Fetishes (1996)
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.
Director: Nick Broomfield
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Mistress Beatrice as |
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Nick Broomfield as Himself |
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Mistress Catherine as |
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Mistress Delilah as |
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Mistress Natasha as |
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Mistress Raven as |
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Elissa Wald as |
| Sound | Jamie Muhoberac | Original Music Composer |
| Writing | Nick Broomfield | Writer |
| Editing | Betty Burkhart | Editor |
| Editing | Nick Broomfield | Editor |
| Directing | Nick Broomfield | Director |
| Camera | Christophe Lanzenberg | Director of Photography |
| Camera | Robert Levi | Director of Photography |