Sunday, September 28, 2014

VOICEOVER: DIRECTOR NAGISA OSHIMA ON OBSCENITY


"The concept of "obscenity" is tested when we dare to look at something that we desire to see but have forbidden ourselves to look at.  When we feel that everything has been revealed,  "obscenity" disappears and there is a certain liberation.  When that which one had wanted to see isn't sufficiently revealed,  however,  the taboo remains,  the feeling of "obscenity stays,  and an even greater "obscenity" comes into being."  

from THEORY OF EXPERIMENTAL PORNOGRAPHIC FILM (1976)

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