Headshot

Erotic independent filmmaker Jennifer Lyon Bell's first film Headshot does in fact not show any explicit sex; yet its sexiness rises up into the frame from what the viewer doesn't actually see. A ten-minute short, Headshot (2006) literally shows a man from his shoulders up — as he's getting a blowjob. As Jennifer has explained, the point with this film is to show how it can be erotic not so much because of what you see, but because of what you do not see.

We hear a woman enter through a door, and the man briefly speaks with her before she kneels down in front of him. We only catch a glimpse of the back of her head. Then there's the sound of her sucking and pumping. But first and foremost the man's face is in full view and speaks to the viewer: the shivering contractions of his features, the expression in his eyes, his breath, moans, sighs; how his face shuts and opens when he comes, his big charming smiles afterward, and the look of WoW! that he radiates.

Headshot screened at Cannes Short Film Corner in 2006, and at the Institute of Contemporary Art in London in 2007 in conjunction with the above-mentioned Destricted project. Headshot won the award for Best Short Erotic Film at the Atlanta Underground Film Festival (2009).

Another unique viewing experience by Jennifer Lyon Bell.