Ekstase (Gustav Machaty, 1933)

I wrote a post about Hedy Lamarr on my blog not long ago. Her story is kind of crazy. She was the first performer to deliver an on screen female orgasm, and you can actually see her nipples in this film (imagine the fuss back in the '30s!). But she was also an inventor, and had a US patent for a technology that apparently has been crucial in developing WIFI afterwards! Anyway, this black and white film is very beautiful, unbelievably modern, and I grabbed some inspiration here to shoot ​Spectrophilia (especially the closeups of Lamarr's face while she's supposedly orgasming).