The Final Member
Posted: Tue Feb 25, 2014 4:14 pm
The Final Member is the title of a new documentary film, due to be released on April 18th, about the international penis museum in Husavik, Iceland. Below are the blurb about the film from the "official" web site and links both to that web site and the film trailer. While there will be a limited theatre release, it's mostly a straight-to-DVD film. While I normally wouldn't advertise anything that costs money here, US$9.99 seems cheap for such a strange bit of trivia. Something to leave lying around the house for guests to discover?
Paris has the Louvre, London has the Tate Modern, and New York the Metropolitan Museum. But Husavik, Icelanda diminutive village on the fringe of the Arctic Circleboasts the worlds only museum devoted exclusively to painstakingly preserved male genitalia. Founded and curated by Sigurður Siggi Hjartarson, the Icelandic Phallological Museum houses four decades worth of mammalian members, from a petite field mouse to the colossal sperm whale, and every thing in between. Lamentably, Siggis collection lacks the holy grail of phallic phantasmagoria: a human specimen. Siggis world changes dramatically when he receives generous offers from an elderly Icelandic Casanova and an eccentric American. However, as the competition for eternal penile preservation heats up between the two men, Siggi soon discovers that this process is more complicated than it initially appeared.
In their debut feature film, Jonah Bekhor and Zach Math follow Siggi on his dogged, often emotional quest to complete his exhibition in a peculiar, yet startlingly relatable, story of self-fulfillment and the value of personal legacies (both big and small).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZMaheZ_Iy0
http://thefinalmember.com/
Paris has the Louvre, London has the Tate Modern, and New York the Metropolitan Museum. But Husavik, Icelanda diminutive village on the fringe of the Arctic Circleboasts the worlds only museum devoted exclusively to painstakingly preserved male genitalia. Founded and curated by Sigurður Siggi Hjartarson, the Icelandic Phallological Museum houses four decades worth of mammalian members, from a petite field mouse to the colossal sperm whale, and every thing in between. Lamentably, Siggis collection lacks the holy grail of phallic phantasmagoria: a human specimen. Siggis world changes dramatically when he receives generous offers from an elderly Icelandic Casanova and an eccentric American. However, as the competition for eternal penile preservation heats up between the two men, Siggi soon discovers that this process is more complicated than it initially appeared.
In their debut feature film, Jonah Bekhor and Zach Math follow Siggi on his dogged, often emotional quest to complete his exhibition in a peculiar, yet startlingly relatable, story of self-fulfillment and the value of personal legacies (both big and small).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZMaheZ_Iy0
http://thefinalmember.com/