Palace of Pleasure (1967)

Country: Canada | Ar: 2.661 | Brrip

Description: A long-neglected classic of Canadian experimental cinema, a triumph of erotic art, a film about which Gene Youngblood once wrote, “See it and you’ll see a window on the future: a Joyce-Burroughs assemblage of bold, poetic surreal visions of physical love in every conceivable form.In 1967, John Hofsess released The Palace of Pleasure, a dual-screen therapeutic exploration of the erotic imagination. Intended as a trilogy, only the first two sequences were completed. The first part, Redpath 25, is a fantasy meeting between a young woman and her dream lover; the second part, Black Zero, is a macabre, ritual vision of sexual freedom and domestic life that haunts the mind long after the screen has darkened.

 

Redpath 25 (1966) + Black Zero (1967) |  imdb + imdb 
with Commentary by film preservationist Stephen Broomer

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1.04GB | 38:14mins | 1892×716 | mkv | English + Commentary (2nd track)
https://tezfiles.com/file/ac8013773edeb/Redpath25.BlackZero.mkv

 

My Secret Life (1969) /The Columbus of Sex  |  imdb
a speculative reconstruction, an exploration of Hofsess’s lost feature film

775MB | 26:27mins | 1852×696 | mkv | English
https://tezfiles.com/file/37766ce0994b1/My.Secret.Life.1969.mkv

 

Resurrection of the Body (2019)  |  imdb
A speculative sequel to Hofsess’s film

1.36GB | 36:43mins | 1920×724 | mkv | English
https://tezfiles.com/file/483a5c8eb1311/Resurrection.of.the.Body.2019.mkv

 

The Looking Cure, a video essay by Broomer on Hofsess’s concept of ‘cinematherapy’

472MB | 18:43mins | 1690×720 | mkv | English
https://tezfiles.com/file/c5723935d77a4/The.Looking.Cure.Hofsess.mkv