Destricted
Dir: Marina Abramovic, Matthew Barney, Marco Brambilla, Larry Clark, Gaspar Noé, Richard Prince, Sam Taylor Wood, Tunga, Cecily Brown, Sante D'Orazio, Marilyn Minter
2006
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Yikes! Where do I start with this one? Okay, so the brief was to 'pay homage to classic porn and deconstruct the concepts of obscenity, voyeurism and the porn industry'. The first film has a man (with a Turnip up his bottom) rub is manhood up against a JCB that is hanging from a crane in the middle of a huge warehouse. Another has a man masturbating in the middle of a desert. He does this for what seems like a very long time. It is an anti-climax - literally, and he breaks down and sobs. Another is just an old recording of an 80's porn film, another is of a man shagging a sex doll and a girl doing something to a teddy bear that you really shouldn't do to a teddy bear....and you get the picture. So, to answer the question you really want to ask...no, it's not, so pull up your trousers and let the dog back in the room, this is not a porn film! Larry Clark's segment is quite interesting and the only one of interest, he auditions young men who want to star in a porn video and then lets the chosen man pick a women he want to sleep with by letting him audition from a selection of local porn stars. It's interesting but not particularly nice and I wouldn't say it was worth watching for. Destricted is, for want of a better phrase, a load of wank.