladies: Our Sexuality Remixed at the Chashama Gallery in NYC.

The objective of the film is reclaiming the sexual voice and expression of women of color. Abiola joins Larry Clark, Matthew Barney, John Cameron Mitchell, Michael Winterbottom, Gore Vidal (Destricted, Shortbus, 9 Songs, Caligula) as filmmakers seeking to make intelligent mainstream work with explicit sexual content. Abiola has called it a sex education film for the hip hop generation. Others have called it an African American Red Shoes Diaries. Afrodite Superstar has been nominated for 7 2007 AVN Awards including Best Director, Best Musical Score, and Best Screenplay.

The Story: The plot of Afrodite Superstar centers around Afrodite, a young Beverly Hills socialite confused by the media images of what is sexy and what is "hot". She tries everything from donning a blonde wig to blue contacts in an effort to be what the magazines and videos show as beautiful. No one is what they seem to be in this strange, new fairytale world, with the gun-slinging "gangsta" rapper having a degree from Yale and her "stock" plummeting by the day. Hopefully, Afrodite can find strength without losing herself as the experimental film consciously parodies some of the recent celebrity antics from wardrobe malfunctions, keeping it "real" music videos to sex tapes. Often, there is no stronger way to educate than to hold up a comedic mirror.

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