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Daniel | ... |
Himself (from "Impaled")
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August | ... |
Herself (segment "Impaled")
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Shirin Barthel | ... |
(segment "We Fuck Alone")
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Richard Blondel | ... |
(segment "We Fuck Alone")
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Jasmine Byrne | ... |
Herself (segment "Impaled")
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| Manuel Ferrara | ... |
(segment "We Fuck Alone")
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| Katsuni | ... |
(segment "We Fuck Alone")
(as Katsumi)
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Dillan Lauren | ... |
Herself (segment "Impaled")
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Vicente Pinho Neto | ... |
Blooming Greenman (segment "Hoist")
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Chris Raines | ... |
(segment "Death Valley")
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Kora Reed | ... |
The Patient (segment "House Call")
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Sativa Rose | ... |
Herself (segment "Impaled")
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| John Saint John | ... |
The Doctor (segment "House Call")
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Angela Stone | ... |
Herself (segment "Impaled")
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Nancy Vee | ... |
Herself (segment "Impaled")
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Shorts by eight directors examine the boundary between Eros and porn. A feral man masturbates with the aid of a whirling crankshaft; a sunbathing woman phones a doctor for a playful house call; a man with a quartz penis goes through lovemaking, castration, cannibalism, and restoration; a mouth and tongue, close up, lick viscous liquids of different colors and consistency; we watch a grainy film of a lesbian threesome, their eyes and genitalia crudely scratched out; a director interviews ten men, choosing one who picks among six actresses for a porn shoot; ink wash drawings become animated scenes of copulation; last, while an infant cries, a strobe illuminates adults at play. Written by <jhailey@hotmail.com>
Although i'm trying very hard, i can remember only three segments of the movie. This fact alone might give you an overall impression, despite the fact that i was mainly interested in their authors.
Marina Abramovic offered a pseudo-ethnographic study about the relation between sex and language, in particular bad language, in the Balkans. The result is a literal translation of curses into English. Try the same thing in a bar with friends and you'll get a couple of laughs, but no-one would call it art.
Matthew Barney was on the trail of his Cremaster series, with less costumes and plain mise-en-scène, though. What happened on screen was at the same time obvious and difficult to explain. In line with modern art where the act (masturbation) precedes the context (if any), it leaves you to read-in the meaning you might associate with it.
Larry Clark, on the other hand, made an audition for a porn movie. Due to it's sheer realism, this segment was the only one to make sense, but left me wondering why should i watch it instead of browsing the internet for free porn.
Art aficionados, in particular those into modern art, will probably love Destricted. Others would have other films to watch...