Pleasure 2021

Featuring footage from two live performances at the Hacienda club in Manchester, England, as well as the original promotional videos for "Nick the Stripper" and "Deep In the Woods," Pleasure Heads Must Burn offers a solid collection of footage from The Birthday Party's musical history. Some of the songs featured include "Sonny's Burning," "The Six Strings that Drew Blood," and "Pleasure Avalanche," among many others. Bonus material includes footage from several television appearances which originally aired on British and Dutch stations.

Recorded Live at O2 Indigo, London 03.12.2009

A young woman goes undercover at Liza's Palace of Pleasure to investigate a series of disappearances.

An evening of R-rated Internetainment. Think of it as a live episode of Good Mythical Morning, uncensored, with all the fun topics and language we can’t use on YouTube.This time, getting Mythical Beasts even more involved with live voting for the “pain or pleasure” theme.

This comedy chronicles the many crazy sexploits of Xaveria Hollander, the notorious "Happy Hooker."

Video by True Romance, the performance art offshoot of Merzbow

A special documentary dealing with topics as narcotics, sex, promiscuity, fads, pop culture and morals in 1967.

Filmmaker Barbara Hammer recounts how she got her scars as well as her "pleasure wrinkles."

Pinku from 1973.

Audrey and Marc are arriving in their new apartment. Everything looks good exept one detail : in front of the apartment, there is a sex-shop, which makes Audrey jealous. The worst soon happens when Marc meet Cindy, blond and pulpy, an employee of that famous store. Every evening, while Audrey is sleeping, Mark slips out of the apartment and goes to see the beautiful creature of his fantasies ...

Provincials visiting Paris take the drug of Professor Jouvence, which rejuvenates them with the scabrous consequences that one can imagine.

Richard Feynman was a scientific genius with - in his words - a "limited intelligence". This dichotomy is just one of the characteristics that made him a fascinating subject. The Pleasure of Finding Things Out exposes us to many more of these intriguing attributes by featuring an extensive conversation with the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner. During the course of the interview, which was conducted in 1981, Feynman uses the undeniable power of the personal to convey otherwise challenging scientific theories. His colorful and lucid stories make abstract concepts tangible, and his warm presence is sure to inspire interest and awe from even the most reluctant student of science. His insights are profound, but his delivery is anything but dry and ostentatious.

1985-86, 8 minutes, Super 8

El Sátiro (1907) – often considered the oldest surviving porn film – was supposedly filmed in Argentina. The original copy would have been in the hands of a private collector; but it also circulates on the internet. Frame by frame, the copy was preserved through handmade processes. In a visual essay, we investigate the preservation of images and the history of violence and sexuality.

The program starts with a look at Whiteley's studio — a Pandora's Box in which there are clues to his free-ranging talent. He talks of being "born with a gift" and the desire to test and abuse that gift, to enhance it with addiction but ultimately to share it. Whiteley is seen at a huge blank canvas as he makes the first strokes. During the film this work reaches completion. The artist talks of eroticism - the major driving force behind his painting and one of the themes of the film. The landscapes of Byron Bay, Sydney Harbour, Oberon, and Tuscany dissolve between reality and his paintings. The film-makers travel with him and his girlfriend to London where he makes a drawing in a London cab. He then visits the Chamber of Horrors at Madam Tussaud's and talks of his Christie series of paintings. Whiteley's greatest influence is Francis Bacon and in the film he embarks on a major portrait ultimately destined for the Archibald Prize competition.

"For your pleasure but the pleasure is mine" charts the cycles of disempowerment and empowerment in the intimate life of a twenty-something-year-old. Toggling between anxiety and ease, but always clamoring for control, this solitary dance work serves as an inquiry into whether we can reclaim agency over pleasure. (From the artist's website)

A look inside the bondage scene in Auckland, New Zealand, where professional dominatrixes discuss the therapeutic and theatrical aspects of sadomasochism.

A New York dentist moves to a small town where she meets Sue, an undertaker and, after a very tentative beginning, they start a relationship.

Abigail and Cath like each other but they have never had a chance to act on their desire. Abi is in a relationship with James, Cath's flatmate, and one day that he is away Abi has a chance to let her fantasy flow. It's a safe space to explore the cheating fantasy and to break the stereotype of "trying to be sure" that exists in the LGBTQ+ community itself. If you are attracted to a person of your same sex, you don't have to try it physically to be sure of what you feel. And bisexuality is real, it's not a transition and it has nothing to do with promiscuity. It's a sweet and simple story, it's a safe space for two girls to explore each other and feel free.

After thirty-three years, Stanley and Emily are finally closing down their mom and pop corner store, which happens to be a porno shop. When a customer drops in to make a purchase, they regale him with stories of the old days and recall the good times as they pack up their singular merchandise.