Destricted

Destricted is the first short film collection of its kind, bringing together sex and art in a series of films created by some of the world's most visual and provocative artists and directors. They reveal the diverse attitudes by which we represent ourselves sexually.

Destricted acts as a platform for all forms of uncensored artistic expression as it manipulates and embraces the expression of sex through art.

The Destricted brand is the first in a continuing series. The eight films presented explore the fine line where art and pornography intersect. The films highlight controversial issues about the representation of sexuality in art; opening up debate of the question whether art can be disguised as pornography or whether pornography can be represented as art or something else altogether. The result is a collection of explicit, stimulating, challenging, provocative, strange, and sometimes humorous scenarios that leave it up to the viewer to deliberate, discuss, and decide.

“Destricted is the most successful synthesis of art and pornography that I've seen. It offers a multipurpose, beautiful, and smart experience that appeals to your head and your lap in equal measure.” - Jesse Pearson, Editor in Chief, Vice Magazine

“Destricted reminds us that artists' filmmaking was always grounded in subversive sexuality, from the Surrealists to the 60s. These new films offer a creative, erotic vision for the age of webcams and internet porn.” - Stuart Comer, Curator of Film Tate Modern UK

“Fabulously, tantalizingly exciting” - Vogue

“The best sex you can have with your clothes on" - Dylan Jones, GQ

“Touching and funny… simply genius” - The Times [London]

“Impaled is genius...if there is a better, purer or more tragic representation of the ineffable conflation of physical and emotional impulses at the heart of the sexual conundrum, it has yet to be filmed” - Art Review

“Some of the sexiest moments in recent cinema.” - Chrissie Iles, Whitney Museum of Art, NY