Narrow Rooms teams up with Folsom Street East in September to present a program of documentary shorts about men exploring what it means to live their fullest, kinkiest lives. These films balance the whimsy and joy of the fetish lifestyle with provocative questions about masculinity, politics, desire and relationships.

Sterling Hampton IV’s MERMAN is a portrait of a Black leather title holder in Los Angeles who finds freedom in both leather gear and a mermaid tail. THE HANDYMAN is an erotically-charged music video for a little-known C+C Music Factory song starring Brazilian director Fabio Leal’s current erotic obsession: his handyman. In THE EDDIES, director Angelo Madsen Minax cruises secret flood tunnels in Memphis by day, but spends his nights cruising Craigslist looking for men for a uniquely American type of fetish porn scene. NYC based kink party organizer and artist Peter Cage’s BREAKFAST TIME features the director discussing his relationship with a dominant who insists he prepare his breakfast in a very unusual way. Closing the evening is Carson Parish’s MR. BOUND & GAGGED, an epic experimental portrait of Bob Wingate and Lee Clauss, who together spread their love of BDSM to the masses for over thirty years through their seminal pornographic publication Bound & Gagged. Twenty years later, the two New Yorkers visit Chicago to go through their personal collections at the Leather Archives & Museum (LA&M), where they rediscover troves of stories from their lives making porn.

Stick around after the screening for a Q&A with directors Carson Parish, Peter Cage, and Angelo Madsen Minax,