A curiously open portrait of Leonie Saint, a nineteen-year-old porn-starlet from the Ruhr Valley in Germany. Debus’s film is an exploration of ‘the performance of reality’, her camera tracing its protagonist’s ‘erotic self-portrayal’ and soft-spoken, matter of fact voice-over which curator Marcel Schwierin describes as ‘reflecting an existence between intimate-presence in the mass-media and private vulnerability’.
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To Live Outside the Law You Must Be Honest
This video was filmed in Christiania, a free haven in the centre of Copenhagen that has continued since the early 1970s to reject the ownership… -
Hera Piadosa
There is no possible encounter, there is no sexual relationship. Darlings: it would be better for us to learn to love the screen. (Manu Uranga)
Film details
- Productieland
- Germany
- Jaar
- 2006
- Festivaleditie
- IFFR 2008
- Lengte
- 13'
- Medium/Formaat
- 16mm
