American Mary 2013
A young medical student struggling to pay tuition is drawn into the shady world of underground body-modification.
A young medical student struggling to pay tuition is drawn into the shady world of underground body-modification.
A man forced to bear power and stripped of humanity. A woman skeptical of happiness. Takeshi Hongo, an Augmentation made by SHOCKER, and Ruriko Midorikawa, a rebel of the organization, escape while fighting off assassins. What’s justice? What’s evil? Will this violence end? Despite his power, Hongo tries to remain human. Along with freedom, Ruriko has regained a heart. What paths will they choose?
While alone in a nightclub, straight-laced Lui meets sensitive but troubled punk kid Ama. Mesmerized by his split tongue, she becomes obsessed with body modification and soon wants the same treatment. After Ama's heavily-tattooed friend Shiba pierces her tongue, Lui finds herself inexorably drawn to both men – and to her growing list of desires, she now adds a tattoo.
Following an end-of-term school ceremony, the American boy Bobby decides to go with his friend Akkun into the mountains outside their village, to a place perfect for a secret base. On the way they stop into a mysterious amusement park. They have fun there, but are attacked and cannot leave. Falling in with some other children who are also lost there, they fend off a number of attacks, and gradually learn the truth behind the facility.
Katia, a young Polish woman adrift in London, meets Bob, an American tattoo artist. Katia is drawn to his mysterious aura and the taboo culture of body modification, but Bob has a dark, secret desire to leave his mark on the world and little does Katia know that her fascination with him will put her life in danger.
In a room there's a man with zippers all over his body, which he uses as pockets to store various surprising items. When a mouse accidentally gets "under his skin", the hunt is on!
A spiral of dreams and ages unravel as two celestial characters awaken and transmutate into a mythological being.
A look into the world of body piercing and suspension and the people who do it.
A documentary about the practice of piercing and body modification in western cultures.
After a feverish dream, a paralysed dreamer finds themselves trapped within a purgatory of their sleep, as they begin to fuse with their bed. The purgatory begins to refract the dreamers mind, as they are confronted with multiple incarnations of themselves struggling to awake. Bed & Breakfast is inspired by the neurodivergent experience of procrastination, and inertia. Questioning the nature of memory, identity, and the fabric of reality, by plunging you into the psyche of a paralysed dreamer where reality is far repressed.
A documentary about extreme body modification implant artist, Steve Haworth. Through painful surgery and suspension from hooks, he does more with naked skin than a mere tattoo or piercing.
Robert Mapplethorpe gets his nipple pierced while his boyfriend lends his support in person. Patti Smith lends her support via voice over as she rambles on about her childhood, her transvestite brother, her breasts and Bob Dylan?
A struggling athlete gets a one-time chance to regain his self-respect in the underground boxing scene, attempting to fight an arrogant opponent before a terrible accident changes everything.
Every evening, Brindone, a teenager, goes to bed before the end of the TV programs. Every evening, instead of going to bed discreetly, his big brother Musclor turns on the light in their shared bedroom to annoy him. Every evening the same routine. Brindone can't take it anymore.
A collection of footage and interviews with strange people and their exploration into the unusual and extreme side of body modification.
Vogue Williams hosts the ultimate 'try before you buy' for people seriously considering cosmetic surgery, as they see what they could look like before making a life-changing decision