The seven films are explicit in content, highlighting controversial
issues about the representation of sexuality in art, opening up for
debate the question of whether art can be disguised as pornography, or
vice-versa, and leaving the viewer free to choose his or her own line
through these intersections of art and sexuality.

On Saturday 9 September at 19.00 a panel discussion explores the wider critical context for Destricted. Following a selection of films from the programme, the contested issues around art and pornography are discussed by artist Larry Clark; Los Angeles-based critic and curator Bruce Hainley; Catherine Millet, Art Press editor and author of The Sexual Life of Catherine M.(2002); and critic and curator Neville Wakefield.

Contains adult themes and explicit sexual content
Admission for over 18s only

Programme
duration 115 minutes

Balkan Erotic Epic
Marina Abramovic, 2005, 13 min
Performance art legend Marina Abramovic delves into Balkan folklore to create an instructional series of mise en scènes that explore the crude, magical and mysterious rites of ethnic fertility and virility.

Hoist
Matthew Barney, 2004, 14 min 36 sec
American fabulist Matthew Barney stages the erotics of sexual encounter
as it takes place between ‘green man’ and the lubricated drive shaft of
a customised deforestation vehicle destined for the Carnival de Bahia.

Sync
Marco Brambilla, 2005, 2 min
American artist and filmmaker Marco Brambilla ransacks porn-film
archives to produce a witty, fast-moving montage of money shots.

Impaled
Larry Clark, 2005, 38 min
Larry Clark, cult anthropologist of American adolescence, directs a
sensitive yet frank investigation into how, for the generation growing
up in the 1980s, pornography has shaped the way they think about sex
and sexual fantasy. The result is a riveting documentary about desire
and sexual initiation.

We Fuck Alone
Gaspar Noé, 2006, 23 min
Gaspar Noé, maker of Irreversible,
the controversial art-house movie whose brutal depiction of rape that
left audiences physically sick, now promises to turn you on with a
cinematically erotic journey into masturbatory fantasy.

House Call
Richard Prince, 12 min
American iconographer Richard Prince appropriates a segment of video
that captures iconic 1970s porn and re-shoots it in the manner of the
cowboys, girlfriends and outlaws that first made him famous.

Death Valley
Sam Taylor-Wood, 2004, 7 min 58 sec, music by Matmos and Andrew Hale
British art star Sam Taylor-Wood directs a porn star in a droll elegy to masturbation and the great American outdoors.

Commissioned by Destricted. Destricted is created by London-based
Mel Agace, Andrew Hale and New York-based art critic, curator and
cultural commentator Neville Wakefield.