Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures

Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures

The first feature length portrait of the controversial American artist Robert Mapplethorpe since his death from AIDS in 1989. His first solo exhibition in 1976 already unveils his subjects: flowers, portraits and nudes. Mapplethorpe quickly gains notoriety through his explicitly sexual photographs from the gay sadomasochistic scene as well as nude pictures of black men. The one thing more outrageous than Robert Mapplethorpe’s photographs was his life. Given unrestricted access to Mapplethorpe’s archives, the directors reveal a series of rediscovered, never before heard interviews. This is the unique portrait of an artist with a bold vision.

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Cinematography: Huy Truong, Mario Panagiotopoulos
Editing: Langdon F. Page
Music: David Benjamin Steinberg
Production: Film Manufacturers Inc., World of Wonder
Producers: Fenton Bailey, Randy Barbato, Katharina Otto-Bernstein, Mona Card
Format: Color
Production Country: USA
Production Year: 2016
Duration: 109
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Fenton Bailey

Filmography

(selected)
1997 Shantay (short)
2001 Out of the Closet, Off the Screen: The Life of William Haines
2005 Inside Deep Throat
2011 Becoming Chaz
2011 The Strange History of Don't Ask, Don't Tell
2016 Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures

Randy Barbato

Filmography

(selected)
1997 Shantay (short)
2001 Out of the Closet, Off the Screen: The Life of William Haines
2005 Inside Deep Throat
2011 Becoming Chaz
2011 The Strange History of Don't Ask, Don't Tell
2016 Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures