"Actor: Bob Flanagan"

• Sick: The Life and Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist (DVD) | DVD | (05/11/2012) from £7.33   |  Saving you £12.66 (63.30%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Bob Flanagan was an American performance artist, stand-up comic, poet, and a lifelong sufferer of cystic fibrosis. He was also a masochist, who found that his S&M experiences helped him manage the pain of his illness.Kirby Dick's internationally acclaimed, award-winning 1997 film follows Bob and his wife, Sheree Rose, through the last years of Flanagan's life. It is a deeply moving, often hilarious profile of a unique artist, giving an insight into Flanagan's warmth, courage and sense of humour.This new BFI DVD edition presents the complete, fully uncensored version of a truly astonishing film that was previously cut by the BBFC for its 2002 DVD release.

• Sick - The Life And Death Of Super Masochist Bob Flanagan | DVD | (25/02/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Bob Flanagan was an American performance artist stand up comic poet and a lifelong sufferer of cystic fibrosis. He was also a masochist who found that his S/M experiences helped him manage the pain of his illness. He met his perfect dominatrix partner in Sheree Rose and married her in 1982 while she hung him upside down from the ceiling (as Flanagan wryly comments during one of his own shows You always hurt the one you love). Kirby Dick's internationally acclaimed award-winning film follows Bob and Sheree through the last years of Flanagan's life. It is a deeply moving often hilarious profile of a unique artist giving an insight into Flanagan's warmth courage and especially his sense of humour.