'Balkan Erotic Epic' _____ (director) Marina Abramović tells the viewer about some folkloric facts from the Balkan concerning men and women engaging in certain sexual (or close to that, I suppose) acts to gain better crops, happiness or such, combined with animation and a few arty outdoor scenes. Fascinating in a way, and even confronting to learn of man's superstitions yet again. Some nice folk singing, but cinematically nothing special beyond some nice imagery and the okay animated parts. (4)
'Sync' _____ Stupendously simple and boring fast collage of porn images combined with a fast, but rather dull, drum solo. Good thing it's so short. (1)
'Hoist' _____ Starts with a good and original little idea which, erm, grows... bring on the machinery and the stuntman. Highly contemplative, somewhat homo-erotic and even looked pretty dangerous to me. Good, or at the very least, fascinating stuff. (8)
'Impaled' _____ An interesting documentary approach, but hard to figure what these opinions of bothered young men and experienced porn stars (only the amazing Sativa Rose did I recognize) are really worth... Still, interesting and sincere. And then, the impaling... A rather painful act to watch, in more than one way. But now he knows. (6)
'We f*ck alone' _____ A poor example of Noé's familiar style with the flashing and the... I forget what music it was. The idea is simple, but hardly interesting, and the point of dragging it out like that is beyond me... I skipped about 10 out of 23 (!) minutes. (2)
'House call' _____ (original, I assume?) '70s porn on an old TV (filmed so up-close, one can see the 'squares' on the screen) with a soundtrack that sounded like Sigur Ros. Colorful, vintage nudity and eerie, mesmerizing music. Kind of fun. (6) -EDIT- It turns out that the beautiful lady here is vintage porn star Dawn Knudsen (which is very much like Fawn Knudsen - guess where that's from? Yes, indeed 'The big Lebowski') aka Dee Dee aka Dawn Wallace aka etc., I don't know why it says Kora Reed here on IMDb...
'Death valley' _____ A big, muscular man gets on his knees somewhere in Death Valley with beautiful mountains behind him and jerks off. He changes position a few times, so I'm assuming it wasn't an easy feat. Not exactly fun, but somehow understandable to want to put 'man against nature' this way. (6)
In conclusion: there is some interesting stuff here, though I had expected more actual storytelling with actual actors over plain nudity, porn, genitals, etc.. 4 + 1 + 8 + 6 + 2 + 6 + 6 divided by 7 results in about 4,7142857142857142857142etc., which I will round up to 5.
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