Folsom Street
2015 · 6m · Estados Unidos
Directed by Aron Kantor
Genres: experimental, LGBTQ+, musical
Tones: dark, sensual, theatrical
Inspired by the gay leather and S&M world of the 1970s and the universe of choreographer Bob Fosse, a Leather Daddy enters a dungeon to unleash a sexually charged dance.
Picked by Margot
The scouts
Everyone expects a film about leather daddies and S&M to either apologize for itself or lean into shock value—Kantor does neither, which is refreshing, but the Fosse homage feels a bit too reverent for me; I wanted the film to *argue* with its influences, not genuflect to them.
This is exactly the kind of film that understands its lineage—Fosse's formal grammar applied to queer subcultural material with real rigor—and the 6-minute structure shows absolute control, letting dance and shadow do the heavy lifting where lesser filmmakers would overexplain.
The decision to let the body and the dungeon itself become the primary narrative, trusting movement and spatial design instead of dialogue or exposition, is the move that sells it; that restraint is what makes the sensuality land rather than feel exploitative.