DESTRICTED invited seven artists to make short films representing their views on sex and pornography. The result is a collection of sexy, humorous, stimulating and provocative scenarios.
Not my release, I grabbed it last week and would of thought one of the arthouse guys here woulda picked up on it already. Theyre all good looking dvdrips and come via KG's.
IMPALED by Larry Clark
Everyone who was born after 1980 grew up with easy access to pornographic videos. Many children see explicit videos at a young age. Clark interviews people between the ages of 19 and 23 and asks how seeing pornography at such a young age shaped how they think about sex.
What are their sex fantasies and how are they directly related to growing up with pornograhpy?
This will be the background for acting out these fantasies.
Duration: 38 minutes
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WE FUCK ALONE by Gaspar Noe
Riffing off the title of his first feature ('I Stand Alone') - an eloquent cinematic narrative about despair, loneliness and one man's abandonment to pathologies of societal decay - 'We Fuck Alone' is a dark odyssey into violent masturbatory fantasy.
The film opens with the image of a beautiful young woman being rimmed on TV. As we pull back we encounter a young teenager being eaten by a large teddy bear before the narrative settles on a young man masturbating as he watches porn on the TV.
The strobe lighting and deep pulsing soundtrack suggests as it creates something dark and hallucinatory, a strange cinematic space in which desire to continue watching is tapped directly into the brain. As the man grasps for fulfillment, he reaches for a gun and begins to use it on his inflatable sex toy to fuck her in the mouth before both he and the film come to a brutal climax.
Like most of Noe's film, 'We Fuck Alone' suggests an altered state. Provoking a perceptual and visceral reaction to both what is seen and the way it is shown, we are drawn into a solitary self-referential world of simultaneous seduction and repulsion. Here, sex, beauty and violence combine to create a mesmeric and unforgettable landscae entirely on its own.
Duration: 23 minutes
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DEATH VALLEY by Sam Taylor-Wood
Death Valley is recognised as the lowest point in the Western Hemisphere and one of the hottst places on earth. The rocks tell a story of endless changes in the earth's crust - vast depositions, contortions, alternate risings and lowerings, faultings, intense heats and pressures. It is here director Sam Taylor-Wood and cinematographer Seamus McGarvey chose to frame the 'Death Valley'. The story of a man exploring the experience of self-stimulation, pleasuring, the erotic satisfaction and possibilities with oneself.
Simultaneously the film alludes to the Christian story of 'Onan', the brother-in-law who spilled his seed rather than copulate with his brother's wife, the film subconsciously questions our cultural stigmatism attached to self-stimulation, and the condition of guilt weighed against the clear erotic value, relief and need.
Duration: 7 minutes 58 seconds
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HOIST by Matthew Barney
Commissioned as part of the Destricted Short Film Series, 'Hoist' was shot in Bahia, Salvador as one facet of a longer film titled DE LAMA LMINA. 'Hoist' is the literal underbelly of that project: a non- site through which the history, ritual, mythology and deities invoked in DE LAMA LMINA have been refracted and processed. it is a film about the meeting of chthonic libidinal energy and the destructive forces of technology.
'Hoist' describes the encounter between the two central characters of the film; the so-called 'Green Man' and a fifty-ton deforestation Caterpillar truck under which he is suspended. Following the three acts of traditional film narrative, it is structured according to the three phases of description, situation and condition.
While the initial two phases relate to the definition of 'Hoist' as an "an apparatus or method for lifting a load and shifting it laterally by an elevating means applied through a support from which a flexible member freely suspends a load engager," the third or final condition of the film suggests the imperfect consummation of the human and the mechanistic.
Duration: 14 minutes 36 seconds
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HOUSE CALL by Richard Prince
'House Call' is a re-recording of a twelve minute mis-en-scene culled from the golden age of video porn. It harks back to an era before pornography had entered the mainstream, when pornographic pleasure was still encased in taboo, an era distinctly at odds with that described by in Larry Clark's film 'Impaled'.
By recording and re-recording the clip, Prince adjusts the sensory bias, further disintegrating the video and its claim to
sexual reality. The narrative shares an obsession that first appeared in the nurse paintings, describing as it does an illicit encounter between strangers whose professional intimacy is based on knowledge of bodily function and fluid.
Duration: 12 minutes
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SYNC by Marco Brambilla
Marco Brambilla's 'Sync' is made up of sampled images from sex scenes in mainstream and adult films. The formulaic and often derivative nature of the way this subject is interpreted in cinema is emphasised, creating a strong subliminal impression which gradually builds to a state of sensory overload.
'Sync' uses samples as short as single frames edited together to create the impression of motion. The original continuity and narrative in the source material is eliminated, and a new visual choreography emreges.
Duration: 1 minute 50 seconds
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BALKAN EROTIC EPIC by Marina Abramovic
Through eroticism, the human attempts to make himself equal with the gods. In Balkan folklore, men and women sought to preserve indestructible energies through the use of the erotic. They believed that erotic energy was something non-human that could only come from higher forces.
Various explicit acts were performed for a variety of purposes; to promote the growth of crops, to heal a sick child, to protect against evil spirits and so forth.
Abramovic's interest lies in what can be learned from these ancient traditions viewed now in a contemporary context.
Duration: 13 minutes
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