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From Park City, Utah, this is where the Sundance Film Festival is taking place. Among the many exhibits: “‘Zoo\u2019 is a documentary about what director Robinson Devor accurately characterizes as ‘the last taboo, on the boundary of something comprehensible.\u2019 But remarkably, an elegant, eerily lyrical film has resulted.” This is in the LA Times<\/a>, by the way. “‘Zoo,\u2019 premiering before a rapt audience Saturday night at Sundance, manages to be a poetic film about a forbidden subject, a perfect marriage between a cool and contemplative director … and potentially incendiary subject matter: sex between men and animals. Not graphic in the least, this strange and strangely beautiful film combines audio interviews … with elegiac visual re-creations intended to conjure up the mood and spirit of situations. The director himself puts it best: ‘I aestheticized the sleaze right out of it.'” <\/line> By the way, some of these audio interviews, two of the three men who were involved did not want to appear on camera. They\u2019re just audio interviews. “Devor and his writing partner, Charles Mudede, live in Seattle and were stunned, as were many in the state, by a story that broke in 2005 about a local man who died after having sex with an Arabian stallion.” We talked about this story on the program here. In the State of Washington, it\u2019s perfectly okay to have sex with a horse as long as it can be shown the horse enjoyed it — or better put: it\u2019s perfectly okay to have sex with a horse as long as you can\u2019t prove that the horse didn\u2019t enjoy it. At any rate, “bestiality is not illegal in Washington, the subsequent revelation of the existence of an Internet-based zoophile community (the men refer to themselves as ‘zoos,\u2019 hence the title) was a shock. Though there was the inevitable tabloid fuss, what Devor called ‘the prurient spectacle,\u2019 the filmmaker was also ‘shocked that nobody did an in-depth look at this, that there was no investigative reporting rounding the story out with the psychology involved. <\/line>“‘I thought, ”This is an opportunity.”\u2019 Though ‘Zoo\u2019 is intent on allowing these men to be heard, [the director\u2019s] intention was not polemical. ‘I\u2019m not in there wrestling with the legal or animal cruelty issues,\u2019 he said. Rather, he envisioned a film like his others: ‘I count on the natural world pulling my films through.” The “natural world is a guy having sex with an Arabian stallion. “I thought the marriage of this completely strange mind-set and the beauty of the natural world could be something interesting.\u2019 In introducing ‘Zoo\u2019 at Sundance, Devor called it ‘a difficult film and a difficult film to make.'” Yeah, I wonder why? “He added: ‘A lot of people looked at me as if I was an exploitative person, dredging up something for profit, and that bothered me. I was certainly asked many times, often with a wrinkled brow, ‘Why are you making this film?\u2019 It was something I did resent; I thought artists had the opportunity to explore anything.\u2019 In the end, Devor ended up agreeing with the Roman writer Terence, who said ‘I consider nothing human alien to me.\u2019 <\/line><\/p>\n

“‘It happens,\u2019 the filmmaker said, ‘so it\u2019s part of who we are.'” This is something at Sundance that\u2019s getting raves. (interruption) Well, you joke. H.R. said in the IFB, “Wait for the musical.” What is this show in New York you were telling me about, Mr. Snerdley? What\u2019s the title of this show? Do you know the title of this show? It\u2019s a show about masturbation on stage in New York, and the actors are 17 to 19? It\u2019s about teenage sexuality. It\u2019s the rave, apparently. Is it Broadway or Off-Broadway, do you know? It\u2019s on Broadway. Okay, so at Sundance we\u2019ve got bestiality as a favored and highly recommended documentary. We\u2019ve got on-stage sex with teenagers in New York as the rave, and have you heard about the masturbation room at Atlanta\u2019s Hartsfield airport? You haven\u2019t heard about this?<\/a> You know, I\u2019ve been doing a little test. I saw this last week, and I have been waiting for news of this to spread, and it has not. The story hit in Atlanta, I think it was on Friday night, and some local in North Carolina is one of the guys involved here. Actually it hasn\u2019t hit in North Carolina. That\u2019s the point. Now, Mike Adams of Townhall.com has written a piece about this. Here are the details. <\/line>“It should come as no surprise that a men\u2019s restroom at Hartsfield Jackson international airport, Atlanta, has become a playground for those who want to masturbate in public and have sex with men they don\u2019t even know. After all, Atlanta is a hotbed of gay activity and public restrooms are favorite gathering places. But some may be surprised that since December, police officers have arrested and charged 11 men with public indecency in the Atlanta airport.” There\u2019s a huge, huge prostitution investigation going on in Atlanta. It\u2019s all over the place: Atlanta, the suburbs, and it\u2019s even gotten out into the airport now. This, technically, is not part of the prostitution investigation, but they\u2019re investigating sex and they\u2019re finding all kinds of it in public places. “Some may be surprised that since December police officers have arrested and charged 11 men with public indecency in the Atlanta airport. That\u2019s because, you might be surprised because there\u2019s been little talk about the arrests — and that in turn may have something to do with the fact that the dirty nearly dozen,” which is what these 11 are being called, the dirty nearly dozen, “includes University of North Carolina professor Dr. Hugh Tilson and Spellman College professor Lev T. Mills.<\/line>“Now, it\u2019s not surprising to find out that Lev Mills is a professor of art. Such departments attract some of the most far-out, nonconformists among us. But it is surprising that Dr. Hugh Tilson is a professor of public health at the University of North Carolina. Before his arrest I\u2019d always considered public masturbation to run contrary to the public health, but in the age of diversity, I\u2019m becoming increasingly willing to reconsider some of my basic assumptions, some of which may be based on antiquated notions of morality.” So last Thursday and Friday, it was discovered 11 men been arrested and charged with public indecency. There\u2019s a room, and they know where this room is. I don\u2019t know where it is, but there\u2019s a room in the Atlanta airport, in one of the terminals, where if you want to go have sex with men and masturbate, you know where this room is. <\/line>The word has sort of spread, and one of the guys arrested was the professor of public health at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Dr. Hugh Tilson. This guy is, apparently, from what I\u2019ve been able to understand, highly regarded: married, kids, grandkids, in his early sixties. If this guy were a Republican legislator, do you think this story would not have made the wires? There\u2019s a reason this story doesn\u2019t get around, and others like the Foley story do, ladies and gentlemen. It\u2019s a treatise on the media, the debasement. Look, in Utah we\u2019ve got a documentary on bestiality. In New York we\u2019ve got a stage show on Broadway about teenage sex. Does it include masturbation or not? Okay, does that occur on stage? Is that what you\u2019re telling me? (interruption) You gotta be kidding me? It\u2019s the last act? All right. Whoa. The front room might be a dangerous place to sit — and then in Atlanta you\u2019ve got the masturbation room at Atlanta Hartsfield International — and Robert Redford wants an apology from us?<\/line><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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