Working over the course of seven years, artist and director James Bidgood crafted a kaleidoscopic fever dream of queer desire and sexual awakening with the underground masterpiece Pink Narcissus.
A story following a handsome young male prostitute, as he loses himself into elaborate fantasies of incredible beauty; imagining himself as a matador, a Roman slave, and the master of an exotic harem.
A visual poem, the film is both a milestone of experimental cinema and a landmark of queer representation, with its ambitious fusion of high art and creative spirit refusing to be constrained by any conventional limitations.
A meditation on beauty, desire, and self-reflection which remains as mesmerising today as when it first emerged from its visionary creator's world.
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