My Friend the Porn Star
Playing with the blurred lines between reality and artifice, this documentary begins as a depiction of the making of a porn film and evolves into an exploration of the spectrum of eroticism and gender diversity.
Rosa Friedrich toys with the blurry line between real and artificial, combining fiction and obscured “reality” in her docufiction piece My Friend the Porn Star. The film follows Friedrich’s friend Timo on his journey to become a porn star and filmmaker. When Timo suddenly abandons the project just before its completion, Friedrich takes matters into her own hands, anonymising Timo using AI and gathering a colourful crowd to share their relationship with the erotic with her ever watching camera.
Mentions of pornography are bound to raise some disapproving eyebrows, but the film itself presents a sympathetic examination of the paradoxical desire that has plagued mankind for all eternity: the simultaneous need to be hidden and to be watched (or seen?). What do we show even when we try to hide it? What will remain hidden no matter how hard we try to show it? And which parts of it all are real and which mere performance? As we are made real through others’ perception of us, the film urges the viewer to consider the power they wield through their gaze.
Anna Jolma (translated by Adrian Murtomäki)
Screenings
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Kino ReginaFri 18.9. at 17.15–18.4994 min, 1/4
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Kino TöölöSat 19.9. at 15.00–16.3494 min, 2/4
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Cinema OrionFri 25.9. at 20.45–22.1994 min, 3/4
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Kino ReginaSun 27.9. at 18.00–19.3494 min, 4/4