DIYSEX

DIYSEX
Juno Álvarez, Yaiza de Lamo, Mar Nantas and Mariona Vázquez.

Why do we desire what we desire, why do we desire what we desire, why do sexual fantasies have no limits, and what about porn, is it the translation of these fantasies?

DIYSEX is a film that reflects on the use of image and language in mainstream and alternative pornography. In this film, a girl sets out to make her own porn film. She realises that in the pornography we are used to seeing, the same items are constantly reproduced: objectification of women's bodies, fetishism of differences, use of racist language and the chain reproduction of identical sexual scenes that are only intended for heterosexual male desire.

Throughout this journey, the protagonist will contact people who work in the porn industry to find out if there is a way to make a porn film that is as far away as possible from the uses of the image of what we call mainstream pornography. This film travels through the different steps involved in making a porn film. From the writing of the script through the shooting to its distribution, always focusing on the reflections and thoughts of the protagonist, to the point of asking herself if it makes sense to review and move away from the normative uses of the erotic and pornographic image.

The film also explores other issues such as the labour problems of performers caused by the stigmatisation of sex work which, as the protagonist will discover, strongly affects the daily lives of sex workers.

Directed by: Juno Álvarez, Yaiza de Lamo, Mar Nantas and Mariona Vázquez.
Director of Photography: Yaiza de Lamo
Script: Maria Lorente
Production Direction: Mariona Vázquez
Sound Design: Juno Álvarez
Live Sound: Juno Álvarez and Mariona Vázquez
Editing: Juno Álvarez
Animation: Yaiza de Lamo
Archive: Mariona Vázquez
Country: Spain
Production company: UAB - Master in Theory and Practice of Creative Documentary Filmmaking
Production year: 2019
Genre: Documentary
Language: Spanish
Length: 25 minutes
Awards: Best Documentary Short Film at the International Film Festival of Social Criticism, Protesta 2021 (Barcelona); ARTSANS Award for Best Editing at the International Film Festival of Cerdanya 2020.