In the future, humans are divided into Sex Negatives and Sex Positives. The Negatives get sick if they have sex, so every night they go to Café Flesh to see Positives who are forced to perform on stage for their entertainment.
Production
Expressionist sets that Lynch wishes he built
Direction
Sayadian's music video aesthetic before MTV existed
Writing
Actual political satire hiding in plain sight
Director
Stephen Sayadian
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Stephen Sayadian created this after designing album covers for Cheap Trick and Styx; the theatrical lighting wasn't budget—it's his actual aesthetic.
Café Flesh premiered during the Reagan administration's AIDS panic, making its metaphor of 'contaminated' sexuality and forbidden touch almost too on-the-nose.
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