Premium Pornography
2022 · 10m · Canada
Directed by Simon Ruscinski
Genres: comedy, coming-of-age, experimental
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic, provocative
A 16-year-old Catholic schoolboy, suspended for masturbation, sets out to film a video apology but spirals into a deadpan research project on animal sexuality and alien life. Multimedia detours collide with the most awkward confession tape ever attempted.
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The scouts
A horny Catholic kid's apology video keeps interrupting itself with barnacle facts. No really, WATCH this — the detours ARE the point.
Catholic-school sexuality through the lens of nature documentary — Simon Ruscinski's formal conceit is genuinely clever, and the genre-collision is doing actual work.
A teen's punishment apology video keeps detouring into PowerPoint essays on barnacle mating habits and extraterrestrial life — that multimedia-presentation structure as the entire film is a genuinely fresh container for the awkward-confession sub-genre.
Reviews
Unapologetically juvenile on the topics of sex and pornography, but surprisingly poetic.