5:30pm Pre-drinks
6:30pm Screening
1hr 41mins running time
8:15pm exclusive Q&A
8:45pm after party with DJ - HOWL Worldwide Collab
Tickets £15
18+
Come and celebrate the launch of London Fetish Film Festival 2026 with us in collaboration with HOWL Worldwide! Take in Bruce La Bruce's THE VISITOR with an exclusive Q&A, then enjoy a tailor-made LFFF cocktail and DJ set in the bar afterwards!
A refugee arrives at the home of an upper-class family in London and seduces each member of the family. When he suddenly is gone, he leaves behind a void that the rest try to fill in different ways.
Director's Statement:
"I have always been influenced and inspired by the work of Pier Paolo Pasolini, and I have been drawn particularly, time and again, to his film 'Teorema' (1968). In Pasolini's original,Terence Stamp plays a mysterious character only identified in the credits as "The Visitor". The origin of this character is never explained as he infiltrates an upper class Milanese family, gains their trust, and seduces them one by one; the frustrated mother, the alienated father, the delicate son, the innocent daughter, and the devoutly religious maid. In my re-imagining of 'Teorema'. I wanted to add a more contemporary political dimension to this highly symbolic story. My intention was to reverse the dominating rhetoric in politics and the press on the sexualized violence of refugees. The "alien" instead becomes a sexual healer, a sensitive subject I have explored before through the trope of the Black male's sexual potency as a threat to the domesticated white bourgeois sexual repression, a theme that Fassbinder explored in his film 'Whity'. It makes sense in a modern British context to represent the Visitor as a racial minority considering the xenophobia and paranoia about immigration currently displayed in Europe, not only by the increasingly vocal extreme right wing elements actually gaining political traction and governmental representation, but more vaguely by traditionally colonialist countries in general that have previously "invaded" other countries of different ethnic majorities as hostile "aliens" themselves. I've found that the best strategy as an artist or filmmaker for the insurgent re-investigation of an existing piece of cinema is to explore the sexual subtext of the original and make it as explicit as possible for maximum effect. I came to the conclusion that if you are going to make a film about sexual revolution, it's best to put your Marxism where your mouth is and make the movie sexually explicit, or even better, pornographic, prioritizing praxis over theory." - Bruce LaBruce
About London Fetish Film Festival:
London Fetish Film Festival is an international platform unleashing fearless cinema that dives into kink, fetish, BDSM, psychology, desire and power with hardcore substance, and zero shame. From arthouse to explicit, tender to transgressive, we celebrate films that smash taboos, challenge censorship, and electrify audiences through bold, provocative, and deeply human explorations of fetish culture and lifestyle.
HOWL is a sexual wellness brand revolutionising intimacy through innovative sex tech products. They leverage the power of experiential events and a viral media channel to dismantle shame and champion pleasure.
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