Morgana Muses grew up in Coober Pedy and was known as the Mole in the Hole when she attended secondary school in the big smoke.
Bullying and taunts did not detour or deter her from being a dutiful daughter and she subsequently did the expected and became a dutiful wife.
After 20 years as a dutiful housewife and mother, stuck in a loveless, sexless marriage and suffocating in suburbia, Morgana had had enough of her dreary life, and departed her sad sack spouse and children.
Desperately lonely and starved of intimacy, she booked a male escort for one last hurrah before topping herself. Her final night takes an unexpected turn when her relationship with the escort opens up a new world of personal and sexual freedom.
Sublimated and subordinated sensuality erupted, a libidinous lava flow of promiscuity and exhibitionism followed.
On hearing about a competition for first time erotic filmmakers, Morgana directs and stars in a film about her own story, ‘Duty-Bound’. Unexpectedly her film wins, catapulting her into the international Feminist Porn community.
In the roller coaster ride documentary, MORGANA, life merges with art as Morgana uses erotic film making as a tool for creative catharsis, while struggling with demons from her past, not least the abandonment of her children and the ostracism by her family.
From Coober Pedy, Sydney, Albury to Berlin and back again, MORGANA plots a maddening course in sex, celebrity, mental stability, body image, ageism, and knife fetishism.
Directed by Isabel Peppard and Josie Hess, MORGANA is a fascinating but fairly tame peek into fornicating on film, a primer of sorts who may wish to pursue and peruse Morgana’s growing library of primary produced porn, made under the auspices of her production company, the tellingly titled, Permission4Pleasure.
MORGANA features its subject, Morgana Muses, fully front and centre, with interview material supplied by Shine Louise Houston, Stoya, Candida Royalle, Jiz Lee, Judith Lucy, Anna Brownfield, Petra Joy, Zhara Stardust and Scarlet Blissand.
MORGANA releases exclusively at Dendy Newtown