For one weekend only, Fetish Film Forum pops up at FACETS for a special sci-fi/horror edition exploring queer, trans, and kink themes in the films of David Cronenberg to kick off Pride Month. 

David Cronenberg is often credited as the creator of the body horror subgenre as we know it today. (That’s right: Cronenberg is daddy!) He doesn’t use the term “body horror” to describe his own work, preferring to think of it as “inner beauty,” an expression that reflects positivity in his explorations of sexual relationships and body transformations that present biological sex as complex and malleable. 

Fetish Film Forum: Cronenberg Edition explores queer, trans, and kink themes in five films across the director’s filmography, screening in reverse chronological order, beginning with Crimes of the Future (2022) and its resurrection of beloved motifs that launched the famed director’s career; continuing with Crash (1996), Videodrome (1983), and Rabid (1977); and ending with his first widely released feature, the orgiastic and radically queer Shivers (1975). 

The Cronenberg Edition of Fetish Film Forum is programmed by John McDevitt, FACETS Community Engagement Manager, and Naomi Vaughan, FACETS Customer Service Representative. 

LIMITED EDITION BUTTONS 

3 limited edition pinback buttons designed by Bill Van Ryn of Drive-In Asylum will be available for purchase at these screenings, or you can buy a Series Pass and receive all 3 buttons for free! 

PRESENTED IN PARTNERSHIP 

This series is presented in partnership with Chicago’s Leather Archives & Museum and is an extension of Fetish Film Forum, a screening series exploring various points of view on the sexual practice and art of fetish and kink, bondage and discipline, dominance and submission, sadism and masochism. Cinema is a fetish for the moving image, a form of roleplay for the actors, and an experience of voyeurism for the viewer, and Fetish Film Forum celebrates the power of film to realize humanity’s innermost desires. 

10% of all net ticket proceeds will be donated to the Leather Archives & Museum, whose mission is to make leather, kink, fetish, and BDSM accessible through research, preservation, education, and community engagement.

SPONSORED BY

This event is made possible by Howard Brown Health.