Exclusive: Voluptuous Biker Babes gallery

For last week’s SF Chronicle column I had the opportunity to interview the incredible April Flores and Carlos Batts about their new porn film Voluptuous Biker Babes, and I also got to ask April what she thinks about people who say fat ain’t sexy. And she rocks. After the snip, there’s a jump and a bunch of stills Carlos sent me; click them to get ’em nice and big. Snip from New Wave Russ Meyer – Violet Blue: Voluptuous Biker Babes Invade San Francisco:

When I first discovered the gorgeous, glorious curves of Fatty Delicious (April Flores, fattyd.com, link NSFW) she was performing in a short porn scene with one of my favorite porn stars Belladonna, and I was quick to get the first post about the supersized sexbomb onto Fleshbot. Years later, with her lover and life partner filmmaker and fine artist Carlos Batts, Flores is starring in films that are more than literal tributes to cult, sexploitation filmmaking legend Russ Meyer. In fact, their newest film “Voluptuous Biker Babes” is not just a neo-modern revisioning of “Faster Pussycat, Kill! Kill!” but was also shot on the original location.

Flores and Batts were just in town at Good Vibes (goodvibes.com) promoting their new film, the fleshy, explicit, man-eating “Voluptuous Biker Babes.” I got a minute to ask them several questions about not just the film, but what the success of films like theirs mean to mainstream porn (it’s an Adam & Eve production), and what April thinks of all that fat vs. sexy stereotyping women face in our day-to-day lives.

Violet Blue: Carlos, you bring your fine art background to porn. You’ve been working with mainstream companies but making porn that’s way different than anything else out there — to much acclaim. What are you doing with porn that no one else is?

Carlos Batts: As a filmmaker I received my first review in Film Threat Video Guide in the “Banned Issue” when I was 19. My goal has always been to create feature-length films. I feel closer to that having directed and produced 5 movies in one year (“Voluptuous Life,” “Young Hollywood,” “Kiss Attack,” “Voluptuous Biker Babes,” and “Glamazons.”) Just having the experience of completing those projects in that amount of time made my filmmaking ability stronger. I wanted to experiment with making my films look like feature-length music videos with good sex. I never really approached it as porn. Jeff Koons, Andy Warhol, and Terry Richardson all had a sexual period in their work. Porn is an industry and a genre like horror, drama and comedy. I am motivated to make a film that is interesting and that excites people.

Prior to shooting my first roll of film for magazines like Taboo and Leg World, I photographed hardcore punk metal bands on the east coast and handmade photo collages for book covers and pop magazines like VIBE, COMPLEX, and WARP. I mainly considered my work erotic, sexy or authentic. My photographic and multimedia work is so far outside of porn that I have the freedom to do things other people would not consider. I think through time people have accepted many complex ideas about sex and art. (…read more, sfgate.com)