Sexual Dependency

  • 104'
  • Bolivia
  • 2003
As an artistic experiment, director Rodrigo Bellott mounted a huge billboard advertising RIGO BoSD underwear, featuring a gorgeous young man, strategically placing it on one of the main avenues in downtown Santa Cruz, Bolivia. Within a month, the related website was receiving inquiries from clothing companies about the manufacturing rights to the line. Passed at one time or another by all the main characters in the film, the billboard comes to stand for the pressures of lifestyle, physical beauty, sex, class, race and power relations that the young characters experience in a media-dominated culture. Five characters dominate the story. A poor Bolivian teenaged girl is date-raped at her friend's lavish debut party. A young Colombian man is treated to a free throw at a whorehouse. A rich young stud is privately terrified as he spends his last evening before leaving to attend university in the United States. A tough, black woman college student and a football player who moonlights as an underwear model and is secretly gay complete the cast. With one exception, each scene is shot with two cameras so that a constant split-screen narrative shows different angles of the same event. Not in the least a gimmick, this device visually links the disparate stories and allows each to unfold from different perspectives. (Kay Armatage, Toronto Catalogue)
Director
Rodrigo Bellott
Countries of production
Bolivia, USA
Year
2003
Festival Edition
IFFR 2004
Length
104'
Medium
35mm
Original title
Dependencia Sexual
Languages
Spanish, English
Producers
BOSD Films, Ara Katz
Sales
Cinemavault Releasing International Inc
Production Design
Carlos Pardo
Website
http://www.bosdfilms.com
Director
Rodrigo Bellott
Countries of production
Bolivia, USA
Year
2003
Festival Edition
IFFR 2004
Length
104'
Medium
35mm
Original title
Dependencia Sexual
Languages
Spanish, English
Producers
BOSD Films, Ara Katz
Sales
Cinemavault Releasing International Inc
Production Design
Carlos Pardo
Website
http://www.bosdfilms.com