While the actresses in Hamilton’s films were often models with limited acting range, First Desires features a few notable names:
Premiers Désirs is neither a masterpiece nor a mere exploitation film. It is a hyperspecific artifact of a particular European erotic-art cinema that died with the advent of home video and the moral turn of the 1990s. The DVDRip, often dismissed as a low-quality bootleg, is the appropriate medium for such a film. Hamilton’s subject is memory, and memory is lossy. It is compressed. It has missing frames. Premiers desirs AKA First Desires -1983- DVDRip
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The machine groaned, a mechanical beast waking from a long slumber. Then, with a burst of static that danced like white ants on the screen, the film began. Hamilton’s subject is memory, and memory is lossy