Malcolm McLaren, one of the most famous figures of the 1970s punk rock movement is bringing sex movies back to New York City’s Times Square.
The 62-year-old McLaren, who launched the careers of a number of punk’s most well-known acts including the Sex Pistols, has produces a series of “artful” porn films that will be broadcast on Broadway between 44th and 45th streets on MTV’s super-sized viewing screen.
“I’ve cut up pieces of old stag movies, slowed them way down, and set them to music,” McLaren told the New York Daily News. “What you see is not people having sex, but people about to have it. The old movies had a lot more foreplay. I was interested in the body language of non-actors, how they communicated their longing.
McLaren describes some of the film segments the can be seen in the movie exhibit, which include, “a chap biting a girl’s ankle as she runs out of the subway,” “two normally dressed schoolboys chased by a naked couple into a dark room” and “a guy vacuuming a tiny piece of red carpet.” Another segment shows “a woman descending a staircase,” a la Marcel Duchamp’s 1912 painting. “She’s wearing a garter belt and a mink. She’s going to an orgy, but you don’t see where she’s going. It’s set to a mash-up of the Captain and Tennille’s ‘Love Will Keep Us Together’ and Joy Division’s ‘Love Will Tear Us Apart.’” Viewers will be able to see the movie with the soundtrack by calling a number that appears on the screen.
McLaren’s film installation entitled, Shallow begins today, and will run through August 14. In McLaren’s interview with the Daily News he explained that MTV was “extremely strict” about what sort of content would be shown in the installation, and that no sex or private parts will be visible on the screen.
The fact that this exhibit is taking place in the area where XXX movies and the sex trade once flourished is not lost on Malcolm McLaren. And though he can appreciate what Disney has done to “clean up” the once sordid section of Manhattan, there is a place in his heart for the area’s seedier days. “Hundreds of people would walk down the street thinking about sex,” McLaren said. “Now the outlawed culture will live on.”
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