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Filming Sex (2011)
"Filming Sex" review
This is a philosophical attempt to understand why people film their sexual intercourse and what does pornography (sex as a performance) bring into their lives. The short documentary touches on how being filmed or photographed has become essential nowadays for one's self identity and representation. Who am I? How I look? Am I the same person I imagine myself to be? These are the focal questions of modernity and camera is a great tool to search for answers. On the other hand, a huge amount of pornography in mass media creates certain stereotypes in younger generations as to what a pure act of passion should be, how it should look like and what roles shall both partners involved undertake. "All that once was directly lived has become mere representation" - said the french philosopher Guy Debord in his most famous study "The Society of spectacle". In "Filming sex" home porn is compared to recording family events - this is the only way for a modern human to make sure he/she is alive. This short documentary is stuffed with snatches of interviews that lift a curtain on human vulnerability. The naked guy in the shower, one of the interviewees, acts as a great visual metaphor for those defenseless exposure we all experience in search for our real selves. The editing style and the cheesy porn insertions create the special atmosphere and give it a slight air of darkness in which it becomes easier to dig into one's unconscious through which the narrator will guide the viewer with his subtle voice and Modernism doctrine...