The Gates of Gomorrah

The Gates of Gomorrah

A video portrait of photographer Charles Gatewood

2002 · 20 min · Documentary

Shutters click in this clothes-dropping exhibition of photographic exposures sure to quicken the pulse of those in need of extremity expansion. The voice of artistic reason rises above orgiastic visuals that splash across the pages of glue-bound volumes oozing with sticky subjects of a carnal persuasion. Come and rejoice in the mayhem and frivolity that only Eros unchained can deliver. The soiled and the damned live again on the glossy pages of glue-bound tabloids ticketed for hell and beyond. Witness the innocent and the fun-loving as they become documented fodder for light sensitive materials too hot to handle. Get down and dirty with a deluge of messy mischief destined to flood your libido with a backwash of coffee table books that will titillate and terrify. Meet the man behind the mayhem and marvel at the clarity of it all. It’s also a cake-bashing, birthday celebration.

Directed by George Kuchar

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