Quote from: online prowler on May 01, 2013, 05:45:56 PM
Quote from: vomitgore on May 01, 2013, 05:01:34 PM
Yeah, VLF just did a collaboration with RxAxPxE named "Adoration of Decline".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFm36DO6NCo&feature=player_embedded
I skipped through it the other day, looks pretty neat. Haven't had time to really watch it yet, though. I also have this zine type thing he did, it's basically a cardboard envelope with some professionally developed HC photographs. Not much in quantity but definitely satisfying in quality.
Thanx for the link. Will check it out. Personally I think 'porn' as vlf transgresses the genre. It crosses into a landscape of sexuality, surreal film history, documentation, fetishizing and art. This is a subjective view from my side. Watching some of the films as much of other stuff related, I find myself most of the time not being voyeuristic and fetishizing, but more curious and analytical about the content that is being presented. I imagine doing ones own flick would be the ultimate. Talking of that the cam site cam4 comes to mind. Interesting place for basic need of $, confirmation and self-expression. http://www.cam4.com/
The guy behind VLF also develop visual works within the frame of photography, sculpture and collage. Often mixed together. Check out his tumblr below:
http://bolesniephotomancy.tumblr.com/
I agree with you, this type of material certainly isn't solely 'porn', it also works under a variety of other aspects. Another great example of the usage of porn in transgressive art would be Marian Dora's two films "Melancholie der Engel" (Angel's Melancholy) and "Debris Documentar", which are also quite surrealistic and nihilistic in their approach, so one would maybe think of them as typical "art" cinema. The fact that they both feature unstaged acts of fetishistic sex, scat, golden showers, sexual violence and humiliation etc make them interesting for fans of transgressive pornographic stuff. It is said that many scenes had to be cut from Angel's Melancholy because the main actor feared governmental prosecution. I wonder what the original version was like. The two also work as films though, so no real comparison to Malattia. Somehow many try to mix pretty average porn with surrealist imagery (oftentimes pretty "Black Metal"-esque) but it seems that no one really puts a lot of effort into mastering the craft. I recall various tries at it but no real names, so nothing stuck in my memory, ha! Lucifer Valentine stands out of course, but there's no real sense in discussing him, because I guess everybody is already familiar with his works.
Regarding aestheticism in porn: watched GSKD-001 the other day, a beautifully shot piece of JAV. I usually appreciate the scat/vomit JAV stuff (also for the artistic value). I tend to discard the BDSM since I lost faith in japanese BDSM after seeing so much lame and boring stuff, but GSKD-001 is really something. It's skillfully edited and beautifully shot and has some really interesting scenes of (real) sowing of eye-lids and arm flesh, nailing the tongue of an actress to a wooden board etc. Some of the imagery and costumes seem a bit "gothic", which is a bit annoying for my taste, but the rest of the content surely makes up for that. Certainly worth checking out.
