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] tell me the thing you have not said / and I will build a room / around it [
The premise is a mechanism: people submit anonymous fantasies, and some are made into short films. That gives the catalogue an unusual shape — it is not organised by act or performer but by idea, and the ideas came from outside the studio.
The films are shot like films. Production design, scores, actual directors with actual sensibilities. Some are excellent. Some mistake atmosphere for tension and end without having happened. The variance is high, and the site does not hide it.
This is the most explicitly authored work reviewed here. You are not browsing a catalogue; you are watching one person's project, with everything that implies about consistency of taste.
The catalogue is small and the price is not low. What you are buying is the possibility that a short film about desire will be genuinely good, which is rarer than the volume of pornography online would suggest.
Closer to a film festival than a tube. Judge it as one.
- For
- Anyone who wants the thing to be made, not just recorded.
- Not for
- Readers who measure value by hours of footage.