A BODY TO LIVE IN offers an uncompromising look at the rise of BDSM performance art, body modification and the ‘modern primitives’ cultural movement through the agonies and ecstasies of transgressive artist Fakir Musafar and the communities that surrounded him. Blending rare archival footage with the voices of queer and artistic trailblazers, the film shows how pain, ritual, and transformation became tools of identity, survival, and self-expression. Weaving from early experiments and secret gatherings to the emergence of a global subculture shaped by the AIDS crisis and spiritual reinvention, Director Angelo Madsen (NORTH BY CURRENT) reveals not just the story of one artist, but a collective history of bodies in revolt - asking what it truly means to live freely in one’s own skin.
Angelo Madsen
Director, Writer
Fakir Musafar
Self (Archival)
Annie Sprinkle
Self
Ron Athey
Self
Genesis P-Orridge
Self (Archive Footage)
Cléo Dubois
Self
Yossie Silverman
Self
Paul R. King
Self
Midori
Self
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