virgins: home economics



in the sunday independent 7 september 2002

Nicola’s first orgasm
Aryan Kaganof | 2003 | 5 min. | video | geen dialoog
“We cannot abstain from watching the revelation of a being that would be an object neither for herself nor for any other gaze and yet which would effect, in the mystery of her own invisibility, the condensation of all objectivity.”
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“and i was also thinking of that film “black little heart”, why it kind of offended me so much, drove me to defense mode…but i understand it more, from a distance…
that closing imagery i did actually find beautiful, but i wanted to deny it, to reject it - i just couldn’t go that far, that deep into self-hatred, it irritated me, but that final imagery gave me a look into what the heroin does for the junky, it visually captured the beautiful feeling of escape from the horror of the absence of love.”