Pornocracy The Changing Landscape of the Porn Industry
French feminist icon, filmmaker, and adult film director Ovidie investigates shocking modern changes in the international adult film industry and how the arrival of web sites showing amateur and pirated clips has transformed the way porn is made and consumed.
Official Selection at the SXSW Film Festival.
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79 mins
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2017
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Ovidie and the people she interviews do a decent job of illustrating how the porn industry has spiraled "out of control" since the 2006-08 market crisis (when piracy and streaming took off), causing producers to lose money, pornstars to no longer achieve the fame and fortune they once might ...Read more
Ovidie and the people she interviews do a decent job of illustrating how the porn industry has spiraled "out of control" since the 2006-08 market crisis (when piracy and streaming took off), causing producers to lose money, pornstars to no longer achieve the fame and fortune they once might have, and actresses/models to sign on for more dangerous, abusive, and outrageous acts in order to make as much money as they might have been able to previously. But Ovidie and her interviewees miss two crucial points: 1) the bodies of women and girls are still being commodified and thereby dehumanized, and 2) under a system which celebrates and depends upon the commodification of the sexualized female form and of the normalized violence done unto her, the consequences they identify as grotesque, shocking, and symptomatic of a "Wild West" were bound to happen all along--and it's likely bound to only get worse.
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