Sick: The Life and Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist DVD
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Film Details
Directed by Kirby Dick
Produced in 1997
Main Language - English
Countries & Regions - American film
Cast
Bob Flanagan
Genres
Contemporary Film • Biographical Documentaries • Other Documentaries • Stage
Film Description
Bob Flanagan was an American performance artist, stand-up comic, poet and lifelong sufferer from cystic fibrosis. He was also a masochist who found that his S&M experiences helped him manage the pain of his illness. Kirby Dick’s internationally acclaimed, award-winning documentary follows Flanagan and his dominatrix partner, Sheree Rose, through the last years of Flanagan's life. It is a deeply moving, often hilarious profile of a unique artist, giving an insight into Flanagan's warmth, courage and sense of humour.
Originally, three-and-a-half minutes were cut from ‘two scenes showing strong sadomasochistic
activity ... which,’ according to the BBFC, ‘would be highly dangerous if copied’. After a recent
resubmission to the Board, these cuts have since been reinstated.
Sick is a deeply moving, often hilarious, profile of a unique artist, giving an insight into Flanagan’s
warmth, courage and, especially, his sense of humour.
DVD Details
Certificate: 18
Publisher: BFI
Length: 90 mins
Region: 2
Cat No: BFIVD877
Format: DVD Colour
DVD Extras
- Presented fully uncut and uncensored for the first time
- Dick on Sick (Kirby Dick, 1997, 8 mins): the director reflects on his experience of making Sick
- Sara’s Sick Too (Kirby Dick, 15 mins): short film revisiting Sara, a fellow cystic fibrosis sufferer who meets Bob through the Make-A-Wish Foundation in Sick
- Feature length audio commentary by Kirby Dick and editor Dody Doran
- Live performances with director introductions
- Deleted scenes with director introductions
- Original soundtrack
- Original trailer
- Illustrated booklet featuring new essays from Patricia MacCormack (author of Cinesexuality) and Murray Perkins, Senior Examiner at the BBFC
- biographies and credits.
