Destricted is a 2006 anthology film that explores the line where art and pornography intersect. The United Kingdom and United States film releases had overlapping but different short art-house erotic films. The film collection won awards at a range of international film festivals.
Contents
Releases
The UK version released in 2006 runs at 114 minutes and includes seven short films:
Balkan Erotic Epic (Marina Abramović, 14:04) - An erotic comedy about myths from the Balkans about sex organs.
Sync (Marco Brambilla, 02:15) - Consists of very fast cuts from different porn films.
Impaled (Larry Clark, 38:28) - A casting for a porn film, but not with the insecure women often displayed; instead, the young men are the insecure ones.
Death Valley (Sam Taylor-Wood, 08:25) - A man masturbates in the desert.
House Call (Richard Prince, 12:29) - A vintage sex scene recontextualized with edits and music.
Hoist (Matthew Barney, 14:38) - A juxtaposition of sexuality and industrial machinery.
We Fuck Alone (Gaspar Noé, 23:31) - A man and a woman masturbate to the same porn film in different rooms.
The US version (2010) runs at 129 minutes and includes eight shorts, four from the earlier plus four new ones: Marilyn Minter's Green Pink Caviar, Cecily Brown's Four Letter Heaven, Clark's Impaled, Noé's We Fuck Alone, Prince's House Call, Sante D'Orazio's Scratch This and Tunga's Cooking. It excludes Balkan Erotic Epic, Sync and Death Valley.
Reception
Upon release Destricted received a negative to mixed reception from critics, on Rotten Tomatoes the film has an approval rating of 17% out of 12 critics, with an average score of 4.80/10.
Cast
Impaled
Daniel as himself
August as herself
Jasmine Byrne as herself
Destiny Deville (uncredited) as herself
Dillan Lauren as herself
Sativa Rose as herself
Angela Stone as herself
Nancy Vee as herself
House Call
Kora Reed as the Patient
John Saint John as the Doctor
Hoist
Vincente Pinho Neto as Blooming Greenman
Death Valley
Chris Raines
We Fuck Alone
Shirin Barthel
Richard Blondel
Manuel Ferrara
Katsuni