PORN

Gotta love that title, hey?

At least it got your attention.

Let me put it this way- I am SICK and TIRED of being forced to watch crap like what we had to watch today in the name of "art" and our grade. If it weren't for the fact that I could potentially need to have seen this video for the final, I would have left the class. I probably should have anyway, and then told Carl that he better give me whatever questions he would ask on the final as automatically right answers. I am a Christian, and I pride myself on remaining pure in thought and deed. The Bible tells us to meditate on things that are good and lovely and pure, and this video was anything BUT.

Now, if I spend my life avoiding things like this, why should I have to watch them in class for a grade? Was this prescreened? We had to watch a porno last year and that was bad enough, but this video was even WORSE than that, and that's hard to believe. It not only was openly sexual, it was openly sinful, degrading, and disgusting. I wanted to throw up, and I mean that literally.

So, this is art?

I was having this discussion with one of my friends from the class, afterwards. We were discussing sin and how it permeates anyone's art who is bound by it. If it was drunkenness, most people would laugh at the person's antics. I know a friend who is an alcoholic, and he sits alone at home, depressed, and knocks back hard liquor all night. If he made "art" what would it be? Probably something dealing with drinking. It's the same with sexual sins, like homosexual behaviors. It permeates a person, because they are stuck in their sin. Sin is bondage, and without Christ, you cannot be released. This sinful bondage was so strong in Jennifer's videos that it was like a disgusting and unclean spirit fell over me as I watched it. It was as if I could feel the bondage leaping off the screen.

My friend was saying that most experimental film is not true experimentation, but rather a divulging of a person's innermost sins. Most people will not watch them and they are not mainstream. They are basically lost people, crying out in pain through a medium called film. They don't even realize how lost they are. They think they are just "expressing" themselves, but really they are pushing their sins on us. They know they can't put these things in mainstream media, because it will be rejected. The world doesn't want to see your lesbian acts. I don't want to, and I can guarantee the kids in our class didn't want to. Maybe a few of them, perhaps struggling in sins of their own, enjoyed it, maybe even thought that this woman was brave for "being who she was" but ultimately they are just looking for a way to justify what they know is wrong. They want to reason it away. After all, this artist does it, so it can't be bad. Everyone says her art is "good".

Everything can be relative by us sinful humans, but God is NOT relative! Sin is sin and I am not in school to join in your sin. Keep it OUT of my FACE thanks! The Bible says to hate the sin and love the sinner, but He never said I had to love the system that condones that sin. If we go through this program thinking sin is "art" because our teachers and other artists say so, we are teaching ourselves to think the same way. We are being molded into disgusting immoral "experimentalists".

So what is experimental film? True experimentation is difficult to find. Most experimental films as a growing genre within itself, is merely an excuse to keep living in sin, and convincing other people that they are okay to live in their sin as well. People who make films like these are only called artists because other lost sinful people enjoy having their sins exposed and condoned.

So why was this "artist" in our class? I'd really like to know, honestly. I certainly didn't learn anything artistic from her. There was nothing original or experimental or even ARTISTIC about her films. And she's a teacher? What exactly does she teach her students? How to make pornos? How to be a lesbian? How to make everything about sex? Not even sex, but the degradation of something that God originally created to be beautiful and perfect? How does one person mess something up so horribly! And I still can't believe she was allowed to SHOW that! What a sickening glance at our fallen culture!