Straight women, gay porn, and the scene of erotic looking
Jump Cut, Mar. 1996, no. 40, pp. 127-136
"Gay porn offers me a way to look at men, overtly sexually, without being looked back at, or in the process pulled into a heterosexual power relation that would inevitably disadvantage me."
Looking at independent filmmakers and 'alternative pornography'. Arousal / provocation, spectatorship / spectacularity, subjectivity and gender, race, classical vs. radical representations of sexuality. Experimental queer film, psychoanalysis, feminism. Analysis of 5 new works [Katherine Hurbis-Cherrier, Curt McDowell, Greta Snider, Ming-Yuen S. Ma, Karim Ainouz].
ITEM 1996.058 – available for viewing in the Research Centre
Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited
Gom (1994) – Kobena Mercer
Flesh of Morning (1956) – Julien Mercer
You(r) Sex and Other Stuff (1993) – Tom Waugh
1972 Ronnie – Kirby Hsu
Shred of Sex (1991) – Stan Brakhage
Slanted Vision (1996) – Katherine Hurbis-Cherrier
Paixao Nacional (1994) – Curt McDowell
Those Fluttering Objects of Desire – Greta Snider
Let's Just Kiss and Say Good-Bye (1995) – Ming-Yuen S. Ma
Sex Bombs! (1987) – Karim Ainouz
The Yo-Yo Gang (1992) – Lawrence Brose
Orientations (1984) – Jurgen Bruning
Chinese Characters (1987) – Shu Lea Cheang
Seven Questions for Sticky Rice (1994) – Thom Chomont
Cathy Cook
John Di Stefano
Shari Filot
John Greyson
Thomas Allan Harris
Mike Hoolbom
Isaac Julien
Bruce la Bruce
Karethe Linaae
Wrik Mead
Steve Reinke
Marlon Riggs
Philippe Roque
Carolee Schneeman
Chick Strand
Andy Warhol/Paul Morrissey
Robert Blanchon
Candyland Productions
G.B. Jones
Richard Fung
Richard Fung
Hong Nguyen