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English. Sick: The Life and Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist is a 1997 documentary film directed by Kirby Dick about Bob Flanagan, a Los Angeles writer, poet, performance artist, comic, and BDSM celebrity, who had and later died of cystic fibrosis. The film premiered at the 1997 Sundance Film Festival, where it was awarded a Special Jury ...
- Blake Leyh
- January 1997 (Sundance Film Festival)
Mr. Flanagan's work was the subject of a disturbing exhibition at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in SoHo in the fall of 1994. Mr. Flanagan was born in New York City on Dec. 26, 1952, and grew ...
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Flanagan was born in New York City on December 26, 1952, and grew up in Costa Mesa, California, with his mother, Kathy; father, Robert; brothers John and Tim; and sister, Patricia. In childhood, Flanagan was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis. His sister, Patricia, died at age 21 of the same illness, which also claimed the life of second sister ...
- American
- January 4, 1996 (aged 43), Long Beach, California
- December 26, 1952, New York City
- Mount Sinai Memorial Park Cemetery
Apr 28, 2023 · Director Kirby Dick examines how Flanagan began routinely maiming his own body to deal with and overcome the acute physical pain he felt every day. Flanagan’s self-torturing habits are the basis for his avant-garde live performances, which are featured prominently in the film. Dick also explores Flanagan’s unusual romance with a dominatrix.
- 90 min
Dec 5, 1997 · This bare outline makes Rose seem like a monster, but the reality was much, much more complicated. Years earlier, in 1982, Flanagan had signed a contract giving Rose "total control over my mind and body." They had a sadomasochistic relationship lasting 15 years. At the end she was not being cruel, so much as expressing her fear of losing him. It sounds cruel because she speaks in the terms ...
Feb 9, 1997 · Undoubtedly the most wildly original and audacious documentary in this year's Sundance Film Festival, Kirby Dick's "Sick: The Life and Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist" is an uncompromising ...
Nov 21, 1997 · Born in 1952, Bob Flanagan grew up with cystic fibrosis, the debilitating lung ailment that kills most of its victims by their teens or early 20s. As if that weren’t burden enough, the illness ...
