Movie Night: 'A Body To Live In' (Body Mod Documentary)

Movie Night: A Body To Live In

A documentary about body modification, BDSM performance art, and Fakir Musafar is playing at Music Box Theatre. Let's gear up and go!

• Time/location: Wednesday 4/22 at 9:30pm. Music Box Theatre address is 3733 N. Southport Ave, Chicago IL, 60613
• Recommended arrival time: 9pm (to meet in lobby and secure seats as a group)
• Ticket reservation: Buy in advance via their website.

The event is open to the public, and we encourage people to show up in visible gear, body mods, and CHC colors (if applicable). Please balance being your sexy selves with the fact that it's a public venue. 

Film trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cSCvOkuZsw

Film description: 

A BODY TO LIVE IN offers an uncompromising look at the rise of BDSM performance art, body modification and the ‘modern primitives’ cultural movement through the agonies and ecstasies of transgressive artist Fakir Musafar and the communities that surrounded him. Blending rare archival footage with the voices of queer and artistic trailblazers, the film shows how pain, ritual, and transformation became tools of identity, survival, and self-expression. Weaving from early experiments and secret gatherings to the emergence of a global subculture shaped by the AIDS crisis and spiritual reinvention, Director Angelo Madsen (NORTH BY CURRENT) reveals not just the story of one artist, but a collective history of bodies in revolt - asking what it truly means to live freely in one’s own skin.