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Slippery Blisses
200042 min 27 secFilm: Documentary
Direction: Jeannette Loakman
Production: Silva BasmajianLouise Lore
A highly efficient method of analyzing a prospective mate's genetic information; a means of acquiring chemicals that stimulate the brain's pleasure centres; a delightful moment. A kiss is all that and more! Bringing our senses of touch, smell and taste together with powerful emotions, kissing is one of our most complex and delicate activities--and one of the simplest to participate in. Meet a quirky cast of experts--an ethologist who claims we are addicted to kissing, a sex therapist who sees kissing as the key to better sex, and a professor who teaches university students how to kiss in wildly popular audience-participation seminars. Punctuated with hundreds of kisses and hilarious old movie footage, Slippery Blisses blends science and sensuality to answer a couple of deceptively straightforward questions: What is a kiss? And what makes it magical? Travelling across North America, with a visit to Paris--the world's most romantic city--Slippery Blisses reveals that there's nothing simple about a simple kiss.
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Subject categories
- Sexuality and Reproduction > Interpersonal Relationships
Credits
- director
- Jeannette Loakman
- producer
- Silva Basmajian
- editor
- Steve Weslak
- cinematographer
- Rudolf Blahacek
- sound recordist
- Robert Fletcher
- executive producer
- Louise Lore
- narration - writer
- Bill Cameron
- sound editor
- Alan Geldart
- narrator
- Julie Khaner
- additional cinematography
- Richard Fox
- Ihor Macijiwsky
- Jim Mercer
- Jeannette Loakman
- Kemp Archibald
- Derek Vertongen
- additional sound recordist
- Michael Kennedy
- Chris Davies
- Brent Haliskie
- Peter Sawade
- Andrew Johnston
- assistant picture editor
- Irina Vigdortchik
- assistant sound editor
- Alyssa Ryvers
- production supervisor
- Kemp Archibald
- unit administrator
- Ida Di Fruscia
- production manager
- Jeff Sterne
- Jacques Baird
- Beverly Haffner
- production administration assistant
- Melissa Preston
- visual research
- Marianne Kushmaniuk
- Tanya Fleet
- visual clearances
- Marianne Kushmaniuk
- illustrations
- Marianne Kushmaniuk
- narration recording
- George Novotny
- online editor
- Andrew Mandziuk
- colourist
- Sue Chambers
- title graphics
- Kevin D. Barendregt
- opening montage
- Terry Rose
- motion control
- Leona Vitolouva
- technical assistant
- James Fiege
- technical intern
- Kevin Drysdale
- gaffer labour
- Rob Mattassa
- Greg Shean
- makeup artist
- Mary Monforte
- administration assistant
- Joanne Forrest
- production assistant
- Eva Ziemsen
- Eric Jacobsen
- Tina Hahn
- music clearances
- Ann Mayall
- original music
- André Vincelli
- music - performance
- André Vincelli
- Jason Lang
- re-recording mixer
- George Novotny
- Brian Lavalley