Forged Obscenities (Short film series, 2019) Mature
This is the first part of a 2 part meditation we've been thinking about for a while on obscenity, censorship, the body, excess and restriction, fakery and real
We all exist in a world that tells we are unacceptable or obscene in a number of different ways; our bodies are policed, our words restricted, images are censored. This is especially true in a world where our images online increasingly precede our physical selves. It feels like more and more our bodies and our words are under threat. This is especially true for women, for marginalised people, for people selling sex or making work with sex - people considered "dangerous".
And in a world of seemingly increasing acceptance of dangerous ideas and actions from the people who are meant to be elected to protect us, where we identify what is obscene, what is dangerous, what should be restricted and censored, seems to be broken.
In this film we are taking symbols of visceral bodily materials (deemed by some to be "obscene") and caricaturing them, faking them, over exaggerating them to excess. Transforming them from something considered base through the process of film into gold, something precious. Cinema alchemy. Hopefully highlighting the futility and ridiculousness of demarcating sex and bodies as acceptable/unacceptable.
Credits
I worked on this project
Vex Ashley United Kingdom
Performer, director, editor and producer of the Four Chambers project, in collaboration with a partner and other performers.
Four Chambers Unpublished
Four Chambers is a project, an idea and an ongoing collaboration with the intention to explore the aesthetic and conceptual potential of pornography as a medium for ideas.
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