The Aesthetics of Mediation - five

More females masturbating to a webcam.

The ardor of the subject suggests that she has no interest in the camera capturing her actions. Over 8 minutes she is not concerned with camera, and the view; the composition is a happy accident. There is an attempt in the first third to move and hold up her legs close, but it's abandoned.

In a way she doesn't know exactly what she intends to do, compositionally. A miracle that it is so good.

I detect a wedding ring, and glasses. The accouterments of reality. Unstaged and therefore charged with added potency. The "unprofessional" framing (the chair in the foreground), her head not (either) being cut off in modesty or being completely in the frame also charges the frame and event as an "open" and captured segment of a larger reality not completely mediated or "created."

This clip for these reasons is one of my favorites in the various female masturbation "mediation" clips I've posted. Its accidental semiotic minimalism (how's that, teacher?) suggests complete verisimilitude.

(re-up video - 4/12/2011)