r/nin • u/TheNumbBeauty • 23h ago
Broken Behind the Scenes for Happiness in Slavery (1992 - Jon Reiss)
The death chair has been captured many times. Including this time, with him and his girlfriend and in action in the actual music video of course. I wonder where that went. Probably a landfill. Someone could mistake it for a hunk of industrial junk. Honestly for the vibe of the music video that's not a bad compliment lol.
Trent is nowhere in this photo. Only Bob Flanagan and the torture assistants (evil) who did the props and stuff (excuse for real torture!) I notice one of them is holding a flashlight up to him while the camera is barely in shot. Probably not in takes since the people in frame.
Very cool set.
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u/steppingrazor1220 8h ago
Bob Flanagan was a very interesting person. Highly recommend this documentary on him. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41hMdzerOqU
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u/Kalhava79 17h ago
I still have the whole movie on video
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u/every_other_monday 10h ago
I don't know if the torrents still exists, but TR and friends purposefully leaked the Broken movie and entire Closure DVD back in 2006.
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u/Wise_Explorer_3211 14h ago
Pretty sure that's a directors' viewfinder not a flashlight. And is that Brian fantana in the background 😄
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u/ruiner79 2h ago
The chair was taken by Trent to his studio at Cielo Dr. (You can see it here at time stamp 4:40 https://youtu.be/n1LfynKLIUw?is=OfxeXu_P3CgLTSYr )After TDS was recorded he took it to Nothing Studios. I think I read in a book about music video artifacts that it was auctioned of but don't quote me on that.
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u/TheNumbBeauty 1h ago
Holy shit. Thanks for the find. I never knew he kept it for that short.
Probably sitting in some guys storage. Put it on display bro.
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u/Kalhava79 9h ago
I had mine longer it's from the 90s I "borrowed" it made a copy and gave it back see old school since 89
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u/puppyrube2025 18h ago
I love that these were directed by Sleazy (Throbbing gristle / Coil)