The project was developed by Thomas Meier of the Norwegian company Multiformat, who used generative AI tools to transform 1976 magazine photo spreads into full motion video with colour, synchronised sound, dialogue and voice-over. A physical release on BluRay and VHS will follow from Klubb Super 8, including a limited VHS edition.

Cannes festival screened a restored print of Ken Russell’s The Devils (1971), a film that faced censorship on its original release and remains a touchstone for debates around artistic freedom and the depiction of sexuality on screen.

The films land amid growing academic and curatorial interest in vintage erotica.

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Tarantino’s New Beverly Cinema in Los Angeles presented an “Eros” season paying tribute to the theater’s history as an adult cinema in the 1970s.

The Swedish Film Institute’s Cinemateket, meanwhile, hosted Svenska Synden, a retrospective examining how Swedish cinema’s permissive approach to nudity and sexuality became an international phenomenon that alarmed censors around the world.

Cultpix launched in April 2021 and positions itself as the world’s largest cult and genre streaming platform – one that has championed the movies that populated drive-in and grindhouse circuits, from horror and science fiction to martial arts and spaghetti westerns.

The platform has maintained a curated strand of vintage erotica in collaboration with specialist rights holders including Something Weird Video and Vinegar Syndrome.