International/UT Competition: Midnight 1

PARIS CHIC

• Alamo Drafthouse Downtown, Friday 12:00AM

SLOW START

THE NETHERLANDS 7:00 VIDEO
DIR Marc Schmidt
Arresting high-speed videography and eroticized motor scooters push the mettle of boys, girls, and their hair gel, racing to a fast stop. -- Spencer Parsons

COPPER FUSION

THE NETHERLANDS 9:30 VIDEO
DIR A.P. Komen, Karen Murphy
A remake of couples’ porn maestro Andrew Blake's "Paris Chic" pitched to those for whom the very thought of redheads in summer dresses will inspire sweaty palms (guilty as charged). Come back to my apartment studio? Mais oui. -- Spencer Parsons

REGARD DE PIERRE

FRANCE 6:15 VIDEO
DIR Pierre-Yves Cruaud
Webster's: "Eroticize: to make something erotic, especially by giving a sexual quality to something not usually regarded in that way." Shakespeare: "There are more things 'twixt Heaven and Earth than are dreamt of in your philosophy." What happens in the sculpture garden that we don't even notice. Oh, that this too, too solid flesh would melt! -- David Barker

CURES FOR LOVE

USA 18:32 16mm
DIR/WR Marynell Maloney PROD Ken Ashe ED David Chmura, Marynell Maloney CINE William Morgan CAST James W. Johnson, Jolie Rocket, Stephanie Imhoff
Lust, its fulfillment and suppression, as well as its classical proportions are considered in this anatomy lesson from Ovid.

ZENTRALE (2.VERSION)

AUSTRIA 9:00 16mm
DIR Dietmar Brehm
Vintage bondage footage reprinted with variables in soft focus. Brehm obscures the flesh of the subjects and at the same time preserves their specificity of their actions, a challenge to erotic reflexes. -- Jason Cortlund

VENUS

BRAZIL 21:00 16mm
DIR Cassio Tolpolar
Jo is depressed. Martha wants to help. Martha brings Jo over to Fred's place for one of his "sessions." Fred's sessions can cheer up anyone who's lost hope. This Brazilian skin-a-max-style narrative delivers the goods that Eyes Wide Shut promised. Inspired by the Velvet Underground's "Venus in Furs." Guilty pleasure indeed. -- Jason Cortlund

URANISCO DISCO

GREECE 14:00 35mm
DIR George Lanthimos
Dennis Tomazanos is a producer-director who makes films that belong to the soft-porn-musical genre, with the help of his loyal assistant Harry and his girlfriend, and star of his films Milena. One night, in their attempt to tackle yet another film genre, that of cinema verite, Pericles, the pizza delivery boy, becomes the star of their film. -- Athina Rachel Tsangari

FLUFF

USA 2:00 VIDEO
DIR Todd Verow
It's hardly Halloween, but these boys dressed down for tricks and treats make like a couple of razors in a caramel apple to the rancid candy-corn backbeat of some serious boo in this performance stolen by a hidden camera. -- Spencer Parsons

STUFFED

USA 3:33 16mm
DIR Nicky Stoyanov
Fluffy bunny seeks fuzzy bear for fun, friendship, and...???