Moving On – The Meaning

“Moving on” typically means progressing forward, whether in a physical location, in a task or activity, or in one’s mental or emotional state. It can also refer to starting something new after the end of something old, such as a job, relationship, or situation. 

In our case it means moving on from one cycle to another. For some esoteric reason every 10 years comes the need for us to end and begin a new cycle. It happened back in 2005, again in 2015 and it’s happening now, 2025. It’s some kind of renewal, maybe spiritual, maybe psychological, maybe just historical.

At the end of 2005 Camille was moving away from our work to pursue other artistic interests, at the end of 2015 it was Amy who was moving away from her intense work as an actress director and into academia… and now, 2025 there are some changes happening that are marking the end of a cycle and the beginning of another one. Some in our team might be moving into other pursuits and another might even be moving out of the country.

We’re in the middle of the year, the changes will be clearer when we reach the end of the year.

Some of those most likely changes have to do with funding. We have a sustainable system which allows us to keep on going, but that is not enough to fund new big projects and we learned at the end of last year, that our fundraising campaigns, which were good before, are no longer a viable alternative to obtain enough funds to produce a big project like Crucified Four or Maleficarum Excruciati.

That’s one of the issues that is taking a lot of our concentration, we’re in the complicated process of setting up new sources of income. Some interesting suggestions came our way:

danborn: Margot, seems to this interested long-time observer that Alex Bald, well-known crux-video producer-member of this community, provides a can’t-miss example of how to raise significant cash by simply hanging naked sweaty Russian hotties on crosses in genuinely strenuous positions for 10 to 30 minutes at a ‘stretch’, and selling the multi-camera edits for 20-30 bucks apiece on Clips4Sale and NicheClips.

For over 25 years we have been selling our movies, regularly, daily, and with some success. None of the films lost money and the average earning is around 3 to 1, although some films sold a lot more. I could say 20 to 1, if not a lot more.

We know of clips4sale existence, we never considered it as a place where to sell our films, or clips of our films, but if the ‘significant cash‘ raised by Bald is truly significant, we could give it a try. Maybe breaking some of our films into short clips, like 10 minutes bits to see how it works. We could consider that as one of the ways we could explore to increase our resources with the goal of producing big films like Maleficarum Excruciati or Crucified Four, where we need some complicated sets.

danborn: Substitute ‘South American’ for ‘Russian’ and dare I say this suggestion is right in Jack’s wheelhouse? Call it the ‘casting cross’, every girl has to demonstrate her ability to theatrically suffer NAKED for the camera, before earning consideration for upcoming roles. Of course this may take more than one, perhaps SEVERAL attempts, all under the strict coaching of Master Jack!!! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ just an idea…

We don’t really do Crucifixion castings. We do castings for the roles we need in our films and one or two actresses may be willing to play the more difficult roles, like in the case of Ligia, who came for the casting call for a role in Seditiosa. She worked on the film, saw what Dani, Mila and Simonne went through in the film and mentioned that she was willing to go through all that and more. She did some nude scenes for 69 Anneé Érotique, later an XtremeCrux movie and she will have the chance of a great crucifixion role in Crucified Four.

I think breaking down the films we have into clips could work better if we consider putting them in clips4sale. We have over 50 films, if we break them into 10 minute clips, each film will have something like 10 clips which will bring a total of over 500 clips… that sounds interesting. We might even give it a try with a couple of clips and see how it goes.

In the meantime the post production for some of our films is ongoing but the production of other, more simple films in terms of production values is on hold. There are some current comments on that subject.

Cruxlover24 I would love act dead after being impaled like Dani did in Cruxtreme III. I loved the way Jac made her suffer! They both worked so Good. Are we going to have some other projects with just the two of them?

They did some very good work, just the two of them. It takes a lot of trust to engage in work like CruXtreme III. But apart from that, it takes a lot of coordination and, if possible, a whole week or two of every day work.

It also takes a lot of inspiration, imagination, and motivation. That can only be attained if the actress is also a muse who inspires the director to go wherever the imagination takes him.

It’s clear from past work that Dani embodies all those demanding needs for doing some excellent work. I can only say that if all the conditions mentioned above are in place, there will be more of that kind of intimate creative work for the two of them.

And finally, a couple of years before the end of a cycle, we published in one those posts I’m recovering about the premiere we had for Dead But Dreaming, the great vampire movie that in the eyes of a well known writer:

Jac Avila’s Dead but Dreaming does for Vampire Films what Coppola’s Apocalypse Now did for War Movies…transforms entertaining and traditionally horrific stories into beautiful works of epic art.

The post continued like this:

The first review came up next day. Not from a critic, we don’t expect reviews from Bolivian critics this time around, as one philosopher who love the film told Beto:

critics won’t touch this movie, I can bet, the best critique is Silence. When they have nothing bad to say, they say nothing.

The review came from a filmmaker, script writer who was at the premiere. He said he was impressed and I quote:

I was impressed at the premiere of Jac Avila’s film because of its audacity, the performances of actors and actresses, the costumes by Amy, the beautiful vampires, the montage, the “racontis”, the moving in space and time, the playing with our patience, the despairing protagonist’s sequence, the flogging to which she’s subjected is torture for the spectator who moves in his chair, unable to put an end to the unrestrained attitude to provoke us…

I could see in the faces of those near me that they were very, very uncomfortable with the scene, but, at the same time, could not take their eyes away from it.

You can read the entire post here: https://redfeline.com/chronicles/2013/07/23/the-release-of-dead-but-dreaming/

Cruxlover24 Maybe we can have more movies with Dani in the main role and Jac as the punisher!!! You two are an amazing couple!

In closing, there are many films with Dani in the main role, more to come, and just to clear things a bit, they are not a couple, in the traditional sense of the word, but they do work very well together.

One of the films with Dani in the main role was recently released, it’s Dani Suffers the Rack for Monxa Mala. You can get it now HERE, https://movies.redfeline.com/us/dani-suffers-the-rack-for-monxa-mala/p/204275