Nick Broomfield and a documentary crew visit Pandora's Box, an up-scale house of bondage on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue, where clients pay $175 an hour to be subservient to mistresses. Mistresses talk about their craft; a few clients, usually masked, are interviewed as well. Then, the camera watches sessions organized around fetishes: rubber, wrestling, corporal punishment, masochism, and infantilism. Mistress Raven, the owner of Pandora's Box, explains that pain need not be part of the subservient experience: it is, at its root, a transfer of power. After their session has ended, clients talk about how drained, relaxed, relieved, and at peace they are.
Unfortunately the movie Fetishes is not yet available on HBO Max.
Directing | Nick Broomfield | Director |
Sound | Jamie Muhoberac | Original Music Composer |
Editing | Nick Broomfield | Editor |
Writing | Nick Broomfield | Writer |
Editing | Betty Burkhart | Editor |
Camera | Christophe Lanzenberg | Director of Photography |
Camera | Robert Levi | Director of Photography |