Hard-core Sex Film to Premiere as Art at Tate Modern

Tate Modern is to hold the British premiere of one of the year's most explicit films -a hard-core sex anthology billed as art - because the gallery is exempt from classification rules governing cinemas. Destricted, an Anglo-American production, is a two-hour compilation of seven short films made by artists and independent film-makers who were commissioned to "explore the fine line where art and pornography intersect".

It is supervised by Gaspar Noé, the French director whose 2002 film Irreversible featured a nine-minute rape scene. Critics who watched it at the Sundance and Cannes film festivals say it leaves little to the imagination.

It features numerous acts of sexual intercourse. The contribution of the British artist Sam Taylor-Wood, the wife of the Old Etonian art dealer Jay Jopling, is an eight-minute scene of a man masturbating outdoors in Death Valley. Another section shows a man having sex with the driveshaft of a 50-ton lorry.

Report in full is in the Daily Telegraph