Ron Athey
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Ron Athey was born on December 16, 1961 in Groton, Connecticut, USA. He is known for his work on Single White Female (1992), S (2002) and Hustler White (1996).
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Groton, Connecticut, USA
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Solar Anus
Overview: Based off a homophobic Bataille essay — L’Anus Solaire (1931) — which draws the erect penis as the sun, and the anus as the nighttime, attracted to each other but unable to exist together, Ron Athey’s performance work aims to queer Bataille’s theory. After pinning his face and head into a crown, Athey proceeds to fuck himself with a dildo attached to a pair of high heels, eventually releasing a string of pearls from his anus.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-01-01
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HotMen CoolBoyz
Overview: HotMen CoolBoyz (or H.M.C.B.) is a Danish adult film directed by Knud Vesterskov and starring Ron Athey and Billy Herrington. It is the only gay hardcore pornographic film ever produced by an established mainstream film company, yet upon its release was almost completely ignored by the Danish press, and only later started to gain an international reputation for its unique artistic imagery.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-04-01
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Sex/Life in L.A.
Overview: A look at the sex lives of the guys who make L.A. adult movies.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-06-08
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Hustler White
Overview: A writer, researching a book on male prostitutes, finds a young man to serve as a guide on the streets of Los Angeles.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-07-19
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Hallelujah! Ron Athey: A Story of Deliverance
Overview: Documentary exploring Ron Athey’s life and career as a queer HIV-positive body modification and performance artist, including several of Athey’s internationally staged works from the late 1990s.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-12-11
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Fertile La Toyah Video Magazine #2: The Kinky Issue!
Overview: Prostrate probing interviews! Live action murder! Naked people! Tired death-rockers! And more! Much more!!
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-01-01
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Ron Athey Is the Trojan Whore
Overview: In this documentary Kerkhof takes the viewer into a bizarre underworld, the sub-culture of blood art and body piercing performance art. Kerkhof's camera registered a performance by the American blood artist Ron Athey which took place during the FREAK ZONE festival in Lille, France in May 1997. The camerawork is so freaky one would almost suspect it is under the influence of heroin. The film includes interviews with Athey as well as shocking live fragments wherein Athey works his face over with injection needles. The crazy, maniacal clamour of the HIV positive priest/performer gives us insights into the motives and goals of this group of masochistic performance artists. Somebody who entertains his audience by cutting and stabbing himself; is this art? Who can say? What is beyond question is that Kerkhof's masterful use of the camera and editing not only obscures the images but also the boundary between art and unbearable filth.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-12-17
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Ron Athey: It's Scripted
Overview: But happily Kerkhof the uncompromising iconoclast is back. With his newest film RON ATHEY: IT’S SCRIPTED (the original title RON ATHEY: SO MANY WAYS TO SAY HALLELUJAH had to be changed because there is already a 2 hour documentary in production under this title) he has delivered a convincing artistic achievement. Those without strong stomachs will probably find the overwhelming amount of injection needles and razor blades a bit too much, but the film is so cleverly constructed that one cannot look away.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-12-17
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Saint Mulekicker
Overview: Ron Athey is a rising Los Angeles performance artist who presents his disturbing and powerful S&M-related work in the underground club circuit. The tattoos on Ron's body, inspired by tribal markings and other religious imagery, are reference to stages in his life, from his childhood in a Latino neighbourhood, through his years of drug addiction and punk rock, to his present involvement in the 'Modern Primitive' movement in LA. This self-narrated documentary is a complex account of an individual contending with the extremes of human experience.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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The Dance Is Not Over
Overview: Celebrating the life and career of dancer, performer, choreographer, LGBTQ+ and publicly HIV-positive activist Patrick Scully, whose Patrick’s Cabaret was a South Minneapolis fixture for decades. His work in MN, New York and Berlin, expresses his passion for life, and touches on subjects that are often controversial and profound.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2025-04-08
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Sanctuary
Overview: Sanctuary explores queer spirituality and utopian sexualities through the figure of Purusha Androgyne Larkin (1934–1988), a monk, pioneering gay filmmaker, and self-proclaimed cosmic-erotic mystic.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-09-27
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A Body to Live In
Overview: A Body to Live In is an intimate inquiry into the life and work of Fakir Musafar, an influential figure in the queer body-modification community. The film explores his outsized impact and the formation of the “Modern Primitive” movement through decades of archives and interviews with those close to him. Creative treatment of the archives presents them as living texts—photos and video are layered, inverted, and interpolated to bring them new meaning and texture. Angelo Madsen’s sophomore feature is supplemented by seamlessly interwoven personal accounts to craft an portrayal that is loving yet not afraid of critique, embracing both the joy of self-discovery as well as the complex spirituality Musafar came to represent. Through his life and work, the film gives rise to profound questions of bodily autonomy and the body’s relationship to our sense of self.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2025-02-27
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