Porn Without Sex: "Motions To Satisfy"
2021 · 4m
Directed by Laura Moss
Genres: dark comedy, experimental
Tones: absurdist, humorous, provocative
A short vignette styled as a 1991 artifact: Mr. Wad has a problem 'down there' and his new doctor examines. Not quite pornographic. Not quite not.
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Laura Moss — who went on to direct Birth/Rebirth — made a 4-minute fake-1991 doctor's-office not-quite-porno. Yes I said what I said.
Four minutes of medical-exam-styled-as-1991-softcore — the second installment doubles down on the uncanny-valley conceit and at this length it's a clean conceptual provocation rather than an extended bit.
Four-minute companion piece in the not-quite-pornographic 1991-pastiche series. Laura Moss's restraint and the deliberate ambiguity are doing all the work; without seeing it I'd trust the conceptual rigor over the broad sketch logline.