Fred Halsted, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Fred Halsted

American film director

Date of Birth: 20-Jul-1941

Place of Birth: Long Beach, California, United States

Date of Death: 09-May-1989

Profession: screenwriter, actor, pornographic actor, film director, prostitute

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Cancer


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About Fred Halsted

  • Fred Halsted (July 17, 1941 - May 9, 1989) was an American gay pornographic film director, actor, escort, publisher, and sex club owner.
  • His films Sex Garage and L.A.
  • Plays Itself are the only gay pornographic movies in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art, where they were screened before a capacity audience on April 23, 1974.
  • A screening of L.A.
  • Plays Itself was sponsored by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art on February 28, 2013 and another took place on December 16, 2011 at the Los Angeles art gallery Human Resources.
  • His films have also been shown the Netherlands Film Museum and in competition at The Deauville Film Festival."Halsted more or less created the world of gay sexual art and experimentation.
  • He then watched it, and himself, be destroyed by AIDS, a sanitizing of gay sexual tastes and the power of addiction."Halsted was a sex radical.
  • He believed that the erotic is transgressive and sacramental, that it is inherently violent and involves acts of violation.
  • "Sex is not 'coming,' that is superficial sex," he once explained.
  • "Mine is personal cinema.
  • I don't fuck to get my rocks off.
  • In the best scenes I've ever had, I haven't come.
  • I am not interesting in coming.
  • … I am interested in getting my head off, my emotions off."

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