Wet Dreams: Films & Adventures
Willem de Ridder, William LevyAmsterdam: Joy Publications, 1973.
First Edition.
34.5cm x 24.5cm. [viii], 264 pages, black and white illustrations. Illustrated wrappers.
The book of the Wet Dream Film Festivals presented by Suck, that European Sexpaper. Suck tasked themselves with creating “a new pornography which would demystify male and female bodies”. Heathcote Williams in his Suck manifesto declares “SUCK is Group Sex, Police Sex, Animal Sex, Teeny Sex, One Armed Bandit Sex, Geriatric Sex and Cosmic Sex”. Wet Dreams the book documents the film festivals organised by Suck and held in Amsterdam in 1970 and 1971 showing films for the sexual avant-garde exploring the boundaries between art and pornography. The book, illustrated throughout in the Suck style and with articles by Brion Gysin, Al Goldstein, Betty Dodson, Jim Haynes, Germaine Greer, Heathcote Williams, and many others, together with details of the films shown and the festival judges deliberations.
. Fine Condition.
The Book Merchant Jenkins is away 24 August to 25 September, including exhibiting at the Berlin Rare Book Fair (18-20 September). Online orders can still be placed during this period and will be processed on our return. Email enquiries will be answered, though response times may be a little slower than usual.
AU$300