Amateur filmmaker Peter de Rome first started shooting 8mm films in 1965. Over the next decade he produced a collection of painstakingly crafted, atmospheric sexual scenarios which transcended their humble origins. Sexual consummation is rarely the subject of a de Rome film. Instead, the full experience of intimacy – the longing, the pursuit, the passion, the afterglow, and in some cases, the aftermath – occupies the frame.

The eight short films in the series take the viewer on an immersive sexual expedition designed to do more than simply titillate, producing one of the greatest cinematic examples of the intersection of artistry and eroticism.

Special Features:

• Fragments: The Incomplete Films of Peter de Rome (Ethan Reid, 2011): Revealing new documentary in which Peter de Rome discusses his many incomplete and unfinished films

• The Fire Island Kids (Peter de Rome, 1970, 12 mins): two men spend a lazy day in each other’s company after one rescues the other from drowning

• Moulage (Peter de Rome, 1971, 10 mins): humour and art collide in this short film about erotic body casts

• Brown Study (Peter de Rome, 1979, 8 mins): faux-ethnographic study in which a man pleasures himself

• Abracadaver! (Nathan Schiff, 2008, 20 mins): a gruesome tale of magic and mutilation from producer David McGillivary, starring Peter de Rome

• Fully illustrated booklet with new essays, film credits and original promotional materials