The Erotic Films of Peter de Rome

"Peter DeRome’s film career started as a private affair. Picking up an 8mm camera in the mid-’60s, De Rome produced a set of painstakingly crafted, atmospheric sexual scenarios for the amusement of himself and his friends. After much urging, he entered one of the shorts, Hot Pants, to the 1971 Wet Dream Film Festival in Amsterdam. The film took first prize. Hand and Hand Films producer Jack Deveau saw the films and convinced DeRome to collect se... more

"Peter DeRome’s film career started as a private affair. Picking up an 8mm camera in the mid-’60s, De Rome produced a set of painstakingly crafted, atmospheric sexual scenarios for the amusement of himself and his friends. After much urging, he entered one of the shorts, Hot Pants, to the 1971 Wet Dream Film Festival in Amsterdam. The film took first prize. Hand and Hand Films producer Jack Deveau saw the films and convinced DeRome to collect several of the shorts, blow them up to 16mm, and release them commercially as The Erotic Films Of Peter DeRome. DeRome shot most of the films over a period of five years, in France, Spain, England, and the US. The edgy subway-sex study Underground was shot especially for the collection." From the press notes, courtesy of Bijou. less