Sim1What's Porn?
October 29th 2006 19:05
Zenda Marcova in Bloodspit
Many years ago I worked in an airport for a shipping agent. I was with a customs officer playing a video cassette he’d just seized from one of our packages. The video was Swedish. There were about fifteen people having wild sex. There was a midget. The officer leaned back in his chair and asked me whether I would classify the film as porn or art.
It’s all a matter of perspective.
And focus.
Bilitis, David Hamilton, 1977
Soft focus. David Hamilton is the soft focus king and I’ve never quite decided whether his work is erotic art or just erotic. Bilitis sees him move from still photography to film for the first time and beneath his trademark images there’s a story. I think there’s a story, I’ve never been able to get past the images. There is one – it’s the story of a girl’s sexual awakening – hers and mine.
Staring Patti d’ Arbanville and Mona Kristensen, the film is inspired by The Songs of Bilitis (Pierre Louys,1894). His were mock poems supposedly written by Bilitis, a lover of contemporary Sappho, an early Greek poet and resident of Lesbos.
Is it just me or is Patti d’ Arbanville simply stunning. Beyond stunning. It’s not just me, I think Cat Stevens had a thing for a while.
My lady d’ Arbanville – why do you sleep so still…
Until next time and happy film-making.
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