Michel Houellebecq, considered France’s greatest living author and a potential Nobel laureate, is now set to become a porn star in a graphic new documentary film “KIrac 27,” produced by the Dutch art collective KIRAC.
“He f**ks like crazy,” said Stefan Ruitenbeek, the Dutch director of the film, who spoke to Vice about the documentary for the first time and his relationship with Houellebecq.
Ruitenbeek described a depressed Houellebecq whose only real joy in life at the age of 66 is having sex. Qianyun Lysis Li, the author’s younger wife, plays an active role in procuring a dwindling number of women willing to sleep with the aging literary star. Ruitenbeek then steps in and helps procure women willing to sleep with Houellebecq for the new film, which has yet to be released but is already drawing international attention.
“I told him that I knew several girls in Amsterdam who would have sex with him, a guy who is a famous author, out of pure curiosity and that I could book a hotel room for him if I was allowed to film everything,” says Ruitenbeek during the trailer while explaining how he managed to get the author to participate.
“He is very energetic. The first day he slept with Jini in his house in Paris, they got along very well. It was incredible; we did a lot of positions, blowjobs, cunnilingus. In his books, characters who look like him are ugly, and they can’t have wives, but in real life, Houellebecq is a seducer. In bed, he is very good, he f**ks like crazy, he is really manly with women. I was not expecting that at all. I thought he was going to cum in three minutes, but he fucked for hours. He’s a real guy,” said Ruitenbeek.
However, the film is not meant to be purely pornography, according to the director, who says the scenes that were filmed were a meditation on life, depression, and fame:
This author has become immortal thanks to his books, his work is there for eternity, what he created will remain for centuries. But today, Michel Houellebecq is also an old body that will soon die. Even though his body is near the end, it begs her for sex, to be touched, orgasms, and happiness. You can be the greatest author of literature, you can make history, but in the end you remain this little body, this little piece of flesh that won’t live very long. This film is therefore about intimacy, love, and what it means to be a depressed 66-year-old man. For Michel Houellebecq, it was not just a question of sex. What interested him was also the meaning of this performance, that of a writer at the end of his life who becomes a porn star.
The director also says that he contacted the author after he canceled a planned honeymoon with his wife Qianyum Lysis Li in Morocco, as Houellebecq feared being kidnapped by Muslim extremists.
“His wife had spent a whole month fixing prostitutes, and now everything had collapsed,” says Ruitenbeek in the trailer.
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Houellebecq has repeatedly been critical of Islam in the past and told Muslims to leave France if they would not stop thieving and attacking.
“The wish of the native French population, as they say, is not that Muslims assimilate, but that they stop stealing from them and attacking them — or else, another solution, that they go,” Houellebecq said late last year.
His statements earned a complaint from the Great Mosque of Paris, which accuses him of incitement against an ethnic group. He also recently made headlines for saying that the Great Replacement is a fact: “I was very shocked that it was called a theory. It’s not a theory, it’s a fact. When it comes to immigration, nobody controls anything, that’s the whole problem. Europe will be swept away by this cataclysm.”
Houellebecq made the remarks while speaking with philosopher Michel Onfray for the French publication Front Populaire in what turned out to be an explosive long-form conversation piece between the two.
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In the interview with Vice, Ruitenbeek said that the idea to shoot a porn film with a French author originally came from the writer’s wife.
“Lysis Houellebecq told me that, ‘if you really want to help him, you have to make him a porn star.’ I couldn’t say no, that would have been rude,” he said.
When asked by Vice whether he “contradicts himself when he says the West is decadent when he himself has become a porn star,” Ruitenbeek responded, “I don’t think there is any contradiction between seeing our society as decadent and becoming decadent yourself. Traditional values are long lost, so why not become a porn star?”
Houellebecq is known for blurring the lines between reality and fiction. In his book “The Map and Territory,” he himself plays a key role in the novel, describing himself with a surprising level of brutality and humor. He is also well-known for living a life defined by contradictions, which he openly acknowledges, such as his desire for religion but his inability to maintain any modicum of faith. His latest role as a porn star sounds like it could be ripped from the pages of one of his novels, with the film already sparking fierce public and intellectual debate.
The art collective itself, KIRAC, led by Ruitenbeek, is no stranger to controversy. In a previous film, they convinced a right-wing philosopher Sid Lukkassen to engage in sex with Jini van Rooijen, an OnlyFans model and philosophy student. Lukkassen attempted to stop the publication of the film, in which van Rooijen ends up rejecting Lukkassen. Ruitenbeek released the footage despite these objections in a piece entitled “Honey Pot.”
