Pleasure 2021

Richard Feynman was a scientific genius with - in his words - a "limited intelligence". This dichotomy is just one of the characteristics that made him a fascinating subject. The Pleasure of Finding Things Out exposes us to many more of these intriguing attributes by featuring an extensive conversation with the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner. During the course of the interview, which was conducted in 1981, Feynman uses the undeniable power of the personal to convey otherwise challenging scientific theories. His colorful and lucid stories make abstract concepts tangible, and his warm presence is sure to inspire interest and awe from even the most reluctant student of science. His insights are profound, but his delivery is anything but dry and ostentatious.

1985-86, 8 minutes, Super 8

El Sátiro (1907) – often considered the oldest surviving porn film – was supposedly filmed in Argentina. The original copy would have been in the hands of a private collector; but it also circulates on the internet. Frame by frame, the copy was preserved through handmade processes. In a visual essay, we investigate the preservation of images and the history of violence and sexuality.

The program starts with a look at Whiteley's studio — a Pandora's Box in which there are clues to his free-ranging talent. He talks of being "born with a gift" and the desire to test and abuse that gift, to enhance it with addiction but ultimately to share it. Whiteley is seen at a huge blank canvas as he makes the first strokes. During the film this work reaches completion. The artist talks of eroticism - the major driving force behind his painting and one of the themes of the film. The landscapes of Byron Bay, Sydney Harbour, Oberon, and Tuscany dissolve between reality and his paintings. The film-makers travel with him and his girlfriend to London where he makes a drawing in a London cab. He then visits the Chamber of Horrors at Madam Tussaud's and talks of his Christie series of paintings. Whiteley's greatest influence is Francis Bacon and in the film he embarks on a major portrait ultimately destined for the Archibald Prize competition.

"For your pleasure but the pleasure is mine" charts the cycles of disempowerment and empowerment in the intimate life of a twenty-something-year-old. Toggling between anxiety and ease, but always clamoring for control, this solitary dance work serves as an inquiry into whether we can reclaim agency over pleasure. (From the artist's website)

A look inside the bondage scene in Auckland, New Zealand, where professional dominatrixes discuss the therapeutic and theatrical aspects of sadomasochism.

A New York dentist moves to a small town where she meets Sue, an undertaker and, after a very tentative beginning, they start a relationship.

Abigail and Cath like each other but they have never had a chance to act on their desire. Abi is in a relationship with James, Cath's flatmate, and one day that he is away Abi has a chance to let her fantasy flow. It's a safe space to explore the cheating fantasy and to break the stereotype of "trying to be sure" that exists in the LGBTQ+ community itself. If you are attracted to a person of your same sex, you don't have to try it physically to be sure of what you feel. And bisexuality is real, it's not a transition and it has nothing to do with promiscuity. It's a sweet and simple story, it's a safe space for two girls to explore each other and feel free.

After thirty-three years, Stanley and Emily are finally closing down their mom and pop corner store, which happens to be a porno shop. When a customer drops in to make a purchase, they regale him with stories of the old days and recall the good times as they pack up their singular merchandise.

Meeting on a Saturday morning to drink champagne, the friends embark on a new journey through the depths of the male subconscious. What are the men talking about this time? Of course, about the personal. Lyosha is trying to understand whether "female friendship" exists, Kamil discusses whether it is possible to fire his best friend, Lovelace Slava recalls his first love (or was it not his?), and Sasha reflects on the loss of his father and the need to enjoy life here and now. And yet, walking around the center of Moscow, friends discuss how to screw in a light bulb so that she is satisfied, and what candid photos scream about on social networks, and what is chevapchichi.

B'z LIVE-GYM Hidden Pleasure ~Typhoon No.20~ is a home video by B'z, released on DVD on December 10, 2008. The three-disc, three hour set serves as a compilation of previously unreleased and uncollected footage from past LIVE-GYM concerts along with special footage not included elsewhere in the band's catalogue.

Constable's famous painting "The Haywain" seems like a good place for a picnic until the town planners move in. The painting turns into a nightmare of urban tourist resort exploitation.

Yasuji Hajima runs a butcher shop. When he was younger, he was just as interested in the sex as the next man but lately he has a hard time satisfying his wife who is still oversexed at her age. The Hajimas have one son, Shuichi, who is studying to enter Tokyo University. It is after he sees his parents acting in which he considers an odious manner that he changes entirely and raises the roof in every whichever way.

A dancer encounters an unnatural menacing force to the beat of a rockabilly tune. Madness ensues as the surreal and nightmarish event unfolds setting the stage for the question of whats real and whats not. Is it a dream or hallucination?

A group of tourists gets presented the advantages of a holiday in South Africa in a slide show. A short by Vernon Whitten.

Jessup, forced to hide his true identity, is imprisoned on a deadly and desolate planet, the Star Prison. banished to mine rabid rivers for the elusive Fire Gems, Jessup and his men must battle bands of derelict prisoners and fight the fatal fangs of the Star Worms in order to supply the Lords of the Evil Empire with the sacred source of their hedonistic hallucinogenic opiates.

1st Pleasure CD "Pico Magic" (May 4, 2003) 1. Onegai! Pico Majin / Please! Piko Genie ☆ 2. PicoDJ ☆ / PicoDJ ☆ 3. Shijin Ballad no Higeki / The tragedy of the poet Ballad 4. Tadoritsuku Uta / Poetry to reach 5. Raijin no Keifu / Genealogy of Raijin 6. Ark (Pico Magic ver.) 7. Majo to Lafrenze [Pico Magic Ver.] / Witch and Lafrenze (Pico Magic ver.) 8. Mahoutsukai Sarabanto 9. Koibito wo Uchiotoshita Hi / The day when I shot my lover 10. Giniro no Basha / Silver carriage 11. Thanatos no Gensou wa Owaranai ... / The illusion of Tanatos never ends

Mr Pipe is called into service for repetition. His fiancée is jealous and dresses up as soldier and goes with him without him noticing.