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Pink Narcissus is a 1971 American arthouse drama film directed by James Bidgood[2] and starring (unknowns) Bobby Kendall, Don Brooks and stage actor Charles Ludlam. It visualizes the erotic fantasies of a gay male prostitute.

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Pink Narcissus
Directed by	James Bidgood
Written by	James Bidgood
Produced by	James Bidgood
Starring	Bobby Kendall Charles Ludlam[1]
Cinematography	James Bidgood
Edited by	Martin Jay Sadoff
Music by	Martin Jay Sadoff Gary Goch
Distributed by	Sherpix Inc Strand Releasing (2003 re-release)
Release date	May 24, 1971 (May 24, 1971)
Running time	71 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$27,000 (estimated)

Premise

Between visits from his keeper, or John, a handsome male prostitute (Bobby Kendall), alone in his apartment, lounges, fantasizing about worlds where he is the central character. For example, he pictures himself as a matador, a Roman slave boy and the emperor who condemns him, and the keeper of a male harem for whom another male performs a belly dance.

Production

The film is mostly shot on 8 mm film[3] with bright, otherworldly lighting and intense colors. Aside from its last, climactic scene, which was shot in a downtown Manhattan loft, it was produced in its entirety (including outdoor scenes) in Bidgood's small New York City apartment over a seven-year (from 1963 to 1970) period and ultimately released without the consent of the director, who therefore had himself credited as Anonymous. He said in an interview, "See, why I took my name off of it was that I was protesting, which I'd heard at the time that's what you did..."[3]

Provenance

Because the name of the filmmaker was not widely known, there were rumors that Andy Warhol was behind it.[1] In the mid-1990s, writer Bruce Benderson began a search for its maker based on several leads and finally verified that it was James Bidgood, who was still living in Manhattan and was working on a film script.[4] In 1999, a book researched and written by Benderson was published by Taschen about Bidgood's body of photographic and filmic work.

Bidgood's unmistakably kitschy style has later been imitated and refined by artists such as Pierre et Gilles.^{[citation needed]}

In 2003, the film was re-released by Strand Releasing as the film had its 35th anniversary in 2006.[1]

Music

• Joseph Haydn: Horn Concerto No. 1
• Modest Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition
• Modest Mussorgsky: Night on Bald Mountain
• Sergei Prokofiev: Alexander Nevsky
• Kenneth Gaburo: "Lemon Drops"
• Genaro Nunez, Banda Taurina, Rosalio Juarez: "Corazon Hispano"

See also

• List of American films of 1971

References

External links

• Pink Narcissus at IMDb
• Pink Narcissus at AllMovie

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