The Performance

Distributor	Released	Vendor ID
Bizarre Productions	?	F1009

Studio:

Bizarre Productions

Credit:

Pat Rocco

Length:

200'

Media:

Film; color

Performer	Action
Shawn Zee
Voldemar

Shawn Zee

Promo:

COMMENTS OF THE CRITICS:

"Rocco has genuine talent. His best film is the strangely disturbing THE PERFORMANCE. This pas-de-deux for two figures - one black, one white - builds an ambiguous sense of desire & dread through its movements of camera, of actors and by editing. It is not merely a sex or skin film, but a poesie which bursts the bounds of its conventions. THE PERFORMANCE is too good to be relegated to the male nude houses ... it is a sex act not easily forgotten ....."

RICHARD WHITEHALL

Los Angeles Open City

"THE PERFORMANCE is a surrealistic bombshell with overtones of revered racial symbols and play like a dream ballet. It is a disturbing picture on many planes .... and make Sidney Poitier's roles look like Uncle Tom playing opposite Mary Poppins. It is one of the most anti-wasp (white-anglo-saxon-protestant) picture I've ever seen ..............."

SAM WINSTON

Los Angeles Advocate

Found in these collections:

Pat Rocco film shorts

The Pat Rocco Male Nude Film Festival

References:

Pat Rocco Male Film Review: Bizarre Productions pg. 34-35

Catalog of Hollywood Models & Feature Films by Pat Rocco No. 24 1968: Bizarre Productions pg. 10,21

Catalog of Hollywood Models & Feature Films by Pat Rocco No. 24 1968: Bizarre Productions pg. 18

Park Theatre. Los Angeles Times Jul. 23, 1968 (Advertisement)

Park Theatre, L.A.. Jul. 31, 1968 (Screening)

Catalog of Hollywood Models & Feature Films by Pat Rocco No. 26 1970: Bizarre Productions pg. 23

"Cover Boys" Spree News Pictorial Vol. 3 No. 2 Jan. 1971 pg. 2 (Notes)

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