#1 17-02-11 01:06:15

viva

pretty pretty princess

Registered: 14-05-10

Posts: 4,113

Website

artscape, anatomy, face : Beautiful Agony

I really hope that this is able to be viewed abroad. Hopefully you all can see this documentary celebrating and exploring the Beautiful Agony project, and also the filmmaker through that project, in probably the bravest little piece of film I've ever seen.

It's only 20 minutes, and more than worth it.

Would love to hear from the people involved, who watched this documentary grow from an idea to a reality. ps. you all are so beautiful.

FACES

Select, "watch now on iView".

Last edited by viva (17-02-11 02:30:53)

xxEPxx

Member

Registered: 09-12-08

Posts: 360

Re: artscape, anatomy, face : Beautiful Agony

Success, it plays to viewers abroad like me!

Wow that was a very good watch in many different ways. Adele has the loveliest voice, very soft, almost dream-like. Which made her final experience, after all the logistical nightmares, nice to see. I loved the way she talked about her childhood/teenage love of drawing, and how it differed from her father's, and yet in a way it didn't differ at all because of how she views the human form.

Not too sure I agree with the professor-type chap likening the appeal for viewers to that of snuff movies! For me, it's the identification with my own experiences, desires, fantasies, just so many things on so many levels. I can often totally identify with a female orgasm from a physical viewpoint, the actual things that happen to the body as it climaxes are not totally gender-specific, but then other times I just marvel at a beautiful contribution which taps into various real or imagined desires floating around in my sexual memory bank.

So I suppose I agree more with the idea put forward by BA contibutors and people like Adele that it represents a moment (or moments) of recognition between human beings, through whatever medium. I don't get how watching someone have an orgasm can be anything like watching someone die, because none of us living on this earth have died, whereas nearly all of us have had an orgasm. It's not vicarious because orgasm is a readily-achievable state for living humans.

Anyway, thanks for the heads-up on this lovely little film.

xxEPxX

viva

pretty pretty princess

Registered: 14-05-10

Posts: 4,113

Website

Re: artscape, anatomy, face : Beautiful Agony

EP, are you in the states? I tried to send this to my peeps over there and they said they cannot see it, any ideas for what to tell them?

The snuff metaphor pushed the line a little bit for me as well, but was interesting in that reaching, poetic way. The thing about orgasm is, though don't really need to be compared to anything. They are a benchmark themselves. Either way. I think that he was saying that orgasm is the closest we come to annihilation before, well, annihilation.

One of the things which struck me about the film was Adele's journey to finally showing the world her orgasm. Though I had big, disapproving opinions on Beautiful Agony before I came here, they were uninformed and not very well thought out. By the time I got to Feck I didn't think twice before jumping in bed with the camera - I was downright eager.

It's only now, as I play with the project of the orgasm diary, that I start to understand some of Adele's feelings and challenges. But that is another thread which I will be broaching another time.
v

xxEPxx

Member

Registered: 09-12-08

Posts: 360

Re: artscape, anatomy, face : Beautiful Agony

EP, are you in the states? I tried to send this to my peeps over there and they said they cannot see it, any ideas for what to tell them?

No, I'm UK-based. I wasn't expecting it to work to be honest, because these pan-global iPlayer/viewer thingamabubs rarely do!

The snuff metaphor pushed the line a little bit for me as well, but was interesting in that reaching, poetic way. The thing about orgasm is, though don't really need to be compared to anything. They are a benchmark themselves. Either way. I think that he was saying that orgasm is the closest we come to annihilation before, well, annihilation.

Yeah, I was right with him at that point; that made total sense. But the snuff analogy lost me somewhat. I get what he is trying to say, but - unless it is different for others who watch BA and IFM, which is obviously possible - I don't get any sense of that in my own relationship with the videos, and how they trigger various little recognitions and desires in my psyche. The most vicarious thing about them, the most forbidden thing, would be actually having the chance to watch beautiful, often naked females doing the things I have always most wanted to see in my fantasies as a young adult. At first, anyway. Now my dynamic with the whole IFM world is quite different!

One of the things which struck me about the film was Adele's journey to finally showing the world her orgasm. Though I had big, disapproving opinions on Beautiful Agony before I came here, they were uninformed and not very well thought out. By the time I got to Feck I didn't think twice before jumping in bed with the camera - I was downright eager.

And wasn't it such a wonderful orgasm that she filmed? Somehow I wonder if the people less immediately inclined to share this part of themselves - the least exhibitionist of us, maybe - are the ones who can reveal the inherent beauty of the experience.

xxEPxx