Image courtesy of Comstock Films
Readers of this blog will know that I've been a fan of Tony Comstock's particular brand of filmmaking for a long time. You might also know that I am keen on exploring ideas around sexuality and expressions of sexuality in society. To that end I have particularly enjoyed reading Tony's "The Intent To Arouse" blog where he's been digging a little history, telling some stories and recounting some of the challenges and battles (a couple fought here in Australia) he and his wife Peggy have faced in the quest to make films with real people, real life and real sex.
Tony's observations on "Sex, Shame, and the Moving Image" are on one hand broad and intelligent and on the other, detailed, insightful and very personal - all are fascinating. I'm not sure if anyone has ever told this story and certainly not from this perspective. If you haven't already, go visit the blog, or if you are in New York go along and hear Tony speak as a special guest presenter at the Tisch School of the Arts this coming Wednesday. Details are below.
Readers of this blog will know that I've been a fan of Tony Comstock's particular brand of filmmaking for a long time. You might also know that I am keen on exploring ideas around sexuality and expressions of sexuality in society. To that end I have particularly enjoyed reading Tony's "The Intent To Arouse" blog where he's been digging a little history, telling some stories and recounting some of the challenges and battles (a couple fought here in Australia) he and his wife Peggy have faced in the quest to make films with real people, real life and real sex.
Tony's observations on "Sex, Shame, and the Moving Image" are on one hand broad and intelligent and on the other, detailed, insightful and very personal - all are fascinating. I'm not sure if anyone has ever told this story and certainly not from this perspective. If you haven't already, go visit the blog, or if you are in New York go along and hear Tony speak as a special guest presenter at the Tisch School of the Arts this coming Wednesday. Details are below.
Tony Comstock - The Intent to Arouse: A Concise History of Sex, Shame, and the Moving Image
Event Date and Time: Wednesday, September 23,2009, at 6:15pm
Location: Department of Cinema Studies, Michelson Theatre
Tisch School of the Arts
721 Broadway, Room 648
Guest Speaker
Tony Comstock – “The Intent to Arouse: A Concise History of Sex, Shame, and the Moving Image”
In a world that seems awash in sexualized imagery, why is it that so little of this imagery speaks to the common pleasurable reality of sex? Award-winning filmmaker Tony Comstock (Real People, Real Life, Real Sex erotic documentary series) takes us into the legal and business realities that shape and too often warp the sexual imagery we see.
Drawing on examples from Hollywood's history of self-censorship, landmark obscenity cases, and the collision of technology and image-making, Comstock offers an expanded framework for understanding how what we do and do not see in cinema effects our understanding of our own sexuality.
Drawing on examples from Hollywood's history of self-censorship, landmark obscenity cases, and the collision of technology and image-making, Comstock offers an expanded framework for understanding how what we do and do not see in cinema effects our understanding of our own sexuality.
This event is free and open to the public.
Refreshments are provided at all Wednesday Night Series events.
For more information -
Jeff Richardson
Phone: 212-998-1649
jeff.richardson@nyu.edu
Or visit for details and transport information - Tisch and for the whole program go here.
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