presents

Available now for Pride Month on Hulu, Amazon, iTunes,
GooglePlay, Kanopy, FandangoNow, & Vudu

In the all-too-rare tradition of restoring the original vision of a film, Mapplethorpe, The Director's Cut adds omitted scenes and a vibrant new soundtrack to provide a richer, more contextual narrative of the controversial photographer's life and work, helmed by renowned queer director Ondi Timoner (DIG!). Jamie Wolf, of Foothill Productions, and Geralyn Dreyfus are proud to present the full, definitive story of one of the 20th Century's most transgressive artists.

Mapplethorpe - The Director's Cut Trailer

SYNOPSIS:
Photographer Robert Mapplethorpe was among the most consequential and controversial artists of the 20th Century.

Mapplethorpe, The Director’s Cut, offers restored scenes depicting Mapplethorpe’s childhood love of photography, his embattled relationship with his father, and his lingering, ambivalent connection to the Catholic faith. The film follows Robert's important love affair with Patti Smith and his subsequent, pivotal romance with powerhouse art collector Sam Wagstaff. We see Mapplethorpe's development of a precise, erotically-charged photographic style, along with his ultimately successful struggle to attain mainstream recognition—a status interrupted, although barely halted, by his untimely death from AIDS.

Mapplethorpe, The Director’s Cut, portrays a nuanced portrait of an artist at the height of his craft, along with the self-destructive impulses that threatened to undermine everything he prized.

Watch the Q&A with Film Independent President Josh Welsh and director Ondi Timoner following the FI
screening of Mapplethorpe, The Director's Cut HERE.

STARRING: Matt Smith, John Benjamin Hickey & Marianne Rendón
DIRECTED BY: Ondi Timoner
WRITTEN BY: Mikko Alanne & Ondi Timoner
RUN TIME: 114 minutes