On Eye Rape

The original film was rescued from a Tokyo trash bin It is an American sexual education film in which plant and animal sex are explained I together with an artist friend Natsuyuki Nakanishi punched big holes in almost all of the frames It was a protest against Japanese censorship of explicit images of sex particularly pubic hair which the censors would cover with black marks I inserted a few subliminal frames of pornographic imagery from magazines several times throughout the film At the end I even punched holes in these subliminal pictures thereby censoring the censored image Takahiko Iimura