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Refuge

Country: USA, Language: English, 13 mins

  • Director: Melanie Aronson
  • Writer: Melanie Aronson
  • Producer: Melanie Aronson

CGiii Comment

Douglas Turnbaugh, a 78 year-old, talks about his life, his art and sexual proclivities...accompanied by a hideous piano.

As a piece of social history, fine. As a film, rather dull.


Watch...

REFUGE from Melanie Aronson on Vimeo.

The(ir) Blurb...

Douglas Turnbaugh, a 78 year-old Manhattan intellectual with a hidden passion for whips, bondage, and younger men, relives the evolution of his sexuality and how, from a very young age, he came to discover his love for Sadomasochism.

Cast & Characters

Douglas Blair Turnbaugh