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Fetishes (1996)

1h 24m

Running Time

September 12, 1996
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Fetishes (1996)

Name: Fetishes
Genre: Documentary
Released: 1996-09-12

1h 24m

Running Time

September 12, 1996
Release Date

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Plot.

Nick Broomfield and a documentary crew visit Pandora's Box, an up-scale house of bondage on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue, where clients pay $175 an hour to be subservient to mistresses. Mistresses talk about their craft; a few clients, usually masked, are interviewed as well. Then, the camera watches sessions organized around fetishes: rubber, wrestling, corporal punishment, masochism, and infantilism. Mistress Raven, the owner of Pandora's Box, explains that pain need not be part of the subservient experience: it is, at its root, a transfer of power. After their session has ended, clients talk about how drained, relaxed, relieved, and at peace they are.

Where to Watch.

Subs

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Cast & Crew.

Mistress Beatrice

Nick Broomfield

Himself / Director / Writer / Editor

Mistress Catherine

Mistress Delilah

Mistress Natasha

Mistress Raven

Elissa Wald

Jamie Muhoberac

Original Music Composer

Betty Burkhart

Editor

Christophe Lanzenberg

Director of Photography

Robert Levi

Director of Photography

Michele d'Acosta

Producer

Details.

Release Date
September 12, 1996

Status
Released

Running Time
1h 24m

Genres
Documentary

Last updated: 2025-02-11

This Movie Is About.

bondage

fetish

fetishism

manhattan, new york city

dominatrix

femdom

bdsm

Wiki.

Fetishes is a 1996 documentary by Nick Broomfield filmed at Pandora's Box, one of New York City's most luxurious SM/fetish parlours. The film contains interviews with professional dominatrices and their clients including the New York filmmaker Maria Beatty.

The documentary opens with black and white footage from an Irving Klaw film depicting models, including Bettie Page, wearing fetish attire. Nick Broomfield and his film crew then arrive at Pandora's Box on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue and are given a tour of the facility by Mistress Raven, including the dungeon and the medical room. The rest of the documentary consists of the following eight chapters:

Slaves

Mistresses

Rubber fetish

Wrestling fetish

Corporal punishment

Masochism

Infantilism

Socio-political fetishes

The film was produced in the United Kingdom and was originally made for HBO. It was released in the United States on DVD, (runtime 84 minutes, in colour), and more recently as part of Nick Broomfield's 'Documenting Icons' box set. A full, uncut version with additional archive material is also available in the UK.