Content area
Full text
RESTORATION ROW
A titillating, low-budget movie became a model for experimental freedom
Nude on the Moon
Doris Wishman (as "Anthony Brooks"), 1961,4K preservation by the American Genre Film Archive (AGFA)
THE INTREPID EXPLOITATION FILMMAKER DORIS WISHMAN remembered the "nudies" she made in the early 1960s with an almost nostalgic fondness. "You know that these pictures had no sex at all," she told an interviewer in 1974. "There was no contact, there was no kissing, hand holding, nothing." Voyeurism- abstracted-was the fantasy they both promised and burlesqued. A guileless astrophysicist and his "professor" spend the second half of Nude on the Moon exploring a lunar nudist colony with dumbstruck wonder, taking pictures and scribbling notes about the women who stroll around them with languid indifference.
Wishman shot the film in...