The Final Member
New Video (2012)
Documentary, Queer Themes/Interest
In Collection
#1876
8*
Seen ItYes
(11/1/2019 Home)
025192233715
IMDB   6.5
90 mins Iceland / English
DVD 
Páll Arason Himself
Ásbjörn Björgvinsson Himself
Hannes Blöndal Himself
Marci Bowers Herself
Terry Gunnel Himself
Petur Halldoresson Himself
Sin Hastings Himself
Reynir Hjartarson Himself
Sigurður Hjartarson Himself
Paula-Jo Husack Herself
Helgi Héðinsson Himself
Ari Karlsson Himself
Douglas Mason Himself
Tom Mitchell Himself
Mitchell B. Morris Himself
Emilia Carla Pace Herself
Pétur Pétursson Himself
Jóna Sigurðardóttir Herself
Lilja Sigurðardóttir Herself
Thorgerdur Sigurðardóttir Herself
Hjörtur Sigurðsson Himself
Shahar Tsabari Himself
Director
Jonah Bekhor
Zach Math
Producer Jonah Bekhor
Zach Math
Cinematography Sean Stiegemeier
Viggo Knudsen
Music Rob Simonsen

Thirty miles from the Arctic Circle, in the northern Icelandic town of Husavik, stands the Icelandic Phallological Museum - the world's only Penis museum. Over 40 years, the founder and curator has collected every specimen from every mammal except for one elusive penis needed to complete his collection: The Human Specimen. The film follows the curator's incredible, sublimely comic, often shocking quest to complete his eccentric collection, and the two intrepid men who have raised their hands to be the first human
Edition Details
Release Date 2014
No. of Discs/Tapes 1
Personal Details
Purchase Date 10/3/2019
Location Personal Library
Owner Deitz
Store Amazon.com
Purchase Price $17.99
Condition New
Order Order Number: 112-4585033-5305851
Tags penis, Ravens
Links IMDB
TheMovieDb.org
+8 Review: QueerGuru (Roger Walker-Dack November 19th, 2013)
References
QueerGuru Rating 8
Viewing Priority 3 High

Notes
I was really surprised by The Final Member. I ordered it largely out of prurient interest. What would inspire someone from the tiny country of Iceland (population of 360,000) to establish a penis museum with the goal of displaying a sample of every mammalian penis on earth. And why would a couple of directors, Jonah Bekhor and Zach Math, decide to do a documentary about it? Museum founder and curator "Siggi" Hjartarson is nearing the end of his life, and his goal is nearly complete. He yet is missing one important specimen, that of homo sapiens. This in itself is surprising, given a world population of 7.7 billion, roughly half of which have a phallus. But apparently we males are reluctant to give up our manhood, even in death.
As the story develops, two donors emerge. One an elderly man well known in Iceland for the size of his member, and respected as a womanizer (he kept a lifelong diary of his encounters, some of whom appear in the film); he has agreed to make the donation posthumously. But he is not dying and as he ages the size of his penis is shrinking; it may not stay large enough to meet the minimum size standard established by Siggi. And a man in America who would have his penis and genitals removed surgically while still living; he however, has many conditions to which Siggi is reluctant to agree.
All of which is a setup for a weird drama, a cast of eccentrics, and a very engrossing film.
I loved it.