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Forged Obscenities

2018 · 30 min

A slow, ritualistic art piece that lingers on bodies and materials until the base becomes something luminous and strange.

Directed by
Vex Ashley
Genres
Romance
Starring
Vex Ashley, Bishop Black, Cilt
Overview
The process of turning base material into gold, the philosophers stone. A metaphor for the way certain acts and bodily materials are treated as obscene and base and how powerfully transcendent they can be transforming them into elixir, into gold, something precious.

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Directed by
Vex Ashley
Genres
Romance
Starring
Vex Ashley, Bishop Black, Cilt
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Tone
  • eeriestrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 1 of 3
  • romanticstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • identity
  • art
  • obsession
  • sexuality
  • morality
Places
None
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • single location
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex strong
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Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror1
Humour1
Realism4
Romance6
Tension3
Darkness5
Complexity7
Emotional weight6

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Genres
romance
Directed by
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Written by
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Starring
Vex Ashley, Bishop Black, Cilt, Mickey Mod, Lina Bembe
Runtime
30 min

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