Fetishes (1996)
84 min
Nick Broomfield and a documentary crew visit Pandora's Box, an up-scale house of bondage on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue, where clients pay $175 an hour to be subservient to mistresses. Mistresses talk about their craft; a few clients, usually masked, are interviewed as well. Then, the camera watches sessions organized around fetishes: rubber, wrestling, corporal punishment, masochism, and infantilism. Mistress Raven, the owner of Pandora's Box, explains that pain need not be part of the subservient experience: it is, at its root, a transfer of power. After their session has ended, clients talk about how drained, relaxed, relieved, and at peace they are.
- Release date
- September 12, 1996
- Country of origin
- United States, United Kingdom
Cast
- Mistress Beatrice
- Nick Broomfield as Self - Interviewer
- Mistress Catherine
- Mistress Delilah
- Mistress Natasha
- Mistress Raven
- Elissa Wald as Self
- Elissa Wald as Client
Crew
- Nick Broomfield · Director
- Nick Broomfield · Writer
- Nick Broomfield · Producer
- Michele d'Acosta · Producer
- Jamie Muhoberac · Composer
- Christophe Lanzenberg · Cinematographer
- Nick Broomfield · Editor
- Betty Burkhart · Editor