Mira Adoumier -Notes from the Underground (Lecture performance and conversation with guests)

Viktor Zahtila - What is sex? (Lecture performance)

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Mira Adoumier - Notes from the Underground (Lecture performance and conversation with guests)
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Viktor Zahtila - What is sex? (Lecture performance)

Viktor Zahtila proposes an alternative to, and confronts mainstream approaches in porn cinematography. He is working within the gay community, using the filmmaking process to explore gay desire, and reimagines representations of various sexual practices as something rooted in the natural world. Starting from a series of audio interviews, followed by filmed interviews, he tries to capture erotic desire through an experimental approach. He asked people to describe their partners or lovers in the second person, as if they were addressing them directly. This choice was also made to let people get used to the camera and to create space for intimacy where erotic desire can manifest, for instance in the quality of one’s voice. This also served as a step in the process of creating intimacy, before filming the actual sexual relationships. At the moment Viktor is filming his subjects having sex, using natural materials like plants and flowers, to visually flesh out the inner workings of sexuality, especially how it entwines trauma, fear and humiliation, sucking out its sap and transforming it into a plethora of kinks and fetishes.

Viktor will present a performance lecture in which his guidebook for more humane porn will be the focus.