Fetishes
1996•1h 24m•5.9•Released
Documentary
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.
Director
Nick Broomfield
Writer
Nick Broomfield
Languages
English
Cast
Mistress Beatrice
Nick Broomfield
Himself
Mistress Catherine
Mistress Delilah
Mistress Natasha
Mistress Raven
Elissa Wald
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