Sam Ashby
DIRECTOR
Sam Ashby
YEAR
2026
COUNTRY
United States | United Kingdom
RUNTIME
25
minutes
LANGUAGE
English
PRODUCER
Sam Ashby
ADVISORY
Nudity
CAST
Ron Athey, Guy Baldwin, Ganymede Cupbearer, Revé Douglas, Jack Fritscher, Hunter Hargraves, Mark Hemry, Rob Hopcke, Guy Seiler
A portrait of the late writer, filmmaker, theologian, and fisting evangelist Purusha Larkin, author of the influential text The Divine Androgyne. Through interviews with Purusha’s friends, lovers, followers, and admirers—including BDSM legends Ron Athey and Guy Baldwin—and sun-dappled 16mm photography of the California landscape where Purusha built the titular fisting community, Ashby crafts an elegiac love letter both to Purusha and his world.
Sam Ashby (b. 1981) is a British artist and filmmaker based in London. His archival, research-led practice is concerned with uncovering marginal narratives and activating them through film, writing and publishing. From 2010–2021 he edited Little Joe, a journal for the discussion of film around subjects of sexuality and gender within a queer historical context, now collected in an anthology from SPBH Editions/MACK. His first film, The Colour of His Hair (2017), premiered at International Film Festival Rotterdam and won the Best Documentary prize at London Short Film Festival 2018.
