Shot on silent super-sixteen during some of his most memorable shoots, these films attest to Guy Bourdin’s ruthless pursuit of beauty. A pursuit that often verged on recklessness and the misanthropic, like a mix of poetry and snuff films. Some of his antics include covering a model in plastic gems until she fainted from asphyxiation, hanging models upside down in elaborate contraptions and restaging his first wife’s suicide as a fashion shoot. But in the end, he always got his shot.

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Film Editing and Audio Curation by Adam Mufti