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By
Giacomo Tramontagna
45 Minutes of Bondage
Rating: 2 Stars
Produced, photographed, and directed by Rick
Castro. Edited by Dan Krisher and Michele Mills.
Music by Glen Meadmore. Starring Conan, Stu
Blake, Velvet, and Alex Austin.
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Photographer/filmmaker Rick Castro is best known for co-directing (with Bruce LaBruce) the abrasively funny queerpunk
movie Hustler White, and for his documentation of the leather scene. His photographs have turned up
here and there, most often in the The Bondage
Book, a leather/SM 'zine. Interesting as underground film, worth viewing as gay historical flotsam, this four-part kinky melange has minimal value as porn. In the opening segment,
biker Conan shows off tattoos, scars, and scabs as he plays with his big, floppy cock. Then Stu Blake demonstrates ways of wriggling out of bondage set-ups. In a visually striking sepia-toned sequence, black model Velvet
appears in various poses with snow-white ropes, bandages, and tape restraining his dark, burnished body. Finally, after cowboy exhibitionist Alex Austin jerks off in the desert, he's tied spread-eagled on the parched, cracked ground
and abandoned. 45 Minutes of Bondage dates back to 1995. Its sibling,
Another 45 Minutes of Bondage (which, for the record, runs 54 minutes), was made in 1998. Both films were first released in VHS format in 1999, and
have now become available on no-frills DVDs.
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