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Rubbings from a Live Man
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| Film Title: | Rubbings from a Live Man |
| Director(s): | Florian Habicht |
| Category: | Documentary |
| Subject: | Gay |
| Country: | New Zealand |
| Language: | English |
| Subtitles: | no |
| Year: | 2008 |
| Format: | 35mm |
| Run Time: | 75 |
Description:
In Rubbings From a Live Man, director Florian Habicht crafts a flamboyant, tour-de-force exploration of the life and times of the incomparable Warwick Broadhead. Broadhead's career as a performing artist and director has spanned the events of four decades-from marrying his house in Grey Lynn, to performing majestic shows in various churches, abandoned buildings and gardens. Until now, he has never allowed his work to be recorded.
In this hybrid documentary, Habicht culls Broadhead's various gender-bending alter-egos and vignettes, the two men revisiting Broadhead's 1950's childhood home in Kiwi suburbia; the artist's wildly ecstatic 1960s with San Francisco's Angels of Light, and his residual trauma, exaltation and grief. Through it all, Habicht searches for the soul of his subject and explores the cultures that forged him.
A unique collaboration between two of New Zealand's most original artists, Rubbings from a Live Manis a testament to one man's ability to challenge his existence by performing it anew.
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