Pornoland
Stefano De Luigi

A land where sex is simulated, glorified, evoked, supercharged in the extreme, a land where everything is about the body, in its possible and perverse sexual combinations… This is Pornoland, a strange, parallel world where films are churned out on a daily basis. The photographs of Stefano Di Luigi and the text by Martin Amis that accompanies them are the guide s through this land, filled with actors capable of extraordinary performances (although not the kind that would win you an Oscars), directors who can make an entire film in just one day, improvised sets, almost non-existent plots and locations that stay exactly the same from one film to the next. The journey visits Milan, Berlin, Budapest, Prague, Tokyo, Dortmund and Los Angeles. It includes no moralizing, hasty judgments of yearnings for redemption. Stefano Di Luigi’s images and Martin Amis’s words use humor, respect and irony to tell the story of a rarely glimpsed world full of crude colors and harsh brutality, bodily contortions and bursts of laughter, unexpected tenderness and situations on the very edge of the absurd.

With 54 illustrations.