72SSIFF - 20/28 September 2024
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Sick: the life and death of Bob Flanagan, supermasochist

Kirby Dick
USA
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This is a provocative and deeply moving chronicle of the life and work of Bob Flanagan, an internationally acclaimed performance artist and writer born with the painful disease Cystic Fibrosis who explored the limits of illness, pain, sexuality, love and death through extremely graphic sadomasochistic presentations, before dying in January1996. 

Director
Kirby Dick
Screenplay
Kirby Dick
Photography
Jonathan Dayton, Kirby Dick, Sheree Rose, Geza Sinkóvics
Edition
Kirby Dick, Dody Dorn
Music
Blake Leyh
Cast
Bob Flanaga, Sheree Rose
Running Time
90 m.
Country
USA
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