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LFFF 2026: A BODY TO LIVE IN - Feature Film + 2024 LFFF award winning short films
Full run time 122.57mins
Tickets £15
18+
2024 Award Winners: Best Performer + Best Cinematography + Festival Director's Choice
Subspace
20mins 18secs
This love-story being dom and sub is a BDSM film that explores the intimacy and trust between partners.
Starring Commander Ares and Roughkicks
Dir. Matt Lambert
2024 Award Winners: Best Art Direction
The Architect
4mins 39secs
Odette Engle performing a process of inverted architectural mapping on the suspended body of Cute But Deadly.
A Body to Live In
1hr 38mins
A BODY TO LIVE IN is a feature film that traces the life and work of legendary photographer, performer, and "Gender Flex" cultural icon, Fakir Musafar (1930-2018). Through investigating the body modification movement and the trajectory of Fakir's art career and philosophy, A BODY TO LIVE IN uncovers a riveting facet of queer history. Using Fakir's early experiments in body play and his photographic works from the 1940s and 50s as a springboard, the film traces the body modification movement as it emerged in LGBT subculture in the early 1970s. The film introduces us to early collaborative experimentation at gay underground BDSM parties, leading to the first piercing shop, moving through the radical faerie movement and the role of body modification during the AIDS epidemic, the emergence of body-based performance art, and the rise of an entire subculture. Insights from key figures including Annie Sprinkle, Ron Athey, Idexa Stern, Jim Ward, Midori, and others provoke deeper reflections about art making, surviving AIDS, and the controversial collaging of various spiritual and cultural practices to build a philosophy. Captured in static 16mm film portraits, A BODY TO LIVE IN unfolds conversationally between Fakir's archive of 100+ hours of unseen footage, and the voices of the canonical elders of this movement, to create intergenerational dialog, question cultural responsibility, and provoke larger ideas about the drive to transcend the limits of the body.
