by Margherita Fontana
Guilty Pleasures is a space free of boundaries and prejudices that Concorto dedicates to sexuality, understood as a political territory of self-expression and encounter with the other. The selection, which includes works from different genres, seeks to reflect this complexity. In fact, sexuality is already narrated before it is made. Hence the centrality of stories and narrative voices, be they authentic testimonies that weave the plot of the documentary or minds that speak out loud. These multiple narratives, which make up the mosaic of Guilty Pleasures, act as a perturbing device on everyday life, revealing its hidden plots without renouncing the disorientating technique par excellence: irony. We hope that the selected short stories will be able to tell us about sex as a lived experience, as a relationship with one’s own and other people’s corporeality, as a way of expressing thoughts and feelings, in an unconventional way, far from stereotypes.
Films featured:
Blank Narcissus (Passion of the Swamp), Peter Strickland, UK and Australia, 2022
Daniel, Claire van Beek, New Zealand, 2019
Furrie, Lucie Grannec, France, 2022
Mamífera (Mammal), Valeria Alonso, Spain, 2023
Os animais mais fofos e engraçados do mundo (The Cutest and Funniest Animals in the World), Renato Sircilli, Brazil, 2023
Ur Heinous Habit, Eugene Kolb, USA, 2023