Four Chambers Presents at PFFB: ECHO CHAMBER & SOME REDDISH WORK

ECHO CHAMBER

Sex in the hall of mirrors.

“The function of the mirror was… to make woman connive in treating herself as, first and foremost, a sight.” — John Berger, Ways of Seeing

Echo Chamber is Four Chambers’ experiment in sex, self-image and spectacle. A film and an installation in one: a mirrored box that traps its occupants in an infinite hall of their own reflections. Overstimulating, claustrophobic, seductive - the space forces performers to confront themselves as both voyeur and exhibitionist, observer and observed.

Inside the box, there is no escape from the gaze, both your own, and that of an invisible audience peering through two-way mirrors. Sex here becomes both display and distortion: bodies multiply to infinity, pleasure reverberates off the glass, the self is mirrored, refracted and endlessly scrutinised.

As camgirls evolved into streamers, and selfie rolls filled with near-identical poses, so too did the technology of desire evolve and reshape not only how we fuck but how we watch ourselves fucking. Four Chambers’ Echo Chamber asks: What happens when the tools of self-exposure turn back on us? What is left when the image overtakes the flesh? 

A self-made spectacle. A museum vitrine. A Francis Bacon space-frame rendered in reflective panels, pinning performers like insects under glass.

Shot with and starring Vex Ashley, Kali Sudhra, Bishop Black, and Master Aaron. Echo Chamber is both confession and critique: an autoerotic maze for the digital age. Read more and watch the trailer here. 

SOME REDDISH WORK

"I want to open myself."

To run, to scream, to fuck, to come undone, to tear yourself apart.

For 'mad' women, and all the ways they find to escape.

Last Halloween, Four Chambers’ released their new spellbinding film Some Reddish Work ~ a fever dream of sex and hysteria, the film draws on mythos of the witch trials, and the ways in which women's desire has always been pathologised, punished and feared.

Haunted by references of: The Crucible, Robert Egger’s VVitch, through to Silvia Federici’s Caliban and the Witch, the film moves through the viscera of history: where the devil’s mark meets the body’s own rebellion.

Set in the 1600s, a fertile ground for exploring that feeling: the height of fear around witches, the devil, and women’s unseen malign energies. Scenes include an orgy of bodies writhing by fire, stolen sex acts in the barn, unsure of where one starts and begins, haunting and unease.

“Being a woman often feels like straining at the seams that hold your sanity together, something howling inside you that you can’t name or even look at directly. A restless ache, an intensity of feeling. 

A knowledge that something inside of you must be wrong and you have to do everything in your power to prevent it leaking out. Desire, growing inside you and waiting to burst out and unstick the foundations of your being.”

Filmed on Ashlack Estate in Cumbria, Some Reddish Work, is a homage to camp British B-movie horrors of the 1970s, to House of Psychotic Women, to the wilderness of the North - and the wildness within.

Shot with and starring Vex Ashley, Maria Riot, Marcus Quillan, Cora. Read more and watch the the trailer here.

Written and Directed by Vex Ashley

Produced by Four Chambers

Production Support: Helena Whittingham, Sean Mur, Valerie

Photography by Valerie

Music by Rowan Gatherer (Goblin band), Cinder Well, Supplicate (Thou), One Leg One Eye (Lankum)

ABOUT FOUR CHAMBERS

Four Chambers is a creative pornography project blending cinema and sexuality. Known for pushing boundaries and exploring the intricate relationship between sex and the human condition, Four Chambers creates films that transcend the pornographic genre.

Headed by performer, Vex Ashley and self taught in film making with an emphasis on collaborative DIY practices; Four Chambers now exists alongside a new wave of creators making contemporary pornographic work from a new perspective.

The project remains deliberately ambiguous, rejecting labels for both their films and performers, existing in-between genres of both art and pornography and dismissing the need for a definition of either. Exploring themes of technology, symbolism, mythology and alchemy and their intrinsic intersection with sex and part of the growing decentralisation from traditional adult industry business, Four Chambers is independent, DIY, conceptual, pornography cinema.

Watch the film and read more: afourchamberedheart.com