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- From: mec6@quads.uchicago.edu (rini)
- Subject: Re: Choice?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.170441.11269@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Keywords: abortion, pornography
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- Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
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- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 17:04:41 GMT
- Lines: 56
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- quilty@titan.ucc.umass.edu (Humberto Humbertoldi) writes:
-
- > BTW, rini, I just LOVE a.sprinkle from interviews I've read,
- >but haven't seen her or her film(s). If you feel like talking about
- >the film any further on this group, I would hang on every word.
-
- Sure, I can do a quickie review. :)
-
- The film was called The Sluts and Goddess Video Workshop. It's not
- exactly what I would call porn, although it does contain explicit
- imagery. I totally understand the useage of the term "post-porn" for
- her stuff.
-
- The movie opens with Annie center stage. She is dressed in a
- conservatively cut, navy blue dress, with a lovely beehive hairdo.
- (She reminds me of the woman who used to do Romper Room.) She
- speaks in very calm terms as she opens this "self-help workshop"
- designed to help bring out the slut and goddess in every woman.
-
- Quickly, it becomes apparent that she is making a tremendous farce
- of the typical new-age Woman self-help video. (She talks about
- the importance of a nice facial, and the proper make-up, etc.)
- She introduces six women who are our "transcendental guides" in this
- spiritual journey. (There are no men in the movie, btw.)
-
- The basic format of the movie stays fairly constant. Annie's school
- teacherish, innocent image is superimposed on the foreground of the
- movie, highlighted by a neon pink aura. She casually strolls back
- and forth as she lectures. Behind her cut-out image, our Guides,
- and occasionally Annie herself, demostrate the "paths of exploration"
- which are the subject of her talk. These "paths" include meditation,
- orgasmic breathing, "sexercises", and, of course, sex itself...
- (She urges, "Come 'on! Grab some friends and follow along with us!")
-
- Annie excels at bringing the taboo into the open, making it okay, and
- then laughing at it. Like when she talks about choosing a "slut name"
- she says something like "choose something that refers to your favorite
- body part. Like 'Lana Legs', or 'Betty Boobs'." (She has a million
- examples that are better than those, but I've forgotten them.)
- Personally, I find this very refreshing. She makes me laugh at the
- sex industry. ("Make some porn yourself. You'll find that you can
- do it better than the professionals....") In the light of day that
- Annie casts, I think most people would agree that the "dark and dirty
- business" as it stands today is really quite silly. Very silly.
-
- Anyway, it was a real pleasure and think the whole audience got a
- big kick out of it. I think a couple people expected it to be more
- like a "real" porn movie, but that's just my guess. I think I can
- say that I really did learn something from it too, so it was more
- than just a farcical laugh.
-
- I have not seen Annie in person, but a couple of my friend saw her
- and Karen Finley to a performance thing in Chicago not too long ago,
- and they said it was wonderful.
-
- rini
-