DP/30: Mapplethorpe, Randy Barbato & Fenton Bailey

2,504 views · Published 24 March 2016 · 43:31 · Indexed 12 November 2026

Channel: DP/30: The Oral History Of Hollywood · 2016 · Film & Animation

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One of the world's great documentary teams of this generation, Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato are masters of high and low, their work ranging from RuPaul to Tammy Faye Baker, Carrie Fisher to Monica Lewinsky,  They have turned their attention to Robert Mapplethorpe and delivered one of the most interesting pieces on the will to become famous, the weight of being an artist, and living through the early era of AIDS.  David Poland talked to the duo about the new film, but also about a now 25 year career as filmmakers.

Shot in Los Angeles, March 2016

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