“Our work is about pushing creativity across traditional and new media platforms.” ‘The Blindness of The Woods’ is a project that they have dubbed a new genre – “Cute Porn”. “Everything started by watching porn at the studio. It’s not that we do that very often but let’s say that we were doing that. And while we were watching it we started talking about the different types of porn, and we divided it into two: Hard Porn and Soft Porn. From there we came up with the term Cute Porn. Right away we liked the idea of creating two worlds that apparently couldn’t match, the cute and the porn world. Actually that was our challenge. We tried to confront those 2 extremes along the process, through opposite temperatures: cold and hot. The short is about the encounter of these 2”. “Shot in super 16mm. The trees, the forest, the cabin and the snow, are fake. They are part of a set we had designed in a big studio in Buenos Aires, in the neighborhood of Munro where you can find jackets at a great price. We always liked the idea of not having anything real in the set, to reinforce the concept of fairy tale. For the wide shots we built a big scale model of the cabin and forest with mountains painted in the background....
The Blindness of the Woods appears in full on the Dvd in this issue.
