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In 1990, DeBlase’s post-earthquake Drummer began featuring, review-
ing, advertising, and selling our six “sex-education” films with enthusiasm.
These S&M video features were not fiction. They were “Reality TV.” Each
of the six was an American verite documentary of real European leathermen
exhibiting themselves in real Art Brut scenes. That kind of intercontinental
blood transfusion in an age of AIDS enlivened the shaken, ailing Drummer.
DeBlase chose one of the color photographs I shot for LeGrand and Earl
in the iconic Argos Bar, Amsterdam, for the cover of the “Drummer Super
Publication,” Mach 20, April 1990. Ten other of my Argos photos appeared
on pages 41-45.
Bound for Europe
The Six “Reality TV” Video Series of Extreme BDSM
Directed by Roger Earl, Produced by Terry LeGrand of
Marathon Films
Cinematography by Jack Fritscher and Mark Hemry of
Palm Drive Video
Production Date: June-July 1989
Released serially: 1990-1994
1. Argos: The Sessions shot in Amsterdam
2. Fit to Be Tied shot in Hamburg
3. Marks of Pleasure shot in Dusseldorf
4. The Knast shot in West Berlin
5. The Berlin Connection shot in West Berlin
6. Loose Ends of the Rope shot in Hamburg,
Dusseldorf, and West Berlin
After Amsterdam, the British painter, David Pearce, had to be called in
to become our translator and still photographer because Mark Hemry and
I told LeGrand and Earl that it was too much to expect us two to do three
things at once: shoot the two High-8 video cameras as well as the 35mm
still camera for publicity photographs. When LeGrand introduced us three,
Pearce’s first words were his unforgettable pick-up line: “Are you two the
gentlemen I was expecting?” David Pearce became our intimate pal while
shooting together in dungeons in Hamburg, Dusseldorf, and West Berlin.
Six months later, in 1990, he flew from London to San Francisco because
he wanted to capture the anxiety and risk he saw around me as an author,
made naked to the world, he said, by the first publication of Some Dance
to Remember: A Memoir-Novel of San Francisco 1970-1982. He decided to
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