Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures
The only thing more outrageous than the great artist Robert Mapplethorpe's photographs was his life. Born in a suburb of New York, he began to take highly aesthetic images of sexually excited men in his mid twenties. It is the era of Andy Warhol’s Factory and a new dawn of hedonistic sexuality. In MAPPLETHORPE: LOOK AT THE PICTURES, the well-known homosexual tells without shame about the passions that influenced his art. Intimate recollections by those who knew him cast additional, sometimes critical, light on the biography of an artist whose provocative subject matter begged the question as to where art ends and pornography begins. Filmmakers Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato receive unprecedented access to previously unpublished archive material and shine a new light on a key figure of 20th century photography.
- Genre: DOC: Portrait
- Country, Year: USA, 2016
- Runtime: 109 Min
- Languages: English
- Subtitles: German
- Directors: Fenton Bailey, Randy Barbato
- Cast: Robert Mapplethorpe, Edward Mapplethorpe, Fran Lebowitz, Brice Marden, Debbie Harry, Ken Moody, Robert Sherman, Gloria von Thurn und Taxis, Carolina Herrera, Brooke Shields
- Cinematography: Huy Truong, Mario Panagiotopoulos
- Editor: Langdon F. Page
- Music: David Benjamin Steinberg
- Producers: Fenton Bailey, Randy Barbato, Katharina Otto-Bernstein, Mona Card, Sheila Nevins
- Production Company: Film Manufacturers Inc.
- World Sales: Dogwoof
- Swiss Distribution: Cineworx Filmverleih GmbH
- www.mapplethorpefilm.com
