Nine minutes, two bodies, one conversation — how intimate can a film get?
An experimental short featuring a couple conversing and making love.
Direction
Huckert strips cinema to its barest essentials.
Cinematography
Uncompromising close-ups that refuse to look away.
Director
John Huckert
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released in 1979, this emerged from the same underground experimental scene that produced Warhol's Couch and early Jarman — when 'pornography' and 'art' were being violently negotiated.
Director John Huckert virtually disappeared from cinema after this; some prints were seized by customs in multiple countries, ensuring its semi-mythic status among archivists.
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