Gaspar Noé on Film, Sex, and Sexualized Violence
Posted at 10:59 PM Apr 10, 2008
The most recently posted interview in Premiere's Sex in Film series is with Gasper Noé, the Argentinian born director who is responsible for such films as Carne, I Stand Alone, Sodomites, Irreversible, We Fuck Alone (a segment in Destricted). Unlike erotic artist Terence Healy, whose rejection letter from Bumbershoot 2008 I featured on Monday, Noé could actually be legitimately characterized as misanthropic.
Like any artist, he's got his moment of claiming boredom:
Everybody sees so many images everyday that you get bored by them. After a while, you just want to reinvent this small part of the language to enjoy using it. So whatever you can do that is a little bit off-track [helps] not getting bored.
Plus his moment of making fucked up statements about rape:
Like when you are 9, 10, 11 you are always afraid of being raped — because it has happened to someone you know. I had many close and not-so-close friends who at a certain point during their childhood had been raped in the street or at school. But once you start your sexual life, you stop being afraid of that.
And his assertion about the whole art vs. porn thing:
There is no line between art and pornography.
Read the whole interview here.
--Audacia Ray
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