Career
Blake has been inducted into both the AVN and XRCO Halls of Fame and is a medal recipient from the Worldfest-Houston International Film Festival. Andrew Blake began his career working on movies for Playboy, but shifted to working independently in the 1990s. Blake"s films usually feature original music scores by the composer Raoul Valve.
Blake has described his work as "erotic fashion," and his films usually include fetish, bondage, and lesbian imagery, often excluding heterosexual intercourse entirely.
Blake"s earliest films were primarily works of softcore erotica, however, and that sensibility still informs his pacing and style. Early films made by Blake soon after he came into his own as an independent director are fully explicit and usually combine heterosexual intercourse with lesbian imagery while including much less fetish and bondage content than his later films.
An interview with Blake is included in the 9 to 5 – Days in Porn (2009) documentary film about the American porn industry. Andrew Blake"s films are characterized by high production values, artistic stylization, and rigorous technique.
His style has been compared to that of the seminal fashion photographer Helmut Newton, and described as "decadent, lush, opulent, unfailingly arousing, moneyed and sophisticated."
Sex writer Violet Blue says of Blake"s work: "lieutenant"s a whole different genre of explicit erotic filmmaking evident from the first frame -- pure high fashion, glossy candyland fantasy.
lieutenant is luxuriously designed from nip tip to toe. And it"s stylish as hell."
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