HOLY EROTICA
healING wounding around religioN and pornograpHY.
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NATHANAEL L. NOVERO, FILMMAKER
HOLY EROTICA | THE FILM STUDIES
HOLY EROTICA
THE FILM STUDIES
“These erotic film studies, though produced by me, a man, is primarily FOR WOMEN.. MY PROCESS ON THE OTHER HAND, RELATES TO MEN.” - n / O
Women need a safe space to self-actualize. Where they can arouse and open each other in innocence, in carnality, in celebration, in Divine purity. For me, the container that the camera creates for this expression are TEMPLE-SPACES, holy spaces grounded in prayer and intention FOR HEALING, not owned or controlled or claimed by men. As a former minister, this approach to a woman’s erotic innocence changed my life. I found a new context for all the fundamentalist principles I carried: to hold eroticism. When women are nourished and held in these spaces, they give back to a world suffocating in shame.
Spaces like this have existed for generations, hidden from the public, kept secret from institutions of religion, below the radar of men. In forests. In caves. In ESOTERIC ritual. IN MODERN TIMES, THIS WORK IS COMMONLY EXPRESSED IN THE EROTIC ARTS — pole-dancing, burlesque, SHIBARI, etc.
Without context, many of these healing practices are demonized as being Satanic or pornographic. When in actuality, these are spaces cultivated by women seeking refuge from the men who have abused, raped, and murdered them “in the name of God”.
Through these films, I’ve learned that by worshiping Her — the erotic feminine of God — I can behold the limitlessness of FEMININE EROTIC INNOCENCE. She no longer overwhelms me. Instead, I delight in Her like I delight in God.
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THE PURPOSE OF THESE EROTIC FILM STUDIES is to create a space adjacent to mainstream culture — AS ART — so that this sacred expression can exist somewhere FOR THOSE WHO WANT TO EMBODY OR BEHOLD; to liberate a world shackled in shame.
The HOLY EROTICA FILM STUDIES are archived for a PUBLIC EXHIBITION. Until then, its showcased in a members-only gallery where content and conversation are cultivated inwardly with one another, a community of muses, co-filmmakers, and space-holders endearingly called the CHURCH OF THE FEMININE.
I BELIEVE REVIVAL IN CHRIST’S CHURCH IS AN EROTIC ONE, WHERE WE CONFRONT OUR SHAME IN CHRIST’S NAME. I BELIEVE A WOMAN’S EROTIC NATURE IS HOLY, HEALING, AND NOURISHING FOR THE WORLD, NOT TO BE SHAMED OR OWNED, BUT TREATED WITH REVERENCE, RESPECT, AND PROTECTED BY MEN.
