70 minutes of '80s neon, leather, and questionable arcade hygiene. Insert coin?
"Arcade" takes you deep into the dark, sweaty world of porn movies and hot glory hole action. Reality and fantasy come together as strangers merge their most secret passions.
Production
Genuine arcade location shooting that no budget could replicate today.
Costume
Leather, jockstraps, and marine dress whites—period-accurate gay iconography.
Director
Jim West
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot during the final years of pre-AIDS sexual abandon, 'Arcade' documents a specific queer geography—adult bookstores and arcades—that gentrification and the internet have nearly erased.
Director Jim West allegedly filmed in an actual functioning Los Angeles arcade after hours, with some 'performers' being genuine patrons recruited on-site.
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