ChickenHawk [1994]

In what is the worst idea possible, I watched a copy of this documentary about various members of NAMBLA in its entirety at 4AM and attempted to somehow fall asleep so I could let the nightmares begin. So fucking terrifying, but as a piece of filmmaking it’s executed very well. [The first ten minutes are embedded above - it’s 50 minutes long, broken into six parts on YT.]

EDIT: More links - Vice’s 2003 review, a 2004 interview with the filmmaker Ari Sideman, other 1994 reviews.

[via Julie Klausner at The Awl]