Kirby Dick - Sick: The Life and Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist (1997)

Internationally famous as "that guy who nails his dick to a board," Los Angeles writer and artist Bob Flanagan created performances with Sheree Rose that shocked and inspired audiences from Seattle to Boston to Berlin. Combining text, video, and live performance Flanagan created a highly personal but universal exploration of childhood, sex, illness and mortality. A documentary film about his life, Sick: The Life and Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist , made with Sheree Rose and Kirby Dick, won the Sundance Special Jury Prize in 1997.





Most of us were spanked as children. Bob Flanagan has been getting spanked most every night of the week for the past 25 odd years, often with leather whips and chains. Why? Because Bob is what you might call a super-sadomasochist. Bob was born with cystic fibrosis, a condition that leaves the victim's lungs filling with mucus and causes multiple breathing problems. Most with CF live only into childhood or the early twenties. Flanagan beat the odds and made it past the age of forty with the help of his life partner/dominatrix Sheree Rose, whom he made a life long commitment to as her slave, and his obsession with S&M. Producer/director Kirby Dick's Sick follows Bob through his struggles with his disease and obsession with mutilating his own body. Along the way we're privy to his private home videos (including interviews with his mother, father, and brother), Flanagan meeting a fellow CF sufferer through the Make-A-Wish Foundation, and his eventual, documented death in 1996. As Bob's parents, friends, and relatives are interviewed we find out what makes a man who likes to get pooped on tick—Sick is living proof that one man's breaking point is another man's pleasure palace.





"Sarah's Sick Too" catches up with Sarah (the Make-A-Wish girl in the film) who was supposed to die at 25. She's now 26, married and continues to be healthy (or, as healthy as you can be with cystic fibrosis).




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