“Pornographia” is a rape-culture interrogation machine.
An organized group of criminals, specifically target young women and, the wives of the migrant labors and, trick them into having sex on camera and, sometime force them to prostitution and, sexual slavery.
The hyper-real look and the mostly un-staged documentary content, in “Pornographia”, makes for a grueling viewing experience in the realm of the taboo and déclassé.
In essence the movie puts a Duchampian frame around the Girls Gone Wild genre of documentary porn, if not its hard-core online analogues.
Pornographia is, also, a film about its own making vis-a-vis the pornographic/the chauvinist/the racist mind and, the conditions which sustains it: Pornographia examines certain behaviors and events in our culture such as sexual slavery, rape, genocide and, explores images from the pornographer’s mind where we all participate, as consumers and, cultural producers, with, as Hannah Arendt tells us, nothing behind us but the past, into an odorless, constantly sharable Digital time, which is, in turns, comprises of infinite identical units, all infinitely replicable and, equally weightless.
This film attempts to interrogate how and, in what way we want to know things and, experience image today;when and through what processes images of violation–think, Guantanamo or images of American army using rape as a weapon of ethnic cleansing–or murder become mass entertainment.
Are there residues of violence that accumulate from digital-time passing into atomizing oblivion?
Is there any ethical complexity throbbing in the outskirts of the Frame,in an époque, where rapists rush to post torture porn on Facebook/Youtube?
Is rape culture in here to stay?
Is what philosopher Paul Virilio calls “purewar” is the new peace?