Cycles
of Porn
Saturday, October 15 at 10pm
Directed by Jochen Hick
Germany - 104 minutes, In English
Los Angeles in the year
2005: 19-year-old lads move through an apartment that has been equipped with
webcams and looks like some sort of futuristic internet doll's house. Not-quite-so-young men fulfill their sexual dreams
as protagonists in bareback productions. And, at private sex parties, almost every second guy has either taken part in a porn film or wants to. In 1997, I followed the
fortunes of a group of men who had chosen to work either artistically
or commercially with their bodies. Some of these men have successful
careers behind them, others have left the sex industry altogether. Driven
by a sense of adventure or by their own narcissism, young men today are still keen to put their own stamp on porn cinema. But the days of a purely
non-commercial fulfillment of one's sexual desires has long gone, and
the interests of consumers, models and producers no longer coincide. Gay life
like the entire industry has become something of a profession
and is now thoroughly commercialized. Young models begin their sexual careers
in internet containers; they enter the business fully aware of their self-exploitation
and yet, at the same time, they are somehow unconscious of how they are being exploited. Meanwhile, bareback video producers scour thecountry
in their motorhomes on the lookout for new protagonists. But can there be any winners
in this game? Is there anything left of sex itself? And is there a life after
porn?
-Director Jochen Hick
