Three Home Movies and a Porn Flick

Luis Cerveró
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In this piece, comprising four short video performances recorded in a domestic setting, Cerveró, fond of home video and alternative formats, pays tribute to the home videos that we all film in our private lives. In this case, the piece falls within the subgenre of “pet films”. Two charming cats, male and female, are the main characters of this story, a tender and humorous parody of the gravity of the great issues traditionally portrayed in cinema, such as the indivdual’s existential anguish, the unfruitful pursuit of goals, or the necessity for affection and sex. The video is made of simple and charming scenes.

On a formal level, all artifice and effectism is dispensed with. It is the camera which very naturally attracts the animals’ improvisations in their unconscious actions, which, on occasions, look as if they had been rehearsed, again opening up problematic tensions between fiction and reality.

The tone of the pieces, which are saturated in purity, refers us back to the idea of play and a return to childhood as an unrecoverable wild paradise.

Cerveró, admittedly nostalgic for his childhood, for the neverending play, fond of recycling but at the same time of novelty, works in order to “find” in the process. His pieces unravel nonstop in our minds, and at the same time, always contain transgressive elements and a critique of social conventions.

Cerveró is one of the Spanish video artists to have achieved major international presence. His work comes in the form of advertising posters, video art, documentaries, video clips and experimental cinema.

All of his pieces, independently of their final format, share the same search for an anti-form and an anti-style, which has become his signature feature. All his work exudes a preoccupation for reconciliating reality and fiction, creation and everyday life. Within his latest works, the acclaimed new title sequence (since 2006) for the cultural programme Metrópolis in TVE2, stands out.

Technical datasheet

  • Title: Three Home Movies and a Porn Flick
  • Direction: Luis Cerveró
  • Production: Luis Cerveró. 2003.
  • Duration: 00:05:40
  • Languages: English
  • Original format: Mini DV
  • Formats: Betacam Digital - DVD
  • TV systems: PAL
  • License: Copyright