According to his producer Mike Wallington, John Samson took some pride in the fact his 1977 film Dressing for Pleasure was banned by London Weekend Television. A revealing portrait of a select number of fetish devotees unblinkingly filmed in their favourite leather gear, the documentary’s frank, full-frontal study of this generally taboo practice was always likely to worry jittery broadcasters. But the most striking thing about Samson’s documentary is its careful refusal to sensationalise its subject matter.

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As part of LIDF’s John Samson Retrospective, independent film-maker Mike Wallington, John Samson’s long time collaborator and producer of Tattoo, Dressing For Pleasure, Britannia and Arrows talks to Kamila Kuc about the unique status of the work he and Samson made together.

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