{"id":19887,"date":"2016-02-16T13:50:32","date_gmt":"2016-02-16T13:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pinkmince.com\/mood\/2016\/02\/16\/leather-narcissus-1967-usa-avery-willard-dir\/"},"modified":"2024-11-27T17:41:23","modified_gmt":"2024-11-27T22:41:23","slug":"leather-narcissus-1967-usa-avery-willard-dir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2016\/02\/16\/leather-narcissus-1967-usa-avery-willard-dir\/","title":{"rendered":"Leather Narcissus (1967, USA, Avery Willard, dir. 28mins)"},"content":{"rendered":"

[Originally posted to thecuntoftheminotaur.tumblr.com]<\/p>\n

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This film has been very difficult to find. Previously, Inventaire<\/a>\u00a0mentioned it was remastered by a company called<\/span>\u00a0to DCP, and he also posted an excerpt<\/a>\u00a0of the director\u2019s previous leather manifesto. What I have uncovered this film seems to retell the classical myth of Narcissus by recasting the boy who fell in love with his own image as an archetypal Leatherman, played here by a man named only as Fernando.<\/p>\n

Narcissus is an important myth for homosexuality because it recounts a conceit in homosexual desire to direct one\u2019s attention not at the opposite gender \u2013 and by extension, reproducing \u2014 but towards one\u2019s own self. This lust most often takes either an auto-erotic form or seeks it\u2019s own specular reflection. Without the need to bestow and diversify one\u2019s genes, it seems the narcissus is content in admiring his own.<\/p>\n

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From what bits I have found there appears to be a scene where this narcissus walks around Manhattan in full butch drag<\/a>. He stares into himself through a metallic butterfly ball\u00a0oblivious to the dangers of the city around him. Caught by beauty, it\u2019s an abyssal image; a man made so simple as to be entrapped by his own skewed \u2014 but ultimately recognizable \u2014 image.<\/p>\n

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I found two scenes for the film which were included in a compilation tape called White Hanky (don\u2019t look it up, it means masturbation). This is a common practice in porn, especially when studios fold and sell their assets to other companies who then re-release or compile the new footage. It\u2019s also common for erotic films from this era to depict solitary or masturbatory acts. Hardcore penetration, especially anal, doesn\u2019t really appear until the \u201870s. This suggests that these are the only two pornographic scenes in the film.<\/p>\n

In the\u00a0ABOVE SCENE<\/a> Fernando takes his motorcycle as his object of sexual gratification. It\u2019s the earliest Bike \u2018Bate scene I\u2019ve encountered. Most of those happen in the early-mid-70s before they largely disappear in favour of penetration scenes. I suggest you don\u2019t watch it to be aroused.<\/p>\n

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Above is a still from THIS VIDEO<\/a>\u00a0which is probably\u00a0the climax of the film. Some really interesting cross-dissolves and in camera tricks circumvent the era\u2019s propriety values and imply oral sex and same-sex kissing. Then he masturbates via a mirror onto his own image while complementing himself, basically.<\/p>\n

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The above image may or may not be part of the film. No other corroborating evidence has been found. It could be a scene depicting a sex act, it could be a narrative scene like the aforementioned Butterfly Ball sequence or it could be a result of a misnamed Google search.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s unclear how faithfully Avery Willard follows the myth. He seems to be more concerned with Narcissus in the act of loving himself and not the heart-spurning or suiciding sides of that story. There doesn\u2019t seem to be an Echo and a Nemesis character who are causally important to the story, but in this context I would question if that really matters.<\/p>\n

Just over 15 minutes of the film still remains to be seen, including\u00a0THIS<\/a>\u00a0wonderfully shot double-exposure sequence I first found on a trailer tape.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[Originally posted to thecuntoftheminotaur.tumblr.com] This film has been very difficult to find. Previously, Inventaire\u00a0mentioned it was remastered by a company called\u00a0to DCP, and he also posted an excerpt\u00a0of the director\u2019s previous leather manifesto. What I have uncovered this film seems to retell the classical myth of Narcissus by recasting the boy who fell in love … Continue reading “Leather Narcissus (1967, USA, Avery Willard, dir. 28mins)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ultragay","category-ultrahistorical"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19887"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71371,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19887\/revisions\/71371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}