Via Crucis of Jane 1 and 2 – Streaming Now!

At the beginning of their amazing adventure in Cinema, the cycle that began in 2006, Amy and Jac were working tirelessly on many films where Amy is the protagonist of endless suffering. Two of those early works were under the heading of The Via Crucis of Jane, they planned to do 3 of them, but ended up doing 2. What came after that were films like Agent X and Fantom.

In the two The Via Crucis of Jane films Amy prepares herself physically and mentally for the work to come by going through a series of ever increasing torments at Jac’s hands.

Two films that Jane’s fans can’t miss!

Back in December 2, 2008 Jac was listening to Koral, a Hungarian rock band, old friends of his, he met them back in 1984 in Havana, Cuba, at the swimming pool in the famous Hotel Nacional where they were staying and where he was living. Later that year he spent time with them in Budapest, and again in Szeged, in 1986.

But I’m digressing, Jac was listening to one of his favorite albums from that band while preparing to edit one of the many, many projects he produced. He said that much in a comment he posted in FB back then.

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He made that comment sometime after Amy directed Jac and Veronique in her first feature film as director, Sirwiñakuy, released in 2010, and Jac directed Amy, Vero and himself in The Specters of Blood Castle, a film that hasn’t been released yet. Those two films were produced back to back at the end of 2008.

Before the release of Sirwiñakuy in 2010, a whole bunch of films that were produced in 2008 and maybe even before, were released in 2009, amongst them Agent X, Fantom, the two Via Crucis of Jane… and others. That was before the dynamic duo embarked in Big Production Value films, like Maleficarum, and Justine for the next 7 years.

Something along those lines is happening these days. A lot of films are in the works, some in post production others in production and some in development. A new cycle is beginning with some interesting and unexpected changes and new challenges.

The year ends with the steady growing of a brand new way of showing our films, our Streaming Channel. Where both Via Crucis of Jane films are now streaming and it looks like they are very popular with our subscribers.

A few days ago, more specifically on December 4, 2025, in the morning, Jac was listening to Led Zeppelin, Babe I’m gonna leave you, and preparing to work on at least two of the many, many projects he produced recently while thinking about Camille, whose birthday was fast approaching… on the 6th of December.

Jac has a tremendous fondness for Camille. Her big film Martyr is streaming now, and soon all her other films will be part of the channel, including a beautiful homage to The Diary of Camille.

One of the big changes in the new cycle is the exploration of the world of Artificial Intelligence for our work. Jac is delving into all the ways it can be used in our present, future and even PAST work. Jac played a bit with AI to see if he could add some clever touches to scenes to past films like Martyr.

In one scene Camille the model and Tadeusz (Jac) the photographer are discussing her playing St Eulalia in a photo shoot. Camille asks Do you want to put me on a cross? Tadeusz responds I didn’t say that. Camille challenges him. Why Not? Crucify me!

Jac took that last frame of Camille saying Crucify me and set it up for an interesting shot of Camille suddenly floating up and ending up on a cross while turning into Saint Eulalia. Maybe as a way of showing Tadeusz imagining the scene or Camille … or both.

Jac has a good number of versions of that one shot of Camille floating up to the cross. He might keep on trying until he gets exactly what he wants for the movie.

He already has some scenes where he used AI to add some interesting flavor to some scenes in 69 Année Érotique and they are very interesting.

RedOrc I am really impressed at the AI’s ability to produce photorealistic background scenes that would need hundreds of extras in real life and huge sets. I think the combination of real actors for the speaking parts and AI crowds is a good one. The glitches of AI such as the usual six fingers are not as noticeable in the background.

The way Jac sees AI at this early point in time is a mixture of possibilities but the most clear to him is that AI can be used, without abuse, to create some very impressive scenes that would be impossible to do without millions of Dollars, or Euros, or Bolivianos.

AI doesn’t always work well. As a matter of fact, it takes many tries to get the results one wants. But once some good results are achieved, one can combine those shots with live action, not only speaking parts, but complete actions, an entire scene where the actors do their part in front of the Green Screen and that is later set up in front of backgrounds. A good whipping, for instance, in an interesting looking dungeon.

A good scene in a dungeon needs different views of the location, and then the action, in this case the whipping of the victim, has to be shot from different angles of the action itself. That is easily achieved by just having the actors turn around instead of moving the camera. One can have all the angles one needs with very little camera movement, if any at all.

In the clip below we see Ligia suffering the whip in a dungeon. We see two different views of the action and the dungeon with Ligia under the whip. It is a test, some instructions from the director to the actress are heard and sometimes Dani intervenes with comments, while Ligia stays in character throughout the shooting suffering the whipping.