David Aaron Clark

David Aaron Clark is an author, musician, pornographic actor, and two time AVN Award winning director of Asian themed adult movies. He is best known for shooting films of Asian women.

Career

Born in 1960 in Camden, New Jersey, David attended the Mason Gross School of the Arts and Rutgers College at Rutgers University until switching majors & finally graduating with a degree in journalism in 1986. He edited The Daily Targum, Rutgers student newspaper, winning multiple Columbia Scholastic Press Association College Gold Circle Awards.

Clark then worked as a stringer at The Bergen Record and the New Brunswick Home News Tribune before becoming an on-line editor at Dow Jones News Service. He left after two years to accept an editorial position at Genesis Magazine, followed by a five year tenure at Al Goldstein’s Screw magazine.

Clark also edited the fanzine Chrome on Fire, and performed in the band False Virgins, produced by Sonic Youth guitarist Lee Ranaldo. The band released two albums at the turn of the decade. When the lead singer committed suicide, Clark broke up the band and retired from playing music.

He moved to San Francisco in 1995 and was hired for an editorial position at the now-defunct The Spectator. Clark was noticed for flamboyant readings and performance art pieces usually involving strippers, dominatrices, light to heavy bondage, piercing, and the spilling of his own blood.

In 1998 he moved to Los Angeles to accept a position directing porn videos for John T. Bone’s Cream Studios. Since then he’s carved out a niche shooting mostly artsy low-budget porno exclusively featuring Asian female talent. His screenplay for Brad Armstrong’s high-budget Euphoria won an AVN Award for Best Screenplay in 2000, and his Asia Noir 2: Rise of the Asianatrix won in 2003 for Best Asian Video.

He has directed features for companies ranging from Extreme Associates to Vivid Video.

Excerpts from an interview with Luke Ford [1], David tells Luke -

"I graduated from Rutgers with a double major in journalism and art. Once I found out that I couldn't paint or draw, I decided to become a serious journalist. I wrote for two years for the Dow Jones news service in New Jersey, then switched to Genesis in 1988 and wrote for a friend Michael Banka. He was my college roommate who now edited Genesis. I was bored and looking for something else to write about other than planning commission meetings and human interest stories on missing children, gun shows, etc. From there I went on to Screw Magazine.

"I lead a flamboyant personal lifestyle that meshes with my work. In New York I was seeing and eventually got engaged to a teenage dominatrix who slashed me with a knife when she was angry. The story hit the tabloids like the New York Post. Their headline read - "Porn Editor Cut Up By Kinky Cutie." It showed my picture. We moved to San Francisco to get out of the news and I was with her until October, 1995.

Bibliography

Novels

The Wet Forever (1991, Rhinoceros Publications reissue 1995) isbn: 1563331179
Sister Radiance (1992, Rhinoceros reissue 1994) isbn: 1563332159
The Marquis de Sade's Juliette: Vengeance On The Lord (1993, Masquerade books 1996) isbn: 156333240X
Into The Black (Titan Books, London) (1995) < ISBN:1852866799 >

Collaborations

Ritual Sex (Co-edit with Tristan Taormino) (Masquerade Books, 1995) < ISBN:1563333910 >
True Blood (Text with Charles Gatewood photography, 1997, Last Gasp Books) < ISBN:0867194472 >
The Fallen: The Pale Door (Graphic novel, illustrated by Miran Kim) NBM Publishing (Nantier Beall Minoustchine Publishing), 1999) < ISBN:1561632333 >
The Fallen: Cold Religion (Graphic novel, illustrated by David Rankin, 2000, 2004) < ISBN:1561634069 >

Anthology appearances

Gahan Wilson’s the Ultimate Haunted House (Byron Preiss Press) isbn 0-06-105315-5
World’s Best Erotica (Titan Books)
Best Of Gauntlet Magazine (Richard Kasak Books)

Music releases

False Virgins, SKINJOB (1990, Enemy Records)
False Virgins, INFERNAL DOLL (1991, Enemy Records)

Partial filmography

His film director credits include:

Angel Vivid (2002) Starring: Chris Cannon (porn star), Dasha, Dillion Day, Justine Romee, Meriesa Arroyo, Nikita Denise, Taylor St. Claire
Asian Fever 25 Hustler (2005) 94 minutes Starring: Asia Carrera, Brian Surewood, Gianna Jolynn, Mila Yung, Mr Marcus, Mr Pete, Nyla Thai, Nyomi Zen, Sledge Hammer, Taya Cruz
Diary Of A Mad Porn Director (director and actor) Madness Pictures (2004) 160 minutes Starring: Brian Surewood, Jade-Blue Eclipse, Kimmy Kahn, Lyla Lei, Nyomi Marcela, Sin Nye Lang
Asia Noir Video Team (2003) 130 minutes Starring: Guy DiSilva, Darren James, Sexy Kalana, Kimmie Kann, Lucy Lee, Leyla Lei, Nyomi Marcela, Mr. Marcus, Sabrina Maui, Koal Minah
Asia Noir 2: Rise of the Asianatrix Video Team (2003) 132 minutes Starring: Bamboo, Jay Lo Deeva, Guy DiSilva, Sledge Hammer, Lucy Lee, Maja Lee, Mr. Marcus, Kohl Myna, Chai Sun, Tiger Wood
Asianatrix 1998 | 140 minutes Starring: Annabel Chong, Jade-Blue Eclipse, Kanai, Leda, Mike Long, Rosy Rocket, Stephanie Says, Suzi Suzuki, Van Damage, Violet
A Taste of Shane (writer, actor, director) 30 minutes Starring: Mistress Shane as Herself, David Aaron Clark as Slave 'D'