Bonds (2018)
Genre : Documentary
Runtime : 11M
Director : Dani Tardif
Synopsis
«Bonds» is an experiment between two creatures who explores the bonds that ties them together through bondage. It explores how queer intimacy, consent and eroticism intersects with power play, the relation to the camera and d.i.y feminist filmmaking.
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