Rick Castro

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The Advocate for Fagdom
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The Advocate for Fagdom unites the puzzle pieces one by one. Testimonies are combined with rare archive images. Art galeries present movie extracts that are succeeded by images shot on location. And the other way round. Writers, film makers, art galeries owners, actors and actresses, photographers, producers, friends and loved ones all join in a game of interpretation, analysis or simple anecdotes. John Waters, Bruce Benderson, Harmony Korine, Gus Van Sant, Richard Kern, Rick Castro and others deliver their impressions, theories and confessions. Everything blends into the fascinating portrait of a singular person blessed with singular talents. A complex personality at war not with a system but all systems. The portrait of a man constantly moving between his punk attitude and extreme sensibility.
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Queercore: Quand les gays embrassent le punk
6.8
Plongée dans l’univers déjanté du queercore, un mouvement punk qui dans les années 1980 et 1990 a renversé les codes de genre. À son origine, les Canadiens Bruce LaBruce et G. B. Jones, respectivement gay et lesbienne... Dans les années 1980 et 1990, un mouvement underground venu d’Amérique du Nord plonge dans tous les excès : le queercore. Avec ses fanzines, ses spectacles punk déglingués et ses pornos expérimentaux, ce mouvement plein d’humour et d’irrévérence centré sur l’identité queer a dessiné une troisième voie entre un mouvement LGBT plutôt sage et une scène punk largement masculine, hétéro, voire aux tendances homophobes. À son origine, les Canadiens Bruce LaBruce et G. B. Jones, respectivement gay et lesbienne. Le premier est aujourd’hui un artiste reconnu, à qui le MoMA a consacré une rétrospective en 2015.
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Raw! Uncut! Video!
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Raw! Uncut! Video!

Apr 08, 2021
RAW! UNCUT! VIDEO! chronicles the rise and fall of homegrown gay porn studio Palm Drive Video, and explores how a devoted couple helped battle a devastating health crisis by promoting kinky sex.
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Antebellum
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Antebellum

Jan 12, 2022
Yearly short videos depicting the aesthetics, artists, talents, sights & sounds of Rick Castro’s legendary fetish art gallery Antebellum Hollywood from 2013 thru 2016. Antebellum Gallery existed from 2005~ 2017 in the heart of historic Hollywood on Las Palmas Avenue. Owner & curator Rick Castro presented fetish as art on a monthly basis for a group of like-minded enthusiasts who he lovingly referred to as “Antebellians.” During Antebellum’s reign, Rick saw the times as a 21st century pre-war era, a time of cultural strife between social freedoms and the religious right culminating in a bad reality TV millionaire becoming dictator. The Antebellum era, like the Weimar era are historic short bursts of creative experimentation and freedoms existing under a looming dark cloud of things to come.
Plushies & Furries
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Plushies & Furries

Aug 24, 2002
If dressing up as an animal and getting off with a friend is your thing, you're not alone. You're a Furry and there are 20,000 of you that get together on the internet through chat rooms, and at several conferences across the country. This film explores that phenomena.
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