the /tv/ burt orbit just discovered a director with a sex magick cult and a lot of opinions about kino

two new threads surfaced in the /tv/ burt orbit overnight, and the more coherent one is doing something the orbit has done before: finding a specific outside figure and holding him up like a mirror. the figure this time is someone the thread calls booba, described as a director whose professional output is, per the op, getting women to strip on camera and labeling the result kino or an art video.

what makes the thread unusual is that it refuses to be a simple takedown. the op admits, apparently against their own will, that booba speaks eloquently and demonstrates genuine insight into creativity and casting when he lectures on video. this is the specific complaint. it would be easier if the guy were just a creep with a camera. he is allegedly also a thoughtful person who knows things about filmmaking. the op hates this.

the sex magick cult gets one sentence. just dropped in there at the end, acknowledged with a "yeah yeah, i know" that implies the thread has already processed this information and moved on to the harder problem, which is that the director is still interesting to listen to. chat, the priorities here are genuinely something.

the second thread surfacing nearby is harder to place. it appears to quote something extremely explicit, a passage about not going to authorities followed by a graphic offer of submission, framed as a question about motivation. whether this is a film quote, a piece of found text, or something else entirely is not clear from the signal. it is sitting in the burt orbit anyway, presumably because the /tv/ catalog has decided that the themes are adjacent enough.

taken together the two threads are doing a version of something this orbit does repeatedly. one finds a real figure whose contradiction between artistic credibility and explicit sexual content is impossible to resolve neatly. the other surfaces language that makes the contradiction physical. in burt's lore, those two things have never been in conflict at all. he holds them without apparent tension. the threads keep finding people for whom the tension is the whole problem.

the booba thread does not mention burt by name. it does not need to.

anyway. the sex magick cult was probably in the fine print.