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My Father Is Coming “My Father is Coming: (1991) – Monika Treut Once in a while there is a need to be less intense when it comes to fetishism and kink in general. This film is a playful little ditty that is in no way meant to be taken seriously. It is a low budget romp through a simple plotline set in a not so slick New York backdrop. The basic story is of a German woman who has been trying to break into the acting biz with little success. Her father announces he is coming to visit to share in her “success” and meet her fiancé, who is in reality her gay roommate with a penchant for Latin men. The rouse is doomed from the start, but this is overshadowed by daddy’s unbelievable luck. While waiting for his a chance meeting in a washroom leads to a role in a TV commercial and a relationship with Annie, played by the infamous and enigmatic Annie Sprinkle. In response to her father’s good luck, our heroine’s life begins to unfold even more; losing her waitress gig, meeting a great guy who happens to be a F2M transsexual, her roommate moves out, her German friends seem to shun and shame her (although they run a phone-sex business out of their flat), and her father disappears after finding her in bed with another woman. In the end, of course, all is good. There are some very funny moments that are subtle and ironic. The lead, played by Shelly Kastner, has a wonderful undertone of sensuality waiting to burst out. It is surprising she has done so little acting since. The film is stolen in a sense by the father, Alfred Edel veteran German TV actor and sexual-performance artist Annie Sprinkle. Sprinkle’s performance is definitely tongue-in-cheek, playing with her own public image and acknowledging the audience from time to time. There is fetish/kink content is less explicated than it is just part of the lives of these characters. It is portrayed in a muted way, and is “worn” by the characters as any other piece of costume. This is a film shot on a shoe-string. Don’t expect lavish sets, intense costumes, or over-blown acting. It is a funky little film along the lines of “Liquid Sky” (1982) and of an ilk that is almost dissolving as cheap digital now allows indie-film to stealthy emulate bigger budget productions. However, the flavour of the character’s lifestyles shows through and the New York of the early 1990’s, just before the investment-steroids were injected, is quite palatable. With that, watch this film with a little bit of stimulation and relax. As indie-film’s go, it is one without pretentiousness. Note: I didn’t want this to evolve into a textual-worship of Dr. Annie Sprinkle (PhD, Human Sexuality), but Annie is one of those iconic figures in the fight against government control of sexual expression. I first saw Annie’s performances, as many did, in porn from the 1970’s. By the time my own arts school expression was taking off, she was conducting live art performances that hybridized art and sex. A few years later when I was face-to-face with our own government over my AIDS documentary, the meaning of Annie’s work and the confrontation had become a symbol on par with Robert Mappelthorpe (one of who’s models performed in my documentary). To see her “play” in/with this film was certainly a delight. Note: Treut worked with Sprinkle in “Annie” (1989) a docu about Sprinkle, and again in “Female Misbehaviour” (1994) a docu with four segments; Camille Paglia; Annie Sprinkle; a businesswoman obsessed with S&M; and a F2M sex-change biker.  |
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