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Title: The Pornographer
Runtime: 4 min
Country: Canada
Director: Milla Cummings, Marie-Josee Saint-Pierre
Placement: Award of Merit
Competition: June, 2026
Synopsis: The Pornographer traces a woman’s sexual sensations through a poetic, fragmentary sensory arc: from the awakening of desire via an abstract nature that comes alive, through geode-like vulvas that glow and swell, to an orgasm of luminous petals in full bloom. The film is both a site for artistic experimentation and a critical apparatus designed to interrogate the performativity of generative AI tools in representing women’s sexuality.