Released | May 31st, 2005 |
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Running Time | 82 |
Company | GM Video |
Critical Rating | Not Yet Rated |
Genre | Alternative |
This is a reasonably enjoyable if rather amateurishly shot "documentary" of the 2004 Folsom Street Festival in San Francisco. The Folsom Street Festival is one of the most debauched and enjoyable public celebrations of alternate sexual lifestyles and practices around. For a couple of days each year, leather, nudity, whips, chains, human horses and public masturbation are the norm on Folsom Street. It's a festival that just asks for a well-done documentary.
This is not that documentary. Barely qualifying as a "documentary" in that it documents activities occurring at the festival, in actuality, this is just a glorified home video, with a home video's poor sound. It is a bit fun in that its amateurishness helps to convey the feel that the cameraman was just happy to be there surrounded by leather, latex and skin, like a kid at Disneyworld; a tone that a more polished vid might have lost. You get a feel for the Festival, but you don't really learn anything or gain information that a true documentary would provide.