| Michael Ninn | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1953 |
| Occupation | Adult Film Director |
| Years active | 1992 - Present |
| Website | |
| http://www.michaelninn.com | |
Michael Ninn (born 1953) is an adult film director and writer known for his innovative, artistic and stylized approach to adult film making. He began his career as a music video director, and made his first adult films in 1992. From 2002 through 2007, Ninn released films through his own production company, Ninn Worx. Having recently sold majority interest in the company, he is now embarking on new projects.
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Michael Ninn was born to a young mother and raised in a New York orphanage. He experienced a youth that he describes as "devoid of love".[1] Before the age of 20, Ninn was working for a well-known New York ad agency as an art director. Soon afterwards, he directed music videos for the record company Capitol Records before moving to the West Coast of the United States to pursue TV and film. His adopted name is supposedly derived from the famous novelist and erotica writer Anaïs Nin.[2]
In 1992 Ninn made his first two pornographic movies, Two Sisters and Principles of Lust. The next year he signed with VCA Pictures and produced a series of films Sex Latex and the award-winning film Shock,. Many of his films use cutting-edge technology, such as computer-generated images (CGI), sometimes on par with techniques used in mainstream/non-adult movies.[2]
Michael Ninn's unique style of adult entertainment approaches pornography with an artistic eye, blending the more stylish European sensibility with American hardcore.[3] His work is considered innovative for its lighting, technical, conceptual and artistic features.[1][2][3] Critics, however, have been unimpressed with the actual sex in his movies, describing it as uninvolved, as if there is a veneer between you and the performers.[1] Working through VCA and then Private, Ninn developed his style further, but still wanted more creative freedom. By 2002 he launched his own production company, called Ninn Worx.[4] Ninn's contemporaries include the established pornographic director/producers Andrew Blake, Viv Thomas, Gregory Dark and Marc Dorcel.
Michael Ninn's Ninn Worx has produced dozens of films that have won more than a dozen AVN Awards. In 2004 Fetish Circus won Best DVD , Euroglam: Nikki Blonde won 'Best Foreign All-Sex Release' and Euroglam won 'Best Foreign All-Sex Series'.[5] Laurent Sky won the 2004 AVN award for 'Best Director - Non Feature' for the film Fetish:The Dreamscape.[6] In 2005 the Ninn Worx film Fetish Circus won the 2005 AVN award for 'Best DVD', and Lost Angels:Katsumi won 'Best Foreign All-Sex Release'.[7] In 2006 Ninn won the AVN award for 'Best Director - Non Feature' for the film Neo Pornographia.[8]
In 2007 Spearmint Rhino acquired 100 percent of Ninn Worx, the rights to his name, and the Ninn Worx content library, forming Ninn Worx_SR. On June 16, 2008 Ninn announced that he is no longer working for the company because of a dispute that both sides have admitted may end up in court. Though he remains a 49 percent shareholder in Ninn Worx_SR, Ninn has begun making plans to work with former Ninn Worx_SR contract stars under a new name, IMNINN, while looking into his legal options.[9]