It’s certainly not your typical short film, but while it’s available to view, it’s well worth taking a look.
It’s also sometimes rather bizarre with some unexpected imagery – a lizard crawling out of a naked man’s mouth springs to mind. In it, ‘An old metal bed rolls down a hill, and is sequentially populated with a potpourri of beauties of all ages, including a coterie of young dance students, famous artists and avant-garde celebrities.’ It’s a strange, mischievous and anarchic film, which takes a look at all sorts of things that could happen on a bed – gay, straight, bisexual, mundane, silly and occasionally sexy – and all with plenty of nudity. However, for just a couple of weeks it’s been released online for free (until February 28th 2017). It’s since become a bit of an underground, midnight movie favourite, but outside certain circles it’s been difficult to see. Back in 1967 queer poet and artist James Broughton created The Bed, which has since been billed as ‘the first non-pornographic US film with full nudity’.
