The Weirdos and the Oddballs AKA Zora Knows Best (1971) - Eduardo Cemano

Plot Synopsis:
Two phony sexologists place an ad in a Greenwich Village newspaper and practice their "therapies" on the gullible young couples who answer it.

Madame Zenobia (1973) - Eduardo Cemano

Director Eduardo Cemano is one of the visionaries of adult film. A former commercial artist he segued into pornographic features in 1971, just as New York City (and 42nd Street) were about to be flooded by a wave of “one-day wonders”, cheap sex films from the West Coast shot in a day, edited together and distributed to makeshift cinemas and sex shops. Cemano was fascinated by the possibilities of including explicit sexual imagery into a narrative feature – or, more specifically, introducing plot and character into an explicit sex film – and when approached by nudist-movie legend Doris Wishman to make some original one-day wonders in New York to compete with the material sent over from California, Cemano eagerly directed two of the first porno feature films to emerge from New York: Millie’s Homecoming (aka Lady Zazu’s Daughter) and The Weirdos and the Oddballs (aka Zora Knows Best). From improvised screwball comedy shot for $1000 in one day to luxuriant, thematically complex adult drama, Cemano’s films played to enthusiastic audiences throughout New York, making him the most inventive, dynamic and complex adult filmmaker on the East Coast during the early 1970s. Working with some of the finest talents in the industry, Cemano swore only one thing: in his pornography, there would be no suggestion of rape, force, coercion or the demeaning objectification of women. To him, pornography was a visionary new genre, free from moral restraint and offering women a true and empowering liberation from Patriarchal constraint!