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The queer art of Body modification took center stage in 1989 when Fakir Musafar’s “Modern Primitives” movement hit alternative cultures around the globe via the punk subcultural magazine Re/Search. A photographer, performance artist, and ritualist, Musafar’s work mobilized an entire generation of artists, thinkers, and seekers. A Body To Live In introduces this riveting “Gender Flex” icon to uncover the rich history of western body modification and its controversial intersections with sexuality and spiritual practices. |
Fakir performs at the 1978 Reno Tattoo Convention
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THE TEAM
ANGELO MADSEN
Writer / Director Angelo Madsen (Previously known as Madsen Minax) is a filmmaker, visual artist, and educator. His projects consider how human relationships are woven through personal and collective histories, cultures, and kinships. Madsen's works have shown at Berlinale, Toronto International Film Festival, Tribeca Film Festival, HotDocs, BAM CinemaFest, Art of the Real, BFI, Edinburgh International Film Festival, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Leslie Lohman Museum, Outfest, Newfest, Frameline, and dozens of LGBT film festivals internationally. His film, North By Current (2021), aired on season 34 of POV (PBS), and won both a Cinema Eye award and an IDA award for Best Writing. A New York Times Critics Pick, North By Current has been called "A beautiful, complex wonder of a film," by Rolling Stone. Madsen teaches video art at the University of Vermont, is a Queer|Art Mentor, a United States Artist Fellow and a Guggenheim Fellow.
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LYLE RAVI KASH
Producer Lyle Ravi Kash is a filmmaker and interdisciplinary practitioner who makes films by trans people about trans people. His projects have spanned abolitionist work with the Transformative Justice Law Project in Chicago, media literacy and activism with Media Mobilizing Project in Philadelphia, and his short films have screened at the Ann Arbor Film Festival, San Diego Underground Film Festival, and Experimental Forum Los Angeles. Kash's debut film DEATH AND BOWLING (2021) had an extensive festival run garnering awards from Outfest, Newfest, LesGaiCine Madrid, and Lovers Film Festival in Torino, Italy. AutoStraddle called the film "a fantasia on death and creation..." stating that "this is what we should be yearning for." The film was acquired by Wolfe Releasing and is available worldwide.
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TALENA SANDERS
Director of Photography Talena Sanders draws from their background in experimental film and studio arts to create ethically engaged, visually striking cinema that questions and destabilizes the documentary form. Largely working in 16mm film, Sanders is deeply engaged in historical analysis, materiality, and lives lived - their works ask critical questions of privilege and power in who gets to tell the stories of lived realities. Talena’s work has been screened, exhibited, and collected internationally, including at the Museum of the Moving Image, Museum of Modern Art, BFI London Film Festival, New York Film Festival, FID Marseille, Montreal International Documentary Festival, Viennale, and DokuFest Kosovo. Their first feature film, Liahona, is distributed by Documentary Educational Resources and Doc Alliance.
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