Every year at Sundance, there’s at least one racy sex film. This year, you get seven for the price of one in Destricted. The “hornographic” movie gathers new short films by seven of the art world’s most controversial provocateurs: Matthew Barney has sex with a giant deforestation machine; Gaspar Noé films “a journey into autoerotic epilepsy”; Larry Clark auditions young male wannabe porn stars and films the lucky winner. We spoke to three of the directors.
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(Photo: Sebastian Piras/Courtesy of Gladstone Gallery, New York) |
Richard Prince
Films a seventies-inspired cowboy-porno for his short.
Do you watch conventional pornography?
There’s a video store near where I live that has a back room
for X-rated videos. There’s
no he/she, no pissing,
no German or Greek . . . no amateurs. Boring. I used
to watch porn in Times Square when I worked in the area—“loops” from Sweden.
What single artwork do you think
is the sexiest?
I like Diane Arbus’s photos of nudist camps.
Biggest
turn-on?
Stills from the early fifties of the wife-swapping clubs in Texas.
Biggest
turn-off?
Nazis.
What’s the
last thing that shocked you?
Getting a plaster cast of Jimi Hendrix’s penis for a Christmas present.
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(Photo: Jon Furniss/Wireimage) |
Sam Taylor Wood
Films a porn star masturbating in the middle of a Western desert.
Do you watch conventional pornography?
I actually get more turned on by fantasizing about being
in a tent with Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger than anatomical close-ups.
What single artwork do you think is the sexiest?
Jackson Pollock
at Work, by
Hans Namuth.
Biggest turn-on?
Cowboys, vegans, and tight T-shirts. Sweat.
Biggest
turn-off?
Bad breath.
What’s the
last thing that shocked you?
How much underwear I own from Agent Provocateur.
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(Photo: Courtesy of Destricted) |
Marina Abramovic
Films a strange series of vignettes inspired by Balkan sexual folk wisdom.
Do you watch conventional pornography?
I am always interested in pornography to see what’s new, but it’s all very predictable.
What single artwork do you think is the sexiest?
The Origin of the World, by Courbet.
Biggest
turn-on?
Paolo Canevari (my boyfriend) dancing to Roy Orbison.
Biggest
turn-off?
Anything pushy or overly explicit.
What’s the
last thing that shocked you?
Woody Allen’s Match Point. The idea that doing bad things could pass by unpunished was disturbing to me. It invites the possibility for evil.