Dick: A Film by Jo Menell

Amusing short film, in which pictures of male private parts are flashed on-screen, one after the other, accompanied by voice-overs of women discussing the relevance of the "wrinkly worms", their first glimpse of one, what they think of them, etc. Not, as you might imagine, the most serious-minded film in the world, and all the better for taking itself humourously.

I love this flick! Just watched it again with my lover, who is much younger than I, and his jaw was on the floor all the way through. Like myself when I first saw this jewel, he'd never seen such variety of shapes, sizes, caps, no caps, jewelry enhanced, and curved dancing dicks as this great short film amusingly shows us in a fast moving, black and white manifesto on fearless exposure. Pithy humor in the women's voices, who are also baring their sexuality by commenting on men's genitals, weaves "Dick" together like a lively patterned Navajo rug. I've never shown my copy to a person that didn't bring it up numerous times, days, weeks, months later. It says much more than it says. Dick forces one's constraints to open like a nova blasts open a star, and it still twinkles brightly all these years later, as radical today as it was in '89. Perfect! Way to go Jo Menell!