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Sex Cinema is a comprehensive course consisting of screenings and discussions, and focusing on the aesthetics of sexuality in film.

Proposing new inquiries toward sexuality in cinema: a treatment of eroticism as an opposition to the binary power structure and as a springboard for conversation about memory, desire, and the fine line between pornography and art.

Line up:

  1) STANLEY KUBRICK - A CLOCKWORK ORANGE (1971)

  2)  WAKEFIELD POOLE - BOYS IN THE SAND (1971)

  2) GERARD DAMIANO - DEEP THROAT (1972)

  3) JOHN WATERS - PINK FLAMINGOS (1972)

  4) CHANTAL AKERMAN - Jeanne Dielman, 23 Commerce Quay, 1080 Brussels (1975)

  5) NAGISA OSHIMA - IN THE REALM OF THE SENSES (1976)
  6) PIER PAOLO PASOLINI - SALO (1977) 

  7) GREGG ARAKI - THE DOOM GENERATION (1995)

  8) PHILIPPE GRANDRIEUX - SOMBRE (1998)
  9) CATHERINE BREILLAT - FAT GIRL
(2001)

10) PHILIPPE GRANDRIEUX -  A NEW LIFE (2002)

11) CLAUDIO ASSIS - MANGO YELLOW (2002)

12) GASPAR NOE - ENTER THE VOID (2009)

13) LARS VON TRIER - ANTICHRIST (2009)

14) GREGG ARAKI - KABOOM (2010)

15) ABSWLLATIF KEDICHE - BLUE IS THE WARMEST COLOR (2013)

16) KIRKY DICK - THIS FILM IS NOT YET RATED (2006)

Recommended Texts:

- Williams, Linda. Hardcore - Power, Pleasure and the 'Frenzy of the Visible.' University of California Press.1999.

- Williams, Linda. Screening Sex. Duke University Press, 2008.

- (literature) INFERNO (Eileen Myles) / Pussy, King of the Pirates (Kathy Acker).

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