Through the Porn Cycle
Porn documentaries have become a gay-cinema sub genre in the past decade, and now one of them has its own sequel. Jochen Hick's 1997 doc Sex/Life in L.A. was well received on the film-festival circuit, in big-city art-house theaters, and eventually on DVD. It told the stories of several gay porn stars and sex workers as they moved through their daily routines, both on the sex clock and off.

Hick's follow-up feature, Cycles of Porn: Sex/Life in L.A. Part 2, which just debuted at the Berlin Film Fest, casts its light on a new crop of fledgling porn stars, as well as on the post-porn lives of men who leave the sex-work industry behind.

The where-are-they-now personalities include former stars Cole Tucker, now a real-estate agent, and Kevin Kramer, seen in the film struggling to get by as a video-store clerk. Look for it to pop up at gay and lesbian film fests later this year.