From Beginning to End by Aluisio Abranches

There is a movie in Brazil that is raising quite an interest due to the incest argument. It's called Do Começo Ao Fim (or From Beginning To End) and it's coming out soon, hoping also outside Brazil.

Trailer and Teaser (NWS):

Teaser (NWS)

From Beginning to End by Aluisio Abranches

There is a movie in Brazil that is raising quite an interest due to the incest argument. It's called Do Começo Ao Fim (or From Beginning To End) and it's coming out soon, hoping also outside Brazil.

Trailer and Teaser (NWS):

Teaser (NWS)

Philip Swarbrick: The Hidden World of Hedonistic Sadism

"I was born in South Africa in 1956. My first interest in painting the male nude was when I saw The Agony and the Ecstacy featuring Charlton Heston as Michelangelo. During my pre-teens I frolicked on Rocket Hut Beach a half mile from where I lived. The beach was inhabited by mainly male sunbathers who sprawled out in the sanctuary of the sand dunes. As I reached my early teens, the male form I admired and featured in my drawings fused with my progressively emerging (and apparent) homosexuality. My drawings disturbed my family and peers so my venture into this sort of art was abruptly curtailed.


"Moonlit Encounter" by Philip Swarbrick (Oil Painting)

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As I grew older, my daytime and nocturnal activities on Rocket Hut Beach increased despite draconian laws forbidding homosexual contact. I was conscripted into the South Africa Police and I teamed up with like-minded officers. We regularly raided the numerous cruising areas around Durban, 'apprehending' those 'soliciting with intent'. As I became more politically aware, enforcing apartheid became impossible and I left the country.
 
During this period I neglected the homosexual content of my work and concentratedon anti-apartheid themes. My first one-man exhibition was entitled Witness to Apartheid and Post Modern Blues. This was held in London at the Balhamgallery in 1987. The exhibition nearly sold out and received favourable comments from The Voice and Time Out. Thereafter I had a painting shortlisted for the BP National Portrait Award.
 
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More Artists at my website: http://www.elisarolle.com/, My Ramblings/Art