Director Angelo Madsen joins us for a post-film discussion.
A BODY TO LIVE IN offers an uncompromising look at the rise of BDSM performance art, body modification and the “modern primitives” cultural movement through the agonies and ecstasies of transgressive artist Fakir Musafar and the communities that surrounded him.
Blending rare archival footage with the voices of queer and artistic trailblazers, the film shows how pain, ritual, and transformation became tools of identity, survival, and self-expression.
Weaving from early experiments and secret gatherings to the emergence of a global subculture shaped by the AIDS crisis and spiritual reinvention, Director Angelo …
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