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I believe porn to be the last bastion of subversive filmmaking. With all kinds of creative license opened up because sex is what porn is all about, really cool films could be made, even on the gonzo end. I don't believe anyone needs to resort to violence to make an absolutely kick ass porno.

KN




I don't agree. The pornography we see today isn't so much subversive cinema as subverting cinema itself. All artifice and craftsmanship has been removed, not by design but by a confluence of market and technology factors, which by kismet have produced the perfect pornography. Though there is an incidental disembodied commentary inherent in it on the grotesque nature of celebrity in modern society, this is a form guided by no soul or mind of man, it is barely a form at all. What's being communicated has no mouth, and the intentions of the makers could not be more irrelevant. The lights, the camcorders, the fob to a list of production "credits"- it's a simply a flimsy framework to stage the most barbarous and hateful sexuality and make it available under the guise of "work" and "product". I suppose it's irony that the most artless, heartless, and mindless among the pornographers have ended up producing such powerful statements as they plunge toward the lowest common id denominator, but maybe the irony is unwarranted because the elemental is often arrived at by accident. In any case I believe that the coincidental potency of the images they capture makes the cinematically ambitious pornographers look stale, fraudulent, and misguided.


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