NYX-POST-PORN [EXPANDED BODY]
Synopsis "NYX-POST-PORN" is an audiovisual work that investigates the relationship between body, camera and aesthetics in the context of post-porn. The film deconstructs the objectification of the female body and proposes a new sensory and ethical approach to visual pleasure. Capturing fragments of the body in performance, the project questions the boundaries of the gaze and offers an immersive experience of self-knowledge and bodily expansion, proposing a new paradigm of spectatorship in contemporary cinema.
Central Concept "NYX-POST-PORN" is a work that aims to dismantle the conventional narratives of traditional pornography, inserting itself in the field of post-porn. Laura Mulvey, in her text "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema", approaches traditional visual pleasure as a patriarchal construction that objectifies women for the male gaze, highlighting scopophilia as a central mechanism of this process. The NYX project seeks to subvert this structure, proposing a new paradigm of visual pleasure based on the deconstruction of the objectified body and the creation of an immersive sensory experience, where the viewer is challenged to participate in a new ethical relationship with the filmed body. The camera, instead of dominating the body, creates an intimate relationship with the performer, promoting an organic and collaborative dialogue between body and image.
About the Name
The name "NYX" refers to the Greek goddess of the night, a primordial deity representing mystery and the feminine in its most powerful form. "POST-PORN" places the work in the context of post-porn, an artistic and political movement that seeks to rethink the representation of sexuality.
Creative Process The creative process of "NYX-POST-PORN" is guided by the exploration of the expanded body and the collective dynamic between the performer and the team. The work proposes a corporeal performance that involves female masturbation as a poetic act of self-discovery and empowerment. The interaction between body and camera is fluid, naturalizing the performative act and deconstructing the taboo of female sexuality. The stages of the creative process range from the energetic activation of the team, through the preparation of the scenario with lights and sensory elements, to the capture of the fragmented performance and the subsequent account of the experience lived by the collective body. This collaborative process is essential for creating an immersive and collective experience, where each team member actively participates in the aesthetic and emotional construction of the work.
Visual Style and Tone Soft and diffused lighting, creating an ethereal and sensory atmosphere. Fluid and organic camera movement, creating a sense of intimacy and expansion. Natural body sounds, amplified breathing, composed soundtrack in official version and ambient sound, reflections in multicam version.
Performance Stages
The performance is structured in six distinct moments that guide the sensory experience and fragmented capture of the body in movement, creating a non-linear narrative of pleasure and self-discovery: The Body as Landscape, Touch and Breath, Breath and Tension, Fragmentation of the Act, Fragmented Climax and Post-Climax.
Filmmakers
Flávia Massali [Performer] Multidisciplinary artist in training at UNESPAR. Works at the intersections of dance, poetry, theater and performance. Researches the body as territory of expression and resistance, exploring hybrid and experimental languages. Develops works investigating scenic presence and expanded corporality.
Castro Pizzano [Idealization, Dir. of Photo, Editing and Post-Prod.] Master's student at PPG-CINEAV, Unespar. Member of CineCriare Research Group. Founder, designer, art director and videomaker at CasaTreze Studio. [LATTES]
Patrícia Ressureição [Corporal Dir. and Collective Dir.] Master's student at PPG-CINEAV, Unespar. Member of CineCriare. Professional actress, presenter, model, filmmaker, photographer and cultural producer. CAPES/DS scholar. [LATTES]
Murilo Castro [Production, Still and Making Of] Master's student at PPG-CINEAV, Unespar. Member of Eikos. Assistant Editor at RECOCINE. SOCINE member. Writer, Director and Editor. [LATTES]
Ana Pupo [Art Dir., Makeup and Production] Master's student at PPG-CINEAV, Unespar. Member of CineCriare. Postgraduate in Cultural Anthropology. Visual Arts graduate from Embap. [LATTES]
References | State of the Art
Mulvey, Laura Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema PDF The critique of patriarchal scopophilia and objectification of the female body in traditional narrative cinema practices. NYX redefines the cinematic gaze proposing ethical visual pleasure born from the expanded and autonomous body in performance practice.
Comolli, Jean-Louis See and Power PDF The problematization of image power and the use of cinema as critical tool for social and political analysis in contemporary society. The film summons both filmed body and spectator into the same field of ethical aesthetic and perceptive friction in constant dialogue.
Vinhosa, Luciano Videoperformance: Body in Transit PDF Video as extension of bodily performance and device for capturing the body in creative and transformative processes of expression. NYX assumes the videoperformative gesture as artistic and political method of cultural resistance proposing new forms of presence.
Azevedo, Adriana Savage Sexorcisms: Post-Pornography PDF Post-porn as a tool for deconstructing technologies of subjective production desire control and body normalization processes. NYX proposes new modes of existence through bodily performance and the expanded image in practices of freedom and autonomy creation.
Abramović, Marina Balkan Erotic Epic (Destricted) IMDb The female body as ritualistic space of resistance and deconstruction of patriarchal eroticization of gestures and performances. NYX dialogues by treating the body as performative ritual that deconstructs objectification creating new spaces of bodily autonomy.
Barney, Matthew Hoist (Destricted) IMDb Bodily fragmentation and fusion between organic and mechanical in contemporary audiovisual performance exploring body limits. NYX incorporates technological hybridization dissolving boundaries between body and capture device in sensory expansion processes.
MUSIC
Breeze by Dan Guinski "Non-Grata"
TRAILER
Duration: 00'25'' | Digital | Color | Stereo Sound | 2024 | Brazil
OFFICIAL CUT > Go to INTERNET ARCHIVE < Duration: 13'14'' | Digital | Color | Stereo Sound | 2024 | Brazil MULTICAM > Go to INTERNET ARCHIVE < Duration: 14'51'' | Digital | Color | Stereo Sound | 2024 | Brazil
> Link to INTERNET ARCHIVE < https://archive.org/details/nyx-post-porn-2024
Technical Credits
Performance Flávia Massali Idealization Castro Pizzano Collective Dir. Castro Pizzano Patrícia Ressureição Murilo Castro Ana Pupo Dir. of Photography Castro Pizzano Art Dir. Ana Pupo Corporal Dir. Patrícia Ressureição Graphic Design Castro Pizzano Editing Castro Pizzano Post-Production Castro Pizzano Music Dan Guinski "Non-Grata" Sound Production Dan Guinski "Non-Grata" Makeup Ana Pupo Patricia Ressureição Production Ana Pupo Murilo Castro Patricia Ressureição Still / Making Of Murilo Castro Support Gi Fiatcoski Lucas Lage Andrey H. Percegona Production CasaTrezeStudio®
Program
PPG-CINEAV Graduate Prog. in Cinema and Video Arts UNESPAR State University of Paraná Faculty of Arts of Paraná (FAP) CineCriare Research Group Body and Movement Project Support Profa. Dra. Cristiane Wosniak Prof. Dr. Fábio Noronha
Documentation
[MAIN DOC.] [01] README.MD// Manifesto and project structure [02] LICENSE.MD// CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 License [03] CITATION.CFF// GitHub automated citation [04] METHODOLOGY.MD// Research methods and procedures [05] PHILOSOPHY.MD// Rationale for conceptual choices [06] COPYRIGHT.MD// Ethics and transparency of co-creation
[PROJECT] [01] CONCEITO.PDF// Project conceptual document [02] ESTUDO-PT.PDF// Academic study in portuguese [03] STUDY-EN.PDF// Academic study in english
[CERTIFICATIONS] [01] CONSENTIMENTO.PDF// Performer consent letter [02] FACC-EXIBICAO.PDF// FACC exhibition certificate [03] CINECRIARE-CERTIFICADO.PDF// Official CineCriare
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