Main Cast: Ana Vukovic, Natasa Vukovic, Natasa Milenkovic, Igor Kamberovic, Aleksandar Lazarevic
Release Year: 2006
Country: US/UK
Run Time: 116 minutes
Plot
As helmed by a series of avant-garde performance artists and provocateurs, the seven-episode omnibus picture Destricted both pays homage to classic porn and deconstructs the concepts of obscenity and voyeurism, with a series of extreme tonal variations on the sexual act. The premier episode, artist Matthew Barney's "Hoist" (which is laced with transsexual metaphors) depicts a bizarre mating ritual between a man with a giant cucumber for a penis and a 50-ton deforesting Caterpillar truck. For the second go-round, House Call, notorious still photographer Richard Prince (best known for "re-photographing" the Garry Gross nudes of Brooke Shields) re-shoots to the point of graininess (and re-dubs) images from a "classic" hardcore sequence involving an encounter between a stud (John Saint John) and a chesty woman (Kora Reed), and their kinky games with a thermometer. Commercial veteran Marco Brambilla authored the third episode, "Sync" - a kind of "teaser" - by splicing together thousands of split-second sequences from sex scenes in both hardcore and mainsteam features, and "matching up" the action (creating a sequence with it of the various film segments), from foreplay to climax. Controversial director Larry Clark (Kids, Ken Park) authored the fourth (and longest, at 38 minutes) segment, entitled "Impaled"; it begins with a series of spontaneous, one-on-one interviews with adolescent boys, where Clark asks them intimate questions about their sexual fantasies and sexual desires, and indicates that he plans to select one to undergo an unsimulated, hardcore sex scene with an actual porno actress. The film then cuts to the "act" itself, which proves ironically mechanical and untitillating for its male participant. Sam Taylor-Wood' "Death Valley" constitutes the fifth segment and offers an extended (voyeuristic) glimpse of a man in the desert who masturbates to ejaculation. The sixth segment, Marina Abramovic's much-acclaimed "Balkan Erotic Epic," provides a riotous parody of ethnic sexual rituals, in which women expose their breasts and "mate" with the ground, and men fertilize gardens with their semen. And Gaspar Noe's closer, "We Fuck Alone," combines the influence of Tamaño Natural and Flicker by depicting copulation between a man and an inflatable sex doll - as filmed beneath an alienating strobe light. As a measure of U.S. society's love-it-or-hate-it conservatism, this picture ran at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival but skipped U.S. arthouse distribution (to say nothing of a mainstream American release). It did, however, receive a European theatrical run. ~ Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide
Cast
Ana Vukovic
Natasa Vukovic
Natasa Milenkovic
Igor Kamberovic
Aleksandar Lazarevic
Branislava Petrovic; Jovana Stokic; Jelena Obradovic; Vojkan Stankovic; Dino Dinoni; Aleksandra Rankovic; Danka Nikolic; Bosiljka Krkovic; Goce Balkovic; Fikrija Filipovic; Nenad Stefanovic; Tihomir Grbic; Bosiljka Gemajevic; Dregan Simeonovic; Ana-Humijan Colic; Electra Woodbridge; Aleksandar Gemaljevic; Goran Delic; Durica Stankov; Zivorad Dordevic; Zoran Brklja; Goran Brklja; Goran Miloevic; Milan Miloevic; Anjelka Vujinovic; Mima Dukanovic; Dusan Jeftovic; Chris Raines - Man; Vicente Pinho Neto - Blooming Greenman; John Saint John - The Doctor; Kora Reed - The Patient; Nancy Vee; Jasmine Byrne; Sativa Rose; Angie Stone; Dillan Lauren; August; Taylor; Faisal Saif; Katsumi; Manu Ferrara; Shirin Barthel; Richard Blondel
Credit
Christopher Volk-Zimmerman - Animator, Joseph Maurillo - Animator, Chelsea Romersa - Associate Producer, Jared Moshe - Associate Producer, Robert Lombard - Casting, Frederik Carlstrom - Co-producer, Monica Summerville - Co-producer, Bas Celik - Co-producer, Jelena Mitrovic - Co-producer, Igor Kecman - Co-producer, Olga Markovic - Costume Designer, Marco Brambilla - Director, Larry Clark - Director, Gaspar Noé - Director, Matthew Barney - Director, Marina Abramovic - Director, Richard Prince - Director, Sam Taylor-Wood - Director, Marco Brambilla - Editor, Alex Blatt - Editor, Rob Auten - Editor, Christopher Volk-Zimmerman - Editor, Akiko Iwakawa - Editor, Joni Sighvatsson - Executive Producer, Andrew Herwitz - Executive Producer, Mark Fletcher - Executive Producer, Kenny Brant - Location Manager, Robert Lombard - Line Producer, Veronic Cordeiro - Line Producer, Jonathan Bepler - Composer (Music Score), Richard Prince - Composer (Music Score), Byron Kent Wong - Musical Direction/Supervision, Tamara Spasojevic - Makeup, Miryana Zaric - Makeup, Gabe Bartalos - Makeup Special Effects, Atlantic West Effects - Makeup Special Effects, James Lozeau - Camera Operator, Matthew D. Ryle - Production Designer, Seamus Mcgarvey - Cinematographer, Peter Strietmann - Cinematographer, Aleksandar Llic - Cinematographer, Eric Volke - Cinematographer, Robbie Pheln - Production Manager, Alexander Lee - Production Manager, Neville Wakefield - Producer, Mel Agace - Producer, Andrew Hale - Producer, Michelle Oznowicz - Research, Sonya Knop - Research, Mike Thompson - Research, Olivera Katarina - Singer, Svetlana Spajic - Singer, Ljubomir Simic - Special Effects, Jonathan Bepler - Sound Mixer, Jonathan Bepler - Sound/Sound Designer, Goran Stifanic - Sound/Sound Designer, Matt Rocker - Sound Editor, Milan Stojanovic - Unit Production Manager, Matthew Barney - Screenwriter, Marina Abramovic - Screenwriter, Richard Prince - Screenwriter, Sam Taylor-Wood - Screenwriter, Paulo Roberto DeSouza - Gaffer, Richard Prince - Musical Performer, Cathy Rich - Musical Performer, Christopher Seguine - Post Production Supervisor, Jesse A. Roberts - Post Production Supervisor, Dejan Vidic - Properties, Gabe Bartalos - Prosthetic Makeup Effects, Kelly Vandever - Re-Recording Mixer, Hal Arnold - Production Accountant, Matmos - Featured Music
