Its where we post research, materials and ideas that will go into shaping the night. If you have any ideas you want to share on the topic please put them in the comments, or you can write your own post if you send it to us at bioskop@cubecinema.com.
- Sunday
- whitehouse – I’m coming up your ass / led zep – whole lotta love
- cosmic ray
- Women’s orgasm – how do you KNOW?
- Sexed Robots – delivery system
- hoist by matthew barney
- Tampopo
- why orgasm?
- orgasm in music – part one
Sunday
Last modified on 2011-01-13 19:20:54 GMT. 0 comments. Top.
Sunday (John Lawlor, Ireland)
Sunday from John Lawlor on Vimeo.
whitehouse – I’m coming up your ass / led zep – whole lotta love
Last modified on 2010-12-17 01:10:36 GMT. 0 comments. Top.
William Bennett: “The way I would rationalise it is we engage with rock’n'roll not as a musical form but as sex. I see Whitehouse ultimately, if we reduce it down to one word, as being about sex. If you look at sex, in fact it’s the one thing in most Heavy Metal or in Death Metal, that’s completely taboo. They’ll talk about anything else, any horror imaginable can be referred to but when it comes to sex it’s never dealt with. It’s the same with noise bands. If we understand rock’n'roll as being sex music then Led Zepplin, thought they’re not a personal guilty pleasure of mine, are definitely sex music. Often people have problems with titles like “My Cock’s On Fire” or “I’m Coming Up Your Ass”. That’s because they really have a problem with sex…
[Our music] has that in common with original blues. It’s explicit in that sense. It’s not being murky about it. But it’s not a subject people feel comfortable with. It makes people very upset if you bring it up…
The big taboo is being attracted to women, and not far behind that is being attracted to men.”
Robert Plant’s orgasm manipulated by Jimmy Page’s theramin – 2.10
The Bioskop highly recommend starting the whitehouse and led zeppelin videos simultaneously and using the youtube volume controls to mix your own whole lot of coming in your as.
This works particularly well if you then expand the whitehouse/jeremy solterbeck video to full screen.
and while we’re in the zone…
Here’s Anal Staircase in tribute and celebration of Peter Christophersen – covert surveillance enthusiast, graphic designer, video director and founding member of Throbbing Gristle, Psychic TV, and Coil who died on 25th November.
In this Mathew Collings interview Coil’s motto is described as ritual music for the accumulation of male sexual energy. RIP Sleazy 1955 -2010
cosmic ray
Last modified on 2010-11-10 12:10:59 GMT. 0 comments. Top.
by bruce conner
although youtube has removed the original ray charles soundtrack, with ingenuity you can do a rough rescore on the film by syncing up the record below with the start of the film …
With its montage of erotic dancers, fireworks, big guns, explosions, military destruction, and mushroom clouds, Cosmic Ray seems to be referencing the work of radical psychologist Wilhelm Reich , a writer whose books were burned by both the German Nazi party of the 1930s and the US government of the 1950s. We’ll be returning to Reich and his theories around orgasm in future entries on this page…
Women’s orgasm – how do you KNOW?
Last modified on 2010-10-22 10:41:22 GMT. 0 comments. Top.
“In her seminal book Hard Core: Power, Pleasure, and the ‘Frenzy of the Visible’, first published in 1989, Linda Williams accounts for hardcore pornography as a discourse of sexuality. Drawing on Michel Foucault, she discusses pornography in terms of scientia sexualis, of the scientific will to know, understand and explain sex. She demonstrates how the genre is obsessed with finding the truth about and (literally and metaphorically) shedding light on sex through representing, capturing and providing visual evidence of sexual pleasure. Lighting, framing, camera angles, close-ups, body positions and, not least, editing are part of the machinery that works to unveil the secrets about what sex is. Hardcore pornography builds on a principle of maximum visibility; an idea that the visible can prove that pleasure is taking place. This principle has led to a number of generic formal conventions such as the beaver shot, the meat shot and the cum shot.
However, pornography has one problem: how to know and capture women’s sexuality? The pornographic model of maximum visibility builds on the premise that sexual desire and pleasure can be illuminated, displayed and revealed by the body’s visible functions. In the case of men, sexual pleasure is assumed to express and reveal itself through penile erection and ejaculation – features that have been established as the visible proof of pleasure. From this perspective women become a troublesome object of difference. Women’s sexual pleasures escape the principle of maximum visibility and the scientific method of measuring, knowing and explaining sex.”
Linda Williams’ book, female ejaculation and queer pornography are discussed in essay ‘Maximizing Visibility’ by Ingrid Ryberg, in Film International. Download it here
Sexed Robots – delivery system
Last modified on 2011-03-26 22:39:49 GMT. 0 comments. Top.
by Paul Granjon
hoist by matthew barney
Last modified on 2010-10-14 22:33:32 GMT. 0 comments. Top.
Tampopo
Last modified on 2010-09-22 13:46:22 GMT. 0 comments. Top.
why orgasm?
Last modified on 2011-06-12 22:52:50 GMT. 0 comments. Top.
Because its a phenomenon that with luck every human being experiences, the Bioskop is very interested how Orgasm appears in different forms of cultural expression … music, songs, political discourse, films, conversation gossip, photography, stories …
Because sex has so often been a taboo subject through history, and perhaps orgasm is an element of sex that particularly taps into latent body horror, Orgasm doesn’t appear too often undisguised in mainstream “polite” culture. But we suspect that a physical phenonomenon thats so universal and powerful must gain expression in abstracted form even when it can’t be expressed openly and blatantly….
And again Orgasm is fascinating because it is messy and uncontrollable and reveals a fundamental bodily physicality of us all which is often hidden and denied by the civilised behaviours of social norms….
And finally while Orgasm is a potentially universal phenomenon that is experienced by all of us it is experienced by the sexes in different ways – as an internal phenomenon for women and as an external phenomenon for men… and difference always interests us.
orgasm in music – part one
Last modified on 2010-08-25 10:03:20 GMT. 0 comments. Top.
Three pop songs that all contain the sounds of (presumably faked) female orgasms , and one with a gay male (synthetic!) orgasm.
please contact us with any other suggestions of music containing orgasms, figurative or abstract and we’ll put them up here… a prize of one Bioskop ticket goes to the first person who can suggest an example of the elusive heterosexual male orgasm in pop music.