Short films A-Z HERE
Abbreviations:
H = Hetero, S = Gay, L = Lesbian, T = Transgender,
NX = does not contain explicit sex scenes, X = contains explicit sex scenes,
D = documentary film, FT = Fetish, SW = Sexwork
(films on this year's special theme sex work & prostitution),
F = films made by female directors
Park / S, NX
25.10., 18:15, Kant 1, Short film programme "Fun Porn"
28.10., 16:00, Eiszeit 1, Short film programme "Fun Porn"
USA, 2003, 7 minutes, Charles M. Lum, European Premiere, English original version
In public, the ubiquity and/or invisibility of video cameras now mix observation with voyeurism, performance and entrapment. In "Park", as audience, we become complicit in a forbidden desire. The viewer, as camera, both instigates and records this event; a literal video seduction. Are we witnessing a performance or a crime? "Park" addresses complexities of HIV with an open, conspicuous stare. By generating the affect of surveillance while refusing narrative conclusion, it questions the boundaries of both knowledge and privacy.