The work of artist and photographer James Bidgood, Pink Narcissus is a breathtaking and outrageous erotic visual poem focusing on the daydreams of a beautiful male sex-worker who, from the seclusion of his ultra-kitsch apartment, conceives a series of interlinked narcissistic fantasies populated by matadors, dancing boys, slaves and leather-clad bikers.
With its highly charged hallucinogenic quality and its atmosphere of lush decadence, Pink Narcissus is a landmark of gay and experimental cinema. Pink Narcissus has been restored by the UCLA Film & Television Archive from original 35mm materials.
Credits
USA 1971
69 min
Certificate 18
Dir James Bidgood
With Bobby Kendall, Don Brooks
Screenings
Previews
2 June
Curzon Camden
6 June
Curzon Bloomsbury
Release screenings
June
13 June
BEAM Hertford
The Cameo, Edinburgh
City Screen, York
Curzon Soho
DCA Dundee
Picturehouse at FACT, Liverpool
16 June
The Chiswick Cinema
20 June
Derby Quad
July
10 July
Triskel Arts Centre