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Graphic Sexual Horror available for download and rental in the US!

Graphic Sexual Horror is finally available for download ($9.99) and
rental ($2.99) in the US through Amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/Graphic-Sexual-Horror/dp/B003BV0TII/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=digital-video&qid=1268383694&sr=8-3

It will be available worldwide, but we don't have any date yet. We
will let you know as soon as the google alert email comes (no, nobody
told us about this either) .

Hope you will enjoy the film!

 

Reflections on Graphic Sexual Horror, review by Rabbit White

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Graphic Sexual Horror is a documentary film about the late, hardcore BDSM pornsite, insex.com. To me, this film can be succinctly described as a brain virus. Since the seven days that I have seen it, I've not quite been able to shake it from my head. The images of women chained, cropped and tortured for viewing pleasure continue to project themselves into the dark of my eyelids, and my brain is still working overtime to try to make sense of it all.

Part of the reason why this film is such a mind-fuck is because of the utter lack of positioning on the part of the documentary makers. The film took a stand back position, gracefully allowing the porn and this company to be shown for what it was, without any sway on what we as viewers were to think of it. The film was neither a monologue at or a dialogue with the viewer on the subject. Rather, it felt  like some omniscient third party, passing along information and images to be burned into our retinas.

Here is what you need to know in order to understand the film: Insex was a brainchild of BDSM enthusiast and artist, PD. The site employed models, many of whom that weren't into BDSM, to engage in hardcore BDSM play on camera for a generous amount of money. There was always a safeword any model could use to end the session, but the women were also rewarded with more cash, the longer they went and the more they endured. This site was eventually shut down by the State.

As Arvan points out in his review of the film, taking a feminist argument with porn that centers on showing beautiful women suffering as men torture them just feels a little too easy, a little generic. Kind of like those feminist blogs that repeatedly become shocked and abhorred by Dov Charney of American Apparel; the joke kinda ends up on them.

Yet my inner feminist, as laid back as she might be, did inevitably stir. One of the ex-models described her first set and explained that before coming into film, they are asked what they are willing to do or not do, and what they might be apprehensive about. This model had never had anal sex, and was clearly apprehensive about doing so. On her first shoot, PD broke that boundary. As she laid tied up, ass up on the floor, he penetrated her anally with a nearly baseball-bat sized instrument. She went onto say that although she hadn't used her safeword, she felt like she had been raped.

When this was brought up during the discussion after the film, a woman who had been invited on stage because she had once done a session herself with PD said, "she said she felt like she was raped, it's not the same thing as being raped." I agree it is not the same thing, but I don't think it is the opposite of rape either. I don't think consent is a yes-no/black-white issue. What it seemed the model was explaining is a tight-rope walk of that delicate, fuzzy line of consent.

Another aspect of consent that the film captured is the act of putting your own comfort aside in order to prove sexual prowess. The women in the film often talked about the sexual acts as a test of strength and endurance, a way to overcome their own limits in terms of fear and pain threshold. This is an aspect of sex that I haven't seen discussed very openly. In my own sex life I know that I have done this very thing, not to these extremes and not in BDSM, but in putting my partners needs first. I've been penetrated in ways that I didn't enjoy, or barred pain that wasn't turning me on at the expense of the sex, to accommodate my partner, and I have sometimes enjoyed doing that. 

That inner feminist of mine could argue that is a product of the patriarchy, how women are raised to accommodate the needs of everyone around them first. However, I also have a sneaking suspicion that men have done this too. This grinning and bearing for a partner also brings up the personal issue of consent and how we sometimes do things we don't want to, for our partners. That is okay, yet could easily spin into gray areas and cross certain lines and it is ultimately up to the person in the sexual act to decide what they feel okay with. The problem is that in most vanilla relationships there isn't a safeword. And further, many of us are so out of touch with our emotions or how to express them that traveling into gray areas feels out of our control.

One of the lines from the film that keeps running through my own mind is, "I thought I was this feminist, who was in control and knew what she wanted. I guess not." This was spoken from the aforementioned model who addressed the rape issue. It has been said time and time again that what we want in bed, is not necessarily what we want socially or politically. It is still a dark thing to address.

As this film hasn't left my mind, what it has made me see is that I found the porn, not always a turn-on but very alluring. I also walked away feeling like I "got" BDSM in a new way, where my light experimentation with ropes or spanking without bruises only hinted at it. It is more than the image of a woman suffering. It playing with something raw and often historical-- fears that run deep as blood. Even though we know the porn is safe, there is some element of playing with the line of life and death. And I find that a turn-on. I think that sexual fantasy is a playground for the unconscious to get a work-out and the art of insex lived on this plane. While the company or even the porn itself might not have been politically correct, we are left with stunning, in depth porn that can be used a guide to our own unconscious, to help us dig to the very core of our being and question what we find in those dark passages along the way.

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Review by Sascha of howmyotherhalflives.wordpress.com

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Graphic Sexual Horror. A slightly belated review…

14 02 2010

 

On Friday night, I went to see the screening of Graphic Sexual Horror at Leather Archives. This is the second time I’ve seen this documentary, the first time being at Cinekink just shy of a year ago. Graphic Sexual Horror is a documentary about insex.com, possibly the most creative and notorious BDSM sites around, until it got shut down in 2005.

After the first screening, Calico wrote a fantastic post on the documentary from something of an insider perspective. She had done shoots with Pd, founder of insex, for some of his later projects. (By the way, if you don’t read her blog, you should. Her writing is fantastic /plug.)

I’d never seen any of the insex stuff myself until I’d seen the documentary. I was still just learning about this whole crazy scene the year the site was just down. I may have seen a trailer or two. But I had heard whispered legends of the site from various sources.

Insex… Now that was some truly depraved stuff. Creative, but my God, was that some sick shit. That was the sort of thing I’d hear from people when talking about the site.

So, when I heard about the documentary, my morbid curiosity got the better of me. I had to see what this site of legend was all about.
The film featured interviews with Pd, the Insex production team, Insex models, and Insex members, and interspersed them with clips from the site and live feeds as well as some behind the scenes footage.

Much credit to Barbara Bell and Anna Lorentzon, they put together one hell of a documentary.

The film was neither a glorification nor a condemnation of the site and its creator. It sets its sights, instead, on retelling the very human drama that took place both on and off camera, and did not shy away from the moral ambiguities that site came to represent.

I found the interviews with the models themselves to be fascinating; they shared the emotional highs and lows of an aria.

What struck me most about the documentary was the question it raises, and purposefully doesn’t answer about consent.

The documentary raised a lot of interesting questions about the nature of consent, the interplay of money, greed, and sex, and some of the darker and scarier corners of human fascination and desire. I liked how the film left these questions for the audience to decide.

Pd paid his models very good money, especially of those who agreed to play with him off camera. And he gave is models a safeword. However, if the models used said safeword, there was a strong likelihood not only that they wouldn’t make as much money during their shoot, but that they wouldn’t be called back for another shoot. When safewording puts that much money on the line, is that really consent? After two showings of the film, I still don’t have a satisfactory answer to that question.

There were also some wonderfully absurd parts of the film. For example, they showed footage of one of the models reading a book while Pd and the camera people fiddled for what seemed like forever with lighting and camera angles. It put a lot of what went on into an interesting perspective.

I brought along my vanilla/kink curious neighbor, and even he thought the film was one of the better documentaries he’d seen.

So yeah, if you get a chance, I’d highly recommend seeing this film if it plays anywhere near you or if you can get your hands on the DVD.

review by Annabelle River

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Last Friday I too had the chance to see the documentary Graphic Sexual Horror at the Leather Archives and Museum.  The film explores the story behind the now-defunct hardcore BDSM pornography website InSex.com, with an impressive lack (or mix) of glorification or condemnation.  I'd like to thank Arvan for the detailed review he's already posted - as well as of course Barbara Bell and Anna Lorentzon for making the film, and Clarisse Thorn and the Leather Archives' Jennifer Tyburczy for hosting.

While Arvan's post touches on many fascinating aspects of InSex and of Graphic Sexual Horror, the one that I left the museum discussing was the ambiguity of consent.  InSex's trademark was hyper-realistically torturing women to the very edge of their limits.  The documentary asked whether these women had given fully-informed, empowered consent, and left the audience with the answer, "Some of them, some of the time."  Which is almost more unsettling than "No," because it calls into question our sacred differentiations between sadomasochism and exploitation.  But then, any strong differentiation has to withstand occasional questioning.

And when I make these ethical judgments, it's important for me to be aware how automatically and irrationally I judge pornography as "hot" vs. "squicking" by my own kinks.  The clips of a women being dunked in water and gasping for breath make me want to masturbate, because personally I love playing with breath in my bath-tub.  But the clips of women with eggplant-colored breasts from long-term tight bondage, while less dangerous, do not look fun by my own admittedly quirky standards.

That being said, Bell and Lorentzon captured moments and gathered interviews with both models who enjoyed performing for InSex and with models who believe that they were exploited.

I connected happily to what one voice-over called "the money shot": the masochist after she's been released from a spectacular scene, high on endorphins, giggling, enraptured by her own tenacity.  It's a happy state I like to call subspace or "fuzzy."  Regardless of whether their specific kinks are my specific kinks, and regardless of the appearance to the casual observer, some of us really are wired to find some kinds of physical pain euphoric.

But then came the story of model S4, who, like many of InSex's performers, came to the site not because she was a masochist but because she wanted the generous paycheck.  S4 had told the site's owner, PD, that one of her hard limits was face-slapping.  During a live feed to the internet, PD forgot and slapped S4's face while she was tied to a chair.  Graphic Sexual Horror shows that moment and the minutes following, when S4 reacts first in shock: "You weren't supposed to do that."  PD maintains his dominant persona and mocks her.  He does ask if she wants to use her safe-word, but clearly implies that saying yes will make her a weakling.  S4 does not use the safe-word, but emotionally collapses.

I understand that S4 and PD both felt the extra pressures of PD paying S4 large amounts of money and of thousands of viewers watching live on the internet.  But I feel awfully strongly that S4 needed to be untied and sent home with someone she trusted.  The line between adrenaline-happy pretending not to consent and actually not consenting had been crossed.

And I can even forgive honestly forgetting a limit.  We play with dangerous things, and sometimes accidents happen.  But then how we handle accidents counts for a lot.  I too, actually, once slapped the face of a play partner for whom I hadn't realized face-slapping was a hard limit.  We were grappling, and he's significantly larger than I am, so our negotiation had been more about my limits than his.  His response in the moment was to say, "That was a hard limit," and acknowledge a lack of prior communication.  I apologized, and then he took the next hour away from me, and then eventually we moved on.  The accident didn't end our friendship or mutual respect, but it did end the scene.  What feels traumatizing in InSex's slapping debacle is how long it continues past the point of shattered trust.

So, while some of the InSex shoots are undeniably hot to me, I think I'll be sticking to their lighter (and still extant) rival Kink.com as my primary source of kinky porn.  Throughout the Leather Archives talk-back, Barbara Bell and the audience discussed Kink as less extreme and more theatrical than InSex - but I love that.  Kink shares InSex's reoccurring theme of non-consent, but it has more winks to the audience that everyone's just pretending.  There are the occasional archetypal costumes and "stories," and camera cuts from women struggling to the same women in highly intricate shibari ties.  I don't condemn InSex, but I still prefer kinky porn that less often breaks the stage-combat rule against making me stop and worry if the actors are okay.

(Posted at Annabelle River)

the Manitoban review by Leah Werier

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Winnipeg gets ready to experience Graphic Sexual Horror

A screen-shot of an electronic waiver is displayed. It allows a viewer to state, with a click of a mouse, that he or she is of legal age and consents to viewing whatever material is presented. In this case it is described as “graphic sexual horror.” After the waiver, very realistic, severe and frightening sadomasochistic scenes quickly fill the screen. Images of women bound and gagged, housed in elaborate contraptions, screaming with tears running down their face and makeup smudged. One image shows needles piercing through a woman’s nipples, another shows a model’s breasts bound with rope, her pale skin purple due to lack of circulation. Plastic bags cover a model's face. Bruises, blood and purple welts are all part of the spectacle.

These scenes are all part of Graphic Sexual Horror, a documentary about the notorious website Insex.com, for which all of this footage was made. Insex was one of the largest and most extreme BDSM pornographic websites and was eventually shut down by the U.S. Government's anti-terrorist Patriot Act. Directors Anna Lorenzton and Barbara Bell carefully combined graphic video footage and interviews they conducted with female models, videographer and website founder Brent Scott — known as “pd” — to give a behind-the-scenes look.

Lorenzton and Bell’s documentary raises much larger issues of manipulation, safety, consent and greed within the world that they were a part of. Both women were employed with Insex as photographers and screenwriters, respectively, and when discussing ideas for a project together, “kept coming back to all the crazy things that happened at Insex,” Lorenzton explained in a recent interview.

Bell further explained, “As a writer, the characters that came through the studio were better than I can make up. It was a great stew of human beings, sometimes making very clear the dilemmas of being alive.”

One of these dilemmas is that of safety. In one scene filmed for the website a model is inside of a large metal cage being forcefully submerged into a tank of water. As a viewer, one has a visceral reaction of fearing for this woman’s life. We do learn, however, that there are things such a “safe word.” The model can say the safe word at any time to stop the scene. But this issue of safety is raised in terms of contradictions: we know that there is this word, yet the word is “ugh huh.” which could be a fairly difficult sound to discern considering the situation. Moreover, at some points the models are completely covered in hoods or gagged, and, as a viewer, I assumed that this would make the safe word very hard to audibly communicate.

Lorenzton disagrees, “The safe word used is actually the easiest to say that I have come across, you can even say it with the mouth fully gagged.” Bell continued, “If a model safe worded, even with a hood on and gagged, it was generally very clear and the response was instantaneous.” Safety was very important to “pd,” who would continually check on models during live shoots, Bell explained, and people were always on set as spotters, waiting to move into a scene if there was a problem.

“But during the water scene, the model did actually safe word, and nobody heard it,” Lorenzton said. “I was filming the scene and didn't hear it until editing afterward. That is the only time during my five years with Insex that I, to my knowledge, missed a safe word.” Similar contradictions are associated with the hard limits the models agree to, and the terms and boundaries that they consent to before beginning a scene. In interviews, models say that they completely consented to these scenes, however some admit that they felt ashamed using the safe word during live feeds.

Live feeds were something this website invented; they would stream live video to paying viewers via the website. At one point they had 35,000 members paying $60 a month each to view content. During live feeds, viewers could type comments or suggestions, and their text was projected on a wall beside the model. In one particular scene — called the “S4 scene” — a member asks for the model to be slapped in the face. The result, she her hard limit are completely disregarded. She wants to continue with the scene so she can earn more money but she wants to make sure her limit isn’t crossed again. However, “pd” wants to give the paying customer what he wants. The monetary success of this site affected these already murky issues of safety, control and personal limits.

Bell explains the significance of this scene.

“We wanted to explore the way in which employers (in just about every job) use their authority and control of the paycheck to pressure people to do things they are not comfortable doing, thus blurring ‘consent’ in our daily lives,” she said. “We all accept the fact that our employers push the limits of our job description, but it looks so much worse when you see it in connection with this kind of sexual/torture porn footage. In some ways, the models have less at stake. They are working for one week. In our jobs, we can lose a regular paycheck and possibly medical benefits and pension.”

“The S4 piece was, to me, the perfect example of an employer trying to use the threat of stopping the money. And we are then trapped by our desire for the money. In many jobs the question becomes, 'What will I do for how much money?'” Bell remarks.

Winnipeg audiences will have the opportunity to experience Graphic Sexual Horror for themselves this Saturday in a one-time only screening at Aqua Books. Organized by local promoter Big Smash! Productions, the film will be preceded by a written message from Bell and followed by a video commentary prepared especially for the occasion. Such screenings are often followed by a discussion period where viewers can discuss what they have seen. Common points of discussion include consent, allowing other people to make decisions we personally object to, the possible objectification of women and the world of fetish and manipulation. Indeed, according to Bell, the extreme situations in Graphic Sexual Horror only “illuminate certain profound problems of being human, and the complexity inherent in all of life becomes clearer.”

Graphic Sexual Horror screens Saturday, Feb. 27 at 7 pm at Aqua Books. Admission is by donation.

Film Review: Graphic Sexual Horror at sexgenderbody.com

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Last night, I attended a screening of "Graphic Sexual Horror", directed by Barbara Bell and Anna Lorentzon.  The venue was the Leather Museum & Archives (LAM), who also sponsored the event along with The Jane Addams Hull-House Museum as part of the Sex+++ Documentary Film Series.  The event was presented by Dr. Jennifer Tyburczy, Ph.D. Director of Programming for the LAM and Clarisse Thorn.  Present for the showing and taking questions afterward, was Barbara Bell herself.  I was joined in the audience by blogger Rabbit White and her husband Ned.

So, the warning and disclaimer: This could easily trigger you.  I'm not even kidding.

This is a documentary about the creation of a website that produced media of women being tortured for people to watch as they masturbate.  BDSM porn...torture porn...whatever you may call it.

This is striking stuff and I found it difficult to separate my thoughts about the porn from my thoughts about what I thought of the film.  Which, I suppose is a nod toward the directors for presenting the subject without overtly interjecting themselves into the process.

The film is about 120min long and covers the story of how this website insex.com was conceived, launched, operated and finally shut down.  It starts right out off with a grainy film titled "worm" being shown.  The narrator, "pd" - is describing that this is his wife at the time, wrapped in vinyl, bound and laying on the floor.  The film then continues on through a series of interviews done recently, with staff members of insex.com relating their experiences on the site. 

Worm, Super 8, 1980. Art film by Brent Scott (AKA PD) that prompted an FBI investigation.

The film includes interviews with many of the models used in the website content, the metalsmith, "KGB", "pd" and many other staff members or others that had been in some way involved in the site. 

Judging the film as a documentary, I must say that the directors didn't proselytize in either direction: for or against.  They presented the words, thoughts and experiences of the people at insex.com in their own words and deeds, leaving it up to the audience to choose our own opinions.  With this subject's potential for volatile response and objection, there could easily be a temptation for a filmaker to guide the audience along to some conclusion.  This film does not provide the any such easy conclusions or safety nets.  We are left to choose for ourselves, just what we think of all of this.  As testament to this, I really had no thoughts about the film.  I was completely absorbed by my thoughts about the website, its creator, the models and the rest of the staff.

I had several trains of thought throughout the film.  Going into the film I didn't have any preconceived notions about the film itself.  I deliberately avoided learning anything about the film or its subject matter in advance.  Knowing that the subject matter was going to be extreme, I chose to see it with little foreknowledge.  I wanted to avoid forming my conclusions ahead of time. 

I did have one fear: namely that in the Q & A afterward, I'd be subjected to a bunch of pontificating, suck-ups trying to sound intelligent and flattering in the nervous energy that follows such an extreme spectacle of emotion and intimacy.  I've probably been to one too many sci-fi conventions.

So, anyway.  I was watching these scenes of torture, interviews and erotica intersplliced, overlayed and discussed.  I had an assortment of thoughts that went through my head.  I'll list them here, in no particular order.

Brent Scott,(AKA PD) and 912 discussing videography during a shoot with Star (model) in the barn at the farm.

Consent: the models came to the job because of money and not for any love of BDSM.  The film covers the viewpoints of the models and the site's filmakers and it opened up several questions about where consent is given.  The film creates or rather, illuminates the subtlety around consent; the dynamic tension that comes with the insertion of money into the equation.

One of the models actually approached pd for a session, believing initially that she would be paying him for the torture session.  She not only stayed on as a paid model, but moved behind the camera and into a relationship with pd.  So, this is not a black & white topic by any means.

Hydrophobia, Live feed, 2005.  Caged 922 about to be submerged in The Tank.

Money: the film's trailer has a line about greed, but in considering consent I kept asking myself about whether there was still consent if the girls felt "need" instead of "greed".  In other words, if they were being tortured and didn't need the money or could get the same money elsewhere - then it is pretty much a freely given consent.  If the girls did not feel that they could get that money in any other way, then I question whether the consent is in some way coerced.  I can't tell of course because I'm second-guessing these women and doing so in the face of their own admission that they were fully aware of their own choices. 

So, it's important to remember here that my projections onto whether or not they have any agency in their own lives is a negation of their own assertions.  I think that this issue is ignored a lot in discussions of consent surrounding sex work in specific, but echoed in feminism, gender identity conversations, disability conversations and personal identity as a topic.  One aspect of respecting personal space and identity is to accept that one we must all be free to choose things that others would not choose or agree with.  One model mentioned the process she went through as her path of learning and mistakes. 

120 (model) on Rack, 2004. Insex Live Feed with Brent Scott (AKA PD) and crew.

Power/Control: The girls all had a "safe word" which they could use at any time.  pd had the money and that was control.  What is the power relationship between men who have money and women who do not?

Several women were encouraged or invited to "play" with pd off-camera.  Sometimes that meant sex, sometimes kink.  This is where the human element of the director played into the picture.  The girls that played with him got paid more and the implication was that play meant pay and no play meant no pay.  That is sexual harassment.  Now, if sexual harassment happens between the shift manager at a convenience store and one of the clerks, it's just sexual harassment and it means nothing about the convenience store business.  I happen to think the same reasoning applies here.  It might be a temptation to just lay into the whole torture porn or porn business because of sexual harassment, but that is a mistake in my view.  It allows the sexual harasser to shift the conversation away from the harassment.  Harassment is harassment and the industry is unimportant. 

Dairy, Insex, 2003. Stone wall with women in metal cages at the farm.

Sexism:  I am watching this film and it's men torturing pretty women.  I'm thinking: "how fucking typical is this crap?"  Then I realized that this is only one site.  There are sites that show men being tortured...by other men & by women.  

This site takes the inequality of our sexist societies and exacerbates them for the people that can orgasm by reveling in the inequality of sexism.  By playing out a gross characterization of male objectification and cruelty, this site is only one aspect of such fantasies.  The sites that have men brutalized are built to please the fantasies of those who want to see the opposite portrayed to extremes.

It's easy to lash out at this site and say that it's vile, foul, sexist, misogynistic, etc.  One could easily jump all over pd and the rest of the site staff.  It's real tempting to start imagining what these women were thinking, what their choices were, how they felt or feel and to judge what they should do or want or feel.  Doing so, is a huge negation of their right to make their own choices and a negation of their own stated experiences and views of their lives.

The fact is that I am no more qualified or entitled to judge or valuate these women for being paid to be tortured than I am to decide the worth or quality of my neighbor.  In fact, the real sexism is in declaring that I know what's best for these women and obliterating their story of their own lives with my assessment.

Stimulation: Brain chemistry is everything and how we trigger our bodies to get the orgasm chemicals to the brain - is different for everyone.  For some, it's 'vanilla' hetero-cis sex, for others it's ingested in the form of food or drugs and for others still, it's a complex mix of physical triggers.  Some of us like to feel pain, some of us like to look at pain.  Hell, some of us just like rubber balloons.  It's all chemicals and the film points out that everyone here was consenting. 

Hydrophobia, Live Feed, 2005. Caged 922 being repeatedly dunked in The Tank during a Live Feed.

Ritual: More than one woman discussed the experiences in terms of facing challenges and overcoming their limits of fear and endurance in terms very much like men talk about toughing out grueling sports or the military.  They seemed to find that it was a rite of passage to mark their transition into a greater maturity or strength.  I didn't expect that.

Art: pd really had an amazing knack for setting up amazing, striking images.  Every scene was compelling in terms of color, focus and composition.  He really has a knack for setting a stage.

Morality: I won't even get into what I think morality is because I think we're each entitled to our own definitions and as long as we orgasm with consenting adults or alone, then it's no one else's concern.  The website was shut down by the department of homeland security using the Patriot Act.  This brings up a very dangerous question of morality, namely:

If the morality police are lying in order to alter our behavior, then is the whole point negated?

"KGB", the website's metalsmith said something about their being attacked by the US Gov't for morality:

"The US Government has secret jails where they torture people that don't want to be tortured, but make it illegal for us to torture people who want to be tortured."

Incidentally, that guy - KGB was fucking hilarious.  I could watch two hours of him talking and that would be totally worth my time.

So, in conclusion I will say this.  This film's subject is not an easy thing to watch.  The film itself is well done.  It gave a clear view of the website content, its creator, the models and the site crew.  I can tell you that I won't be watching the film archives of insex.com but I did come to some understanding of what I have in common with those who do.  I think that's all I really could hope for with exposure to anyone's point of view that differs from my own.

-arvan

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Graphic Sexual Horror is on Netflix

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Graphic Sexual Horror is on Netflix, and the more people add it to their list, the sooner it will actually be available for rent!

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Screenings Feb-March, NY, Boston, Winnipeg

Feb 12        Buffalo New York at Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center

            http://www.hallwalls.org/

            Fri., Feb. 12, 2010 at 8:00 p.m.

          $7 general, $5 students/seniors, $4 members 

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      Feb 12       Chicago Illinois Leather Archives and Museum     Director Barbara Bell attending screening.

Feb 21       New York, NY at The Center put on by instigatenyc.org

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      Third Sundays at the Center 5:00 - 7:00 in Room 310 - Sliding scale $7 - 0

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      Film Presentation - Graphic Sexual Horror 

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      Instigate NYC's first film screening and it's a film you can't see ANYWHERE. "Graphic Sexual Horror" is an award-winning documentary about Insex.com, a bondage website that was shut down using the Patriot Act. It explores the dark mind of its artistic creator and asks hard questions about personal responsibility. The theme of consent and what consent means when money is involved is central. Stay after the film for a discussion. This screening will begin at 5:05 to maximize the time we have to discuss afterward. Thanks to the co-director Barbara Bell for making this screening possible. 
       

Feb 25        Winnipeg Canada  Big Smash Productions

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      Big Smash! presents the Outsider Asylum Documentary Series:

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      GRAPHIC SEXUAL HORROR

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      Thursday Feb. 25th - 8pm

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      Ellice Theatre - 587 Ellice Ave

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      Admission $5 / $2 DOC members + students w/ valid ID 

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      March 17   Boston, MA  Boston Cinemental co-sponsored by Boston Underground Film Festival - Insex model 912                     in attendance:

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      CineMental Presents: Graphic Sexual Horror

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      at Brattle Theatre

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      40 Brattle Street Harvard Sq. Cambridge

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      9:30pm $10

October 24th, 2009: Bergen International Film Festival

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Bergen Film Festival presspress

With a population of 385,450, it is pretty amazing that the beautiful town of Bergen, Norway, can put on such an impressive festival of 140 films.

One sensationalist evening paper had 3 full pages with pictures from the film, in color, "festival shock film", all neatly presented by the festival upon arriving.

The festival has its 10th year anniversary, and founder Tor Fosse was kind enough to take us out for lunch as we arrived, having the first journalist come to the restaurant.

There were three interviews lined up, running back and forth between the hotel and cinema to catch parts of films inbetween. The largest daily paper managed to trick me with their question of what age restriction I thought was suitable for the film. I always considered GSH to be 18+ (could be an effect of my 15 years in the US, there are certainly scarier images every day on the news). Here in Norway, the festival tickets are allowed for everybody over 15, and the festival did not see it necessary to put a higher age limit on it. But, I did also say that if the festival thinks 15 is ok, they are the ones that are used to Norwegian standards. It is very nice to be back in a Scandinavian country. Here at least the papers are trying to make a scandal of the film, when in the US no regular paper would touch it. At least it will probably mean that the the remaining tickets will be bought by 15 year olds.

The one film I managed to see all of was "Shooting Robert King", strongly recommended. It tells the story of war photograper King over 15 years, from his first attempts to get into the industri in Sarajevo. It is very rare that you see the baby steps of what will become one of the greatest in the field.

At night, the mayor hosted a dinner for the filmmakers. Delicious sea food and lovely company.

We want to thank Tor Fosse and all the other organizers and volunteers for making a film festival that is so important for Scandinavia and all of Europe also an extremely smooth and pleasurable one to be a part of.

audienceaudience audienceaudience "He did get kicked in the balls once!""He did get kicked in the balls once!" "It was all giggles and kittens working on it""It was all giggles and kittens working on it" "Why, hello!";"Why, hello!"; Flying into BergenFlying into Bergen No, no one got hurt....No, no one got hurt.... Bright Lights, Big MovieBright Lights, Big Movie

 

 

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