Progressive Touch
Can you fu*k to an irregular beat? Progressive Touch depicts three moody, absurdist love scenes in which the goal is to “improve” sex by complicating its rhythm and choreography. Sex as dance and as comedy. Enacted by three real-life couples, the dancers’ every explicit move is synchronized to a propulsive, unpredictable score that borrows elements from progressive rock, trap, and math metal.
- Austria, Netherlands
- 2020, 13 min
- Director: Michael Portnoy
- Director of photography: Darja Pilz
- Editor: Camila Mercadal
- Screenplay: Michael Portnoy
- Music: Stefan Maier, Michael Portnoy
- Cast: Tizo All, Ilona Bankiraj, Marc Philipp Gabriel, Juan Felipe Amaya González, Astrid Panaken, Deva Schubert
- Art Director: Ran Chai Bar-zvi
- Producer: Esther Niemeier, Julia Simpson
Michael Portnoy
Michael Portnoy is a New York-based multimedia artist. Coming from a background in dance and experimental comedy, his performance-based work employs a variety of media: from film and participatory installations to theater, sculpture, writing, painting, and curation. He has showed his work internationally at museums, art galleries, and theaters. He is a visiting professor at Malmö Art Academy.