Destricted

18, 115mins

Destricted is a series of seven short films by eminent artists that explores the boundary between pornography and art. In Matthew Barney’s Hoist, a naked savage with a large gourd implanted in his rear has sex with the lubricated crank shaft of a large tractor. Clearly one for the ladies.

In Marina Abramovic’s Balkan Erotic Epic, colourful peasants fondle their breasts while she tells us how a live fish, when implanted into the vagina and allowed to die, makes a very good cup of fertility coffee for the lucky husband.

And so it goes. Larry Clark interviews young men about what they would like to do to porn stars. Gaspar Noé switches on his stroboscope to film a man and his blow-up doll. And Sam Taylor-Wood films a hunky youth masturbating in Death Valley to mood music. Lovely. I now feel thoroughly enlightened.