Slippery Blisses

200042 min 27 secFilm: Documentary

G

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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  • 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