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  Laura Kipnis
Ecstasy Unlimited: the interpenetrations of sex and capital
  USA 1985
Videotape, 72:01, colour
Machines designed to increase production efficiency place their mark on their operators and turn them into mere replaceable extensions of themselves. The slavish regularity of the machine gradually grinds down every worker to fit a particular mould. If society as a whole does not oppose this phenomenon, individual resistance is doomed to failure. In ' Ecstasy Unlimited' Kipnis goes in track of sex in a machine age. A visitor to a massage parlour, a link in the above-mentioned production-line, pours out his troubles to the masseuse. He concludes that he gets from her the attention that at work he has to go without; she concludes that she ought to get into telephone sex forthwith. Then at least she can hang up. Kipnis takes an entertaining stroll in sexualibus, while revealingly exposing the basis of it all - just who's making money out of whom.

Henny Kamphuizen

Camera: Paul Zaritsky, Jim Morrissette, Editing: Taggart Siegel, Laura Kipnis, Effects: Marsh Jordan, Sound: Dana Plepys, Music: Steve Rodby, Sound mixing: Rich Breen, Michael Coyle, Production: Laua Kipnis, With: Paul Greatbatch, Trish Eliott, Vivian Davis, Sam Sanders, Bonnie Sue Arp, Fred Eberle, Bill Bush, Eileen Manganero