Christmas on Earth (Cocks and Cunts)

Synopsis

For all intents and purposes, "Christmas on Earth" is a performance art film about genital worship. At twenty-nine minutes, Barbara Rubin has created the ultimate study on the celebratory and erotic nature of free love. The film is tinted in various colors (hence the title), and finds various people engaging in sexual activity. Men with women, men with men, women with women, and several orgies throughout.

Year - 1963

Directed By - Barbara Rubin

Written By - N/A

Produced By - N/A

Starring - N/A

About

"In Christmas on Earth, at least five nude bodies are seen engaged in a variety of different sexual acts, including heterosexual genital penetration, homosexual anal sex, fellatio, cunnilingus, and masturbation…Through Rubin’s use of superimposition, penises suggestively overlap with faces, fingers appear to probe a mouth that simultaneously locks lips with labia, and tongues seem inserted in anuses. True to Rubin’s original title Cocks and Cunts, reel A presents a seemingly endless array of genitals. Vaginas and anuses are repeatedly spread open, as if inviting the camera (and the observer) to penetrate these tempting apertures."

-- “Absolutely Enchanted” - The Apocryphal, Ecstatic Cinema of Barbara Rubin p. 133 written by Ara Osterweil from Women’s Experimental Cinema

Taken from Women’s Experimental Cinema

Barbara Rubin was only seventeen when she made Christmas on Earth (Cocks and Cunts) during the promotion of Flaming Creatures (another title in the QFA Catalog).

Ara Osterweil called it, “one of the most sexually explicit, beautifully hallucinatory films to emerge from the 1960s.”