A Body to Live In

A Body to Live In (2025)


  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release Date: 2025-11-15
  • Runtime: 1h 38min
  • Language: English
  • Production Company: Cinereach
  • Production Country: United States of America
  • Director: Angelo Madsen

Summary

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.

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  • Fakir Musafar

    as Self (Archival)
  • Annie Sprinkle

    as Self
  • Ron Athey

    as Self
  • Genesis P-Orridge

    as Self (Archive Footage)
  • Cléo Dubois

    as Self
  • Yossie Silverman

    as Self
  • Paul R. King

    as Self
  • Midori

    as Self
Directing Angelo Madsen Director
Writing Angelo Madsen Writer
Production Lyle Ravi Kash Producer
Camera Talena Sandrs Director of Photography
Production Angelo Madsen Producer

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