First in-person screening of a love story about fetish porn

Raw! Uncut! Video! honors the incredible history of gay porn studio Palm Drive Video, whose revolutionary sleaze films showcased rugged blue-collar men enacting their most explicit sexual fantasies onscreen. Independently founded by leathermen Jack Fritscher and Mark Hemry, their infamous videos playfully depict hardcore kink rarely before seen in porn, ushering in a new era of sex positivity during the rise of the AIDS epidemic. This survey of their indelible work asserts the duo as an iconiclastic creative force and celebrates the beauty of raw, unbridled erotic expression.

“Without Tom of Finland’s iconic work, there would be no Palm Drive Video. What Tom put on paper we, as graphic artists, tried to put on screen in our own artistic interpretation of homomasculine men.” –Jack Fritscher

The film will also screen on Outfest’s virtual platform.

Published: 12th August 2021

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