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    Mutantes

    Virginie DESPENTES 2009 France Documentary color 90min French Digi Beta
    Mutantes is a documentary on pro-sex feminism by Virginie DESPENTES, originally conceived as an audiovisual complement to her book King Kong Theory.

    It is made up of about 20 interviews filmed in the United States, France and Spain, giving the floor to pro-sex activists and follows the evolution of the movement from the 1980s to the present. It allows us to see that activists are already inventing other ways of having sex and of thinking of sexuality and gender.

    Unlike the abolitionist feminist movement, the pro-sex feminist movement, which began in the United States during the 1980s, asserts that representations of the body and of pleasure are areas that must be taken over by women and sexual minorities and that pornography must not be subject to control by the patriarchal state. It also calls for the legalisation of sex work; female sex workers, porn actresses, strip teasers and lesbians have begun to speak out and to talk about themselves, generating a new culture that includes articles, books, films, documentaries, music, comics, artistic performances, etc. Whether it’s referred to as Pro Sex, Post Porn or queer, the movement calls on us to reflect on what the whole point of feminism is.

    Director

    Virginie DESPENTES

    Virginie DESPENTES published Rape me in 1993 and turned it into a film seven years later, co-directed with Coralie Trinh THI and released in cinemas. She received the “Prix de Flore,” a French award given to young promising authors in 1998 for her third novel entitled Pretty Things. She translates Poppy Z. Brite, Dee Dee Ramone, and Lydia Lunch and occasionally works as a journalist for French music and culture magazines Rock’n’Folk and Technikart. Mutantes is her first documentary film. She is currently filming a cinematic version of her fifth novel, Bye Bye Blondie, featuring Béatrice Dalle, Emmanuelle Béart and Pascal Greggory.

    Virginie DESPENTES

    1993 Rape me

    2009 性快感無限 Mutantes

    Director／Virginie DESPENTES

    Producer／Catherine ROUAULT

    Cinematographer／Valerie Bardin Jerôme RAGEYS

    Editor／Veronique ROSA

    Sound／Jerôme AGHION

    Music／Varou JAN

    Morgane, Pink TV

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