Video

We've Met Before

Maya Ben David

2015, 04:33 minutes, colour, English

TAPECODE 1074.05

We’ve Met Before explores human desires that become possible through fictitious worlds in animation. It focuses on a fetish called “Vore” which is the fantasy to be consumed or to consume another person or fictional character whole. The fetish is not about cannibalism but about absorbing and consuming a desired person or creature. The phenomenon of “Vore” first started appearing in early video games around the 1990s but it has roots in many forms of culture. An example of this would be Jonah and the Whale. The main consistency in these “Vore” videos is the use of scale to determine power dynamics. It is common in “Vore” videos that the party who is consuming, is giant in comparison to the consumed. For example, a thirty foot tall male fox swallowing a small woman. That is where reality requires fiction to make this fantasy possible. The sub culture of “Vore” is very open ended when it comes to sexuality. However, the most common dynamic, is a woman swallowing another woman. Dynamics of power and control are evident in the role women play in these animations.

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We've Met Before
by Amber Christensen.