Bijou (1972)

Compilation/Packaged Set: The Wakefield Poole Collection 1971-86

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This set (Main Set Entry) includes three of Wakefield Poole's gay erotic films of the 70s & 80s which predicted the modern gay erotic film industry. Poole is a dancer, choreographer, artist, and theatrical director. He became a pioneering film director in the gay pornography industry. His films feature, among others, Casey Donovan ((November 2, 1943 – August 10, 1987 of AIDS) and Bill Harrison, two of the best known porn stars of their time.
Feature films included in the set are:
• Boys in the Sand (1971)
• Bijou (1972)
• Boys in the Sand II (1986)
Also included in the set are short films and special features:
• Andy (a short commemorating Andy Warhol's first retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art, May 1971)
• Roger (a short of one of gay porn's early superstars masturbating against a black background and drum music)
• Freedom Day Parade ('home movies' of the 1974 San Francisco gay pride celebration)
• Godfathers of Porn (Jerry Douglas talks with Wakefield Poole)
Links:
• Wikipedia: Gay Pornography
• Wikipedia: Wakefield Poole
• Bright Lights Film Journal: Sex in Shangri-La
• Movie: I Always Said Yes: The Many Lives Of Wakefield Poole

Wakefield Poole’s second feature, the surreal and trippy Bijou, set a new standard for explicit cinema when it opened in 1972. The film concerns a construction worker (Bill Harrison) who witnesses a car accident and pockets the female victim’s purse in which he discovers her invitation to a club named Bijou. There he enters a strange erotic world where dark fatasies becomes reality. A fever dream blending the erotic and the divine in equal parts, Bijou is a psychosexual puzzle that rewards multiple viewings.

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