Other Cinema Digital Releases Xperimental Eros
Other Cinema Digital have announced a release date for their Xperimental Eros film collection.
Exploring realms both sacred and profane, XPERIMENTAL EROS invokes a shimmering fantasia of celluloid sensuality for the pleasure of our largest sex organ – the brain. Using exotic tropes and erotic footage from the world’s oldest genre, our program of ardent auteurs spin grindhouse dross into arthouse gold with perverse panache.
Highlights include Peggy Ahwesh’s “The Color of Love” (”Top 10 Film of 1994″ – Amy Taubin, Village Voice) which re-edits and optically prints a Super-8 stag loop, rarifying the degraded images into an abstract, stained-glass mosaic; Jeff Krulik’s “King of Porn” which profiles Ralph Whittington, a retired curator at the Smithsonian, who boasts the world’s largest collection of pornography; Naomi Uman’s “Removed” which reworks a piece of European 70s softcore, turning the images of women into white ectoplasmic blobs (“This is pornography re-[not -de]eroticized by the very act of removal” – Linda Williams).
X-EROS also features two rare vintage stag loops with an original score by the PornOrchestra, a Bay Area musical collective who perform live, composed, and improvised scores to pornographic film.
Be it tales of sexual obsession, rejected letters to Penthouse Forum, or the Mr. Nude Trucker Contest of 1976, no subject is taboo…nor above deconstruction. X-EROS strips bare the spectacle of sex in cinema, poeticizing the cinematic language of the body.
The 93 minute, Region 0 DVD hits the street on August 28th and will be available for pre-order from August 7th.
Tuesday 10 Jul 2007 | Paul | DVD News, New and Upcoming Films
