IXFF Spotlight: Narcissister
By Kuono • Sep 16th, 2009 • Category: Blog, Film FestWe caught up with a couple of finalists for the Good Vibrations Indie Erotic Film Fest, and asked them about their films that will be premiered at the competition screening at the Castro Theatre on September 17th (for more details and tickets, visit gv-ixff.org). Here’s our GV Magazine IXFF Filmmaker interview with Narcissister, director of Narcissister’s Hot Lunch!
Narcissister’s Hot Lunch. Photo: Tony Stamolis
Narcissister
What was the inspiration for your film?
I do a great deal of visual research at the Picture Collection in the Public Library in Mid-Manhattan. During one session, I found a 70’s era photo montage in the Erotic folder of photograph of a naked woman collaged into a photograph of a hot dog bun. The artist had also squirted red and yellow paint onto the image. The image struck me in diverse ways–the eroticism, the gross-ness, the rough technique, the offensiveness.At this time I had also been looking at the paintings of Mel Ramos and was also interested in his concept of presenting women as consumable objects so blatantly. I am also interested in the theories behind Margaret Atwood’s “The Edible Woman,” although I am only vaguely acquainted with them.
Finally, I really love that song “Hot Lunch” from the Fame soundtrack. I heard it when I was out dancing one night and was emboldened to finally make this piece I had been thinking about.
What did you hope to accomplish with it?
A new depiction of the concepts described above but from a woman’s perspective. As with all my Narcissister projects, my goal is to create accessible, entertaining work that has strong aesthetics and is layered with deep meaning and resonance, especially for women.What makes your film erotic?
The physicality, the subject matter, the forms, the fluids, the oddness of it.Why do you think a festival like this is important?
Eroticism is empowering! Any opportunity to “lift the veil” of shame and secrecy and to broaden the common definition of what is erotic is essential.
Thank you and best of luck to Narcissister , who’s film will be premiere at the Good Vibrations Indie Erotic Film Fest competition screening at the Castro Theatre on September 17th (for more details and tickets, visit gv-ixff.org). More about Narcissister can be found at narcissister.com.
Kuono >> Magazine Editor, Web Producer at GoodVibes.com and manager of the Good Vibrations Affiliate Program (GVAffiliates.com). Okay, back to work.
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