Tuesday, January 27, 2009

What's the Best Porn Movie Ever Made?


I've posted about this before, but when something is good, you are required to repeat it. What you see here is the 30-second trailer for what is not the best porn movie ever made, but the only good porn movie ever made, and, of course, it's not really a porn movie at all, but a work of art.

It's 13 minutes long, and it's 13 years old. It's called "The Operation," and if you're familiar with it, you are cool. The film, a collaboration by Jacob Pander and Marne Lucas, was shot in infrared and directed by Jacob Pander. It stars the terrifically luminmous Gina Velour, aka Marne Lucas, a woman who knows something about beauty.

Amazon.com: "The infrared renders the protagonists bodies as translucent. The familiar territory of the flesh is re-negotiated as a vein delineated web of continual transmutation, in which hot and cold zones fluctuate according to changes in temperature, itself dictated by erogenous stimulation. The folds of the labia and the flesh of the penis - no longer the pink/ red/ purple of video pornography - are instead white hot , while teeth, and the colder extremities appear as black. The Operation is a film not about light, but about heat. It does not seek to reproduce a representation of `reality', rather it creates a phantasmagorical trope based on the bio-physical response of the body to stimulation. The film is an exegesis of sex manifested via a thermo-physiological cartography of the body."