SUFF2010 - LIFE & DEATH OF A PORNO GANG
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Sat 11 Sep 8:00PM<br><b>Price</b><br>FULL $14 + bf / CONC $12 + bf<br><b>Bookings</b><br>(02) 9550 3666<br><b>Tickets</b><br>On sale now Factory Theatre
Life and Death of a Porno Gang | Mladen Djordjevic | Serbia | 90’00”
It’s 2001 during the final days of Milosevic’ government. Film student Marko dreams of creating socially relevant science fiction horror movies, but can’t get producers interested in financing him. Looking for investors he stumbles into the sordid world of the mob-owned Serbian porn industry and soon lands a job as an adult film director. But when he squanders some of his producer’s money on a socially relevant science fiction horror porn movie, Marko needs to leave Belgrade in a hurry.
Unperturbed, Marko and his girlfriend buy a van and rustle up a few available porn actors. Some are overweight, some are suffering from AIDS, and some are addicted to heroin, but beggars can’t be choosers. As ‘Porno Gang’ they start touring the backward peasant villages in Serbia with a live cabaret, pretentiously trying to educate the farmers on political issues using radical pornographic satirical sketches.
Surprisingly this plan is not as financially successful as imagined: the poor population has little money (and even less patience) to spend on this ‘art’ so the few smiles they gather are often accompanied by a pitchfork-wielding lynchmob to drive the ‘Porno Gang’ out of town the next day.
Unable to return to Belgrade, things look increasingly desperate for the group who barely earn enough money to buy food. But then Marko meets a German producer of snuff movies, who makes him an offer he can’t refuse… (Twitch)
Playing at Film Festivals all over the world – see the Australian Premiere at SUFF
