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Doors 2:30 p.m.; Event 3 p.m.
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THE EXPERIENCE

Join us for a screening of A Body to Live In followed by a post-film conversation with director Angelo Madsen Minax. This intimate and visually inventive documentary explores the life and legacy of Fakir Musafar, a central figure in the queer body-modification community and the development of the “Modern Primitive” movement.

Following the film, Director Angelo Madsen Minax will join us for a Q&A. 

ON SCREEN: A Body to Live In

2025. Directed by Angelo Madsen Minax. Runtime: 1 hour 38 minutes. 

An intimate inquiry into the life and work of Fakir Musafar, an influential figure in the queer body-modification community. The film explores his outsized impact and the formation of the “Modern Primitive” movement through decades of archives and interviews with those close to him. Creative treatment of the archives presents them as living texts—photos and video are layered, inverted, and interpolated to bring them new meaning and texture. Angelo Madsen’s sophomore feature is supplemented by seamlessly interwoven personal accounts to craft an portrayal that is loving yet not afraid of critique, embracing both the joy of self-discovery as well as the complex spirituality Musafar came to represent. Through his life and work, the film gives rise to profound questions of bodily autonomy and the body’s relationship to our sense of self.