Filmmaker Steve Balderson’s vhas just one question – But those three small words, 60 seconds of tape, and a cast of porn stars, punk rockers and pop culture psychos spouting some of the most prophetic and profane possibilities imaginable converge to address an immortal paradox - What is sexy?

So, what is? Ask around. I’m not sure you could get a consensus on the query. Now, with that in mind, how do you piece together a 95-minute film that is designed to delineate something as indefinable as a personal preference. Balderson wants to call his sociological experiment a pop art installation, part NPR, and part Documentary. He wants to show it at galleries or in the background of cocktail parties - Ostensibly the ones perpetrated by cohorts of fabulous drag kings or queens and filled far-beyond capacity by the blinding brilliance of the cultural and intellectual glitterati. I think he should broadcast it from the billboards of Times Square so that our self-reflective society of over-analysis can get a better view of the beast within.

I know that last statement sounds a bit harsh, but considering the mass-inundation that we, as a whole, are subjected to every day by the Radio, the Television, the Print and Web based media, it’s a wonder that any stone anywhere has gathered moss. As the film opens, the audience is treated to some kind of bacchanalia of Carl Sagan spectacle supplanted by a nearly cathartic concept of deep-seeded theorem on the manifestation of sensuality. It’s a laughably heady start to what at times diverges into little more than a laundry list of frothy fetishes and classic film star facial features. Moving the frames through the 120 some-odd calls is a softly panning background that momentarily illustrates some concept that the callers depict as seemingly important. From Marilyn Monroe to Edie Sedgwick, Balderson’s spotted backgrounds, crackling voiceovers and prodigious use of telephone beeps and buzzes often feel like a next-generation progression in a self-styled tribute to Andy Warhol’s 15-minute film studies.

For the most part the callers - including such fringe luminaries as Ron Jeremy, Margaret Cho, B-movie princess Tiffany Shepis, the Go-Go’s Jane Wiedlin, Russ Meyer vixen Tura Satana, Troma President Lloyd Kaufman, Comedian and Magician Penn Jillette, Actress Edie McClurg and performance artist extraordinaire The Enigma – offer minutes of sometimes brilliant, sometimes bloated ruminations on what is and is not stimulating, only momentarily offering a few anti-messages about life along the way.

Regardless of form content or the director’s preconceived notions about how and where this film will play, I saw sit down and give yourself over to the absolute pleasure of the film at hand. Like featured caller Penn Jillette’s 2005 orgy of obscenity THE ARISTOCRATS – Balderson has created a raucously witty and terrifyingly insightful look into the comic eyes of human sensibility, or lack thereof – and that’s something that fringe film fans and sociology students alike should find pretty fucking sexy.