Tom Yourk

In a fancy villa, a young man and a nude youth cruise each other but never touch.

Prometheus arrives in New York and earns the wrath of Zeus. He’s manacled to the floor and tormented by the Furies until Hercules, on his thirteenth labour, appears to break the chains and carry away the cruelly treated Prometheus, unbound.

In the late 1960s and early 1970s British-born New Yorker and unsung hero of gay underground filmmaking Peter de Rome produced a number of explicit, painstakingly crafted Super 8 films each of which took the viewer on an immersive sexual journey. In 1973, eight of these films were brought together as The Erotic Films of Peter de Rome producing one of the finest cinematic examples of the intersection of artistry and eroticism, in the tradition of Andy Warhol and Kenneth Anger.