SYNOPSIS

Before Sex and the City made designer Patricia Field a household name, she outfitted the downtown divas of New York like Mistresses Carrie, Ava and Sonya Blaze – three New York City professional dominatrixes featured in Whipped.  Whipped is a sly, intimate look inside the dungeons, beach homes and real lives of these women filmed over four years. Featuring New York in all its pre-9/11 decadence and glory, Whipped is a “relationship movie” from that era that takes it audience on a journey to the borderlands between flamboyant public performance and the elusive realm of private fantasy. 

World Premiere
PHILADELPHIA FESTIVAL
OF WORLD CINEMA
1998

A likable, low-key demystification of a potentially lurid subject...
Whipped doesn't exploit theme for snarky laughs or soft-core
titillation.
                                                                                            – Variety

Whipped provides insight into the dynamics of domination and submission, and ultimately the themes of fear and intimacy,
identity and fantasy, and desire for love.

                                            – Sally Berger, Museum of Modern Art

Astonishingly intimate....mistresses and slaves emerge as
extraordinary in their very ordinariness.

                            – Ray Pride, Chicago Underground Film Festival

Intimate....Waters and Porter don’t treat the subject matter as if
they have to defend it – an intelligent approach.

                                                                            – Chicago Reader

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