Lazlo Pearlman is a conceptual artist, a reputation of clichés, an activist that can blow up our prejudices and dogmas about sex and identity. What appears to be a reflection on the fun lies in our sexual life and suddenly becomes a poignant speech about gender theory and the constant construction of our identity. Fake Orgasm hits the mind and forces a change of perspective to rethink some concepts with which we have been educated. We will have to find new drawers to classify things such as our manhood, our pale or our Barbie superstar.
Jo Sol
(Barcelona, 1968), a self-taught director and writer, developed his first productions in the field of visual anthropology in Cuba, Mexico and India, where he lived from 1992 to 1997. In 1998 he returned to Spain and produced his first TV film Renda Antiga and the short film 0,7 YA!, which won the Audience Award at the Festival de Cine Iberoamericano de Huelva. Jo Sol is one of the most unclassifiable directors on the contemporary scene, his films being halfway between documentary and fiction, and carried out with absolute freedom of speech. In 2000 Jo Sol premiered his first feature film Tatawo shown at international festivals and distributed internationally. Five years later he surprised critics and audiences with the mockumentary The Taxi Thief which won the Special Jury Prize at San Sebastian Film Festival and the Best Film Award at the Nantes Film Festival. In 2008 he started a research trip across five continents with the aim of interviewing people from different cultures, on the common theme of sexuality and identity. Through more than 60 hours of video, photographs, and interviews with real people, he plans to create a monumental multidisciplinary project to be finalized in 2012. The first part of this creative process is Fake Orgasm a documentary starring gender illusionist Lazlo Pearlman.
