Wednesday, March 17, 2010
9:30 p.m., $10 (tickets)
Brattle Theatre
40 Brattle Street, Cambridge, MA

CineMental presents
Graphic Sexual Horror (Anna Lorentzon and Barbara Bell, 2009)

Insex.com, the brainchild of ex-Carnegie Mellon professor and artist, Brent Scott, began broadcasting torture imagery in 1997, long before the recent upsurge in mainstream depictions of so-called “torture-porn.” In 2005, as the Bush administration increased its own market share in real torture, the government used the Patriot Act to block Insex.com’s ability to process credit cards, thus forcing Insex to close its doors. Graphic Sexual Horror chronicles the rise and fall of this subculture phenomenon, wowing crowds at Slamdance, Hot Docs, and Fantasia International Film Festival in 2009. The documentary becomes an inquiry into consent and government intervention, asking hard questions about the role of money and personal responsibility.

There will be a Q&A with Model 914 following the screening.

This event is co-presented by Truth Serum with the Boston Underground Film Festival.