In "No Lies: Direct Cinema as Rape" Sobchack really interestingly touches on voyeurism as a pleasure of film viewing. I was drawn by the way she writes about films that narratively portray rape and are therefore about rape, but not necessarily committing violence/rape on the viewer. There is a safe distance between the narrative violence. Yet in Block's No Lies, because the rape is happening in several different places, there is no exit or safety for the viewer, which is both really violent/aggressive but also not passive, which can be admirable.
No Lies recalled for me this video of Rupaul speaking about being a go-go dancer in 1988. It documents a small slice of his life at the time and also speaks about that kind of violence both passively/not passively.
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