Angela Stone, August, Dillan Lauren

Art meets sexuality in this compilation of erotic art films made by the leading visual artists and filmmakers working today.

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  • August 26, 2007
    An extraordinarily tedious collection of X-rated short art flicks.
  • February 21, 2008
    Where sex meets art. And then they both meet boredom.
    I know the films are made as art, and don't necessarily have to have a narrative (even though, one of the better shorts, Clark's Impaled has a very loose narrative, probably making it my favourite), and much it's much like wa...( read more)tching the Cremaster films (speaking of Cremaster, Barney's film was pretty good in this too) only with more dudes whacking off. The one I rented this one for, Noe's, We Fuck Alone, was decent if only for it's audacity with it's strobe effect and constantly moving camera à la Irreversible, but when it comes right down to it, it's just more whacking off. My suggestion is, if you watch it, view it in sections just to keep hardcore boredom at bay.
  • July 10, 2007
    Larry Clarks segment is the most worhwhile, the rest of it is just fannying about in the name of art, literally!
  • November 9, 2009
    Words fail me. I knew what I was getting into before renting this - an artistic look at porn in our society from the point of view in short film by various film makers. Not really something I would generally be drawn to, but I thought I would give it a go to see the Larry Clark...( read more) one. Of all, his would be the best film - he interviews some young guys looking to get into the industry and some of the girls. That is actually quite informative and brings some much needed humanity to this collection. Much of it is pretty gross and sterile. None of it, (in my opinion) is titilating - not what I was looking for anyhow, but I can figure some people would rent it thinking that. I'm sure there is some big statements being made here, but it's over my head. If you like Larry Clark, may be worth a look just to check out his short film, but otherwise couldn't really recommend this.
  • September 12, 2009
    Destricted is a series of seven short films addressing each director's views on the subjects of sex and pornography.

    The films are as follows:

    Balkan Erotic Epic - Marina Abramovi?
    Hoist - Matthew Barney
    Sync - Marco Brambilla
    Impaled - Larry Clark
    We Fuck Alone - G...( read more)aspar Noé
    House Call - Richard Prince
    Death Valley - Sam Taylor-Wood
  • August 29, 2009
    We Fuck Alone and Death Valley as the only shorts that mar this compilation, this is recommended to those with interest in ultimate sexual explicitness with purpose (Art, har har). I'm really not a fan of compilations as they immediately bore me after my forty-minute attention sp...( read more)an, but Destricted is a rare case where my curiosity led to front-to-back enjoyment. Sexually explicit (Porn but not-porn) documentaries, plot-less, art house and avant-garde shorts. More contemplative than titillating.
  • August 9, 2009
    I watched this solely for Gasper Noe's short entitled "We Fuck Alone" (a clever take on his first film "I Stand Alone"). It's um... different is a good word. It's pretty much a porn film that's been Irreversible-ised. Meaning heartbeat soundtrack and strobing throughout. Ok. To g...( read more)et a better understanding do this: watch a porn film while blinking ultra fast. Yeah, that's about it. The only other short anyone would ever care about is Larry Clark's "Impaled." Starting off as an interview with a buncha dorky dudes who wanna be a porn star and ends up a hardcore porn film complete with a weak money shot. Well, at least he stayed away from pre-teens this time..
  • August 6, 2009
    "destricted" is a short film/video art collection (the strict separating line between the two becomes more and more open for problematizing) that deals heavily with pornographic representation in art and a possibility for observing elements in pornography in an artistically and a...( read more)esthetically broader context.. or thats what the project sets its mission to be.. so what do we get? well, matthew barney treats us with a beautiful scene of a dick slowly becoming harder and harder, then it continues with his typical mixture of "anal regression", masturbation, technology fetishism and so on, im usually not a big fan of mr. barney but even taking his own kind of "art universe" into account, this is not a very inspiring film, its rather dull and seems to function more like a signature than like serious involvement with the topic so.. not my cup of tea.. then we have gaspar noe.. what might have been a nice idea of hinting to our heavy support from our own personal masturbation fantasies while having sexual intercourse and in that way sexual intercourse shares striking similarities with masturbation, even the title of the film "we fuck alone" i find a nice one, but what noe makes of it is a boring piece of shit, using the strobe light effect in probably one of the most stupidest ways ever recorded on film, the guy and the girls separate fantasy worlds look more like a parody of his previous films (that i think are excellent!) trough some kind of infantile insisting on exagerating with the "underground fuck shit piss" aesthetics,"knowing" noe it could all have been done chilling and effective, but unfortunately its not..
    then we have my homegirl marina abramovics "balkan erotic epic" which i found a funny,decently entertaining clash of fiction and fantasy that should play as a "sex ed documentary" about the role of sexual organs and sexual practice in the past balkan village tradition.. we see marina with her heavy accent and straight face explaining how balkan women, for example, used to "rub gently their childs forhead after dipping their finger in their pussy in order to protect the child from evil spirits.." so balkan is ironically treated as this "crazy" place where its expected for those kind of things to happen (even tho some of the content probably is true) and it reminds me of vuk karadzics (serbian linguist and reformer) documentation of the sexual attitudes of peasants and vulgar songs.. the film also includes women young and old singing with their tits out, men singing with their pricks out and so on.. nothing spectacular but a decent effort and a surprising one for marina as she mostly deals with subjects of life, death,sexuality, ethnic origins etc. very differently in her performances.. then comes marko brambillas sync.. its about 2 minits long visual attack of various sex scenes from all kinda films, mostly softcore oriented, and i find it a nice atttempt of examining common ways in which most films represent certain parts of sexual practice plus its working just fine on the aesthetical level as well, the music in the background is not too pretentious and just right for this rapid scene exhibition.. next comes larry clark.. okay, the man clearly enjoys filming young mens pricks, but we knew that already.. in this film he makes a contest where he interviews potential candidates for a sex scene with a real porn star, then he interviews the porn stars, and then the guy thats picked gets to pick the girl (if i remember correctly), they have sex in front of the camera and.. a bit of talk afterwards.. its also important to say that all of these guys are pretty much big porn fans.. this film is almost anti-porn and tries to include personal involvement on the part of the characters missing in the usual porn context elements, this ironical distance that most porn include (even when they seem "very open" like gonzo porn, its nice how the film includes the "interview" praxis that most of those pornos include, but manages to give a different feeling to it) is a bit pushed to the side and we see the act of fucking in front of the camera in a way deprived of its fetish value, even the guy said in the end "it was nice but nothing special really..".. i can say this film is good, even tho some parts are kind of draggy it was nice of larry to try to distance himself visually from this "lets make art" shit and still achieve something thats different from simple porn exploitation.. next comes sam taylor-woods death valey.. an artist that otherwise has some interesting videos to show this time kind of blows.. we see a guy jerking off for about 10 minits alone to a song from a matmos album "the west", the style resmbles a bit most of her videos of mostly static people doing little actions in a realism painting resembling video frame but this is way too long and pretty uninspiring.. i dont even want to think about "the message" since im not sure taylor-wood thinks she needs any, and thats good, but not like this damnit.. then comes the worst of all.. house call by richard prince.. we are talking about a readymade here.. hes filming a long part from a genuine porn and playing it to us in worst quality that reminds me of belgrade video club cassetes from the mid 90s.. the part of the porn seems totally boring and quite frankly i had to skip it a few times.. so is he reminding us of the good old cum covered video days? im not sure and i dont really care.. so all in all, there are some neat films,more bad ones and in general, i expected something much more interesting and entertaining.. the idea sounded nice tho, and i hope they get it better with the second part if they intend to make it altho i kind of doubt that..
  • July 23, 2009
    one word : pathetic. except maybe the abramovic which was pretty funny.. I have nothing against "sexuality" and 2 of the directors are some of the best alive .. just cant believe they didnt have anything more interestind to say about it.... again...pathetic!
    (im just disappointed...( read more), actually some of them worth a watch)
  • April 22, 2009
    A shocking sexual film by some of the best artists in the world. Larry Clarks (Kids) was my favorite.

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