Director: James Bidgood
Running Time: 64 mins
Certificate: 18
Release Date: March 26th 2007 (DVD)
For decades nobody knew who directed Pink Narcissus. When it was first released in 1971 it was simply credited to Anonymous. Over the years this led to various conspiracy theories that suggested somebody famous was behind the film, such as Andy Warhol or a Hollywood bigwig who didn’t want to be associated with anything so blatantly homoerotic.
The mystery was resolved in 1999 when it was revealed to be the work of artist and photographer James Bidgood, who’d removed his name not because he wanted to hide his identity, but because he was angry the people financing the movie had taken it from him, re-edited it and finished it without his consent. [Read more…]