Look out for flying pigs: The wildly unmarketable, compilation-style porn flick Destricted (review) has actually been picked up for US distribution. Though the movie was passed over by American companies at Sundance where it had its debut (at that time only UK distribution was secured), IFC Entertainment bought the rights at Cannes following a recent screening. According to Screen Daily, IFC plans to give the film one of those increasingly-popular simultaneous home-and-theater releases; it will be on screens -- presumably in IFC's own facilities, at least in New York -- and available via video-on-demand through their FirstTake branch.

For those of you not up on your arty porn, Destricted is made up of seven segments by different directors (Larry Clark, Matthew Barney, and Gaspar Noé among them) who were told to make pornography and to keep it shorter than 20 minutes - anything else they did was up to them.

So  maybe there's hope for Shortbus after all, huh? Screw the MPAA, bring on the porn!

As Erik reported back in January (Can you believe it's already April?), the Sundance Institute will bring its indie mojo to the east coast next month with a series at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM). For eleven days, starting on May 11, BAM will be featuring not only films from this year's Sundance festival, but also Q&A sessions with filmmakers, discussions on independent cinema, and chances to see and hear works from the Sundance composers lab and new works of musical theater.

Among the 14 films that will screen at BAM are Iraq in Fragments (look for a review from Kim in the next couple of days), artsy porn flick Destricted, Wristcutters: A Love Story, Sherrybaby, and screenwriting award winner Stephanie Daley. Also, as an added bonus for you The Usual Suspects fans (it premiered at Sundance in 1995), screenwriter Christopher McQuarrie will be featured at a special event, discussing the development of his film and showing "never-before-seen uncut footage straight from [the]...set." Yeah, you suddenly want to go to Brooklyn, don't you?

Tickets for most screenings go on sale next Monday, so get your calendar out and starting making some plans.

Destricted, the compilation-style porn flick (presumably extremely un-MPAA friendly), has managed to secure distribution, albeit only the in the UK. As indicated by our exhausted team on the ground in Park City, this buy - by niche experts Revolver Entertainment - is surprising for a couple of reasons. First and most obviously, because the film is so totally unmarketable, due both to its subject (the seven participating directors were told to make pornography and to keep it shorter than 20 minutes - anything else they did was up to them) and its unconventional style (there's a review here). The second reason comes more from the deal's context - the fact that something so intentionally risky and difficult would be picked up while many of the competition films are still on the table is seen as yet another sign of "what an odd year this is, deal-wise."

In addition, word is that negotiations are underway with "several companies" for US rights to the film. You never know, we still might get a chance to see the MPAA swallow its collective tongue.