

Palace of Pleasure
John Hofsess’s The Palace of Pleasure emerged from the psychedelic haze of 1960s postmodern art. It was a blistering work that combined arresting abstract imagery with the wounded expressions of a young couple, edited into a collage of mass culture imagery and album and book jackets, all of it framed as a therapeutic treatment. Addressed to a generation coming up in an era of protest and social change, where many found themselves increasingly burdened with hopelessness, paranoia, and neurosis, The Palace of Pleasure was offered as a cleansing ritual, a post-Freudian expelling of dammed-up energies that anticipated The Primal Scream. In this video, Stephen Broomer discusses Hofsess’s therapeutic ambitions, how the film was composed of Hofsess’s earlier films, and the sensual spell of the work, the way in which it commands us to enter into a universal fellowship of touch that circulates, from us to us, through us, to strain the boundaries between the self and the other.
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- English
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Release dates
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- Premiere"Canyon Cinematheque", 1542 Haight St., San Francisco, CA28 Dec 1967
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- When was Palace of Pleasure released?
- Palace of Pleasure was released on 28 December 1967.
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- Palace of Pleasure holds a 7.0/10 audience score from 1 votes.
- Who directed Palace of Pleasure?
- Palace of Pleasure (1967) was directed by John Hofsess.
- How long is Palace of Pleasure?
- Palace of Pleasure runs for 38m.













