MoMA The Museum of Modern Art (Venue Partner)
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I Am Curious (Yellow)
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Monday Oct 27, 2008 (8:15pm)
Friday Oct 31, 2008 (7:30pm)
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$10
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Back in the late '60s, our avert-thy-eyes censors banned Vilgot Sjöman's I Am Curious (Yellow) for its free-love approach toward cinematic sexuality. Its improprieties were essentially a shooting script for today's softcore porn: frontal nudity, choreographed intercourse, and, most unholy, the kissing of flaccid genitalia. In this legendarily subversive (and also humorous) import, Lena Nyman (as herself) plays an eager-beaver sociologist who undertakes a hands-on sex survey. The footage isn't just la-di-da T&A though — it's most memorable for jump-cutting between fictional and vérité elements as it pores over Sweden's sexual, political, and artistic mores. As it happens, the most unexpected sequence may be Sjöman's back-and-forth on civil disobedience with Martin Luther King.
