Hallelujah! Ron Athey: A Story of Deliverance (1998)

Synopsis: Although Ron Ahey was raised by a strict Pentecostal grandmother, he would come to lead a disturbed life of heroin addiction laced with a penchant for suicide beginning at the age of 17. During... Although Ron Ahey was raised by a strict Pentecostal grandmother, he would come to lead a disturbed life of heroin addiction laced with a penchant for suicide beginning at the age of 17. During this period, Ron contracted the AIDS virus and began to discover a form of catharsis in intense acts of sadomasochism and self-mutilation. He later transformed these tendencies into his own shocking form of performance art. This documentary chronicles his life and works (including on-stage enemas, body piercing, and "cutting"), and investigates this extreme art. [More]

Starring: Ron Athey

Starring: Ron Athey

Director: Catherine Gund Saalfield

Director: Catherine Gund Saalfield

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