SPIKE Collection - Sadness of Sex

Episode 10 - Elm

"A woman's sex [aka, her "c-muffin"] breaks loose and escapes into the streets." And the result is an hilarious, sad, tender, brilliant, postmodern, genre-busting horror film crossed with a work of hard-boiled detective fiction and a romantic melodrama to boot (not to mention a pussy-up-a-tree rescue). A brilliant conclusion to a superb, multi-dimensional film that utterly deserves the cult status it has achieved.

The Sadness of Sex is a truly extraordinary postmodern work of theatre, performance art, film, and stream-of-conscious monologue that traverses the hilarious and outrageous journey of a hopeless romantic (Barry Yourgrau, who also wrote it) riding the cycle of passion, romance, laughter and the seemingly inevitable, heart wrenching breakup. Interweaving dream logic with satire, melodrama, surrealism, and everyday reality, it dives headfirst into the craziness and contradictions of sexual relations between men and women, and the soulful search for understanding and love.

Runtime: 00 hrs 15 min 50 sec

Episode 9 - Revolt

"It's every man's worst nightmare: The women are revolting!"

A truly extraordinary work of theatre, performance art, film, and stream-of-conscious monologue that traverses the hilarious and outrageous journey of a hopeless romantic (Barry Yourgrau, who also wrote it) riding the cycle of passion, romance, laughter and the seemingly inevitable, heart wrenching breakup. Interweaving dream logic with satire, melodrama, surrealism, and everyday reality, it dives headfirst into the craziness and contradictions of sexual relations between men and women, and the soulful search for understanding and love.

Runtime: 00 hrs 05 min 22 sec

Episode 8 - Fin de Siecle (Century's End)

When your heart holds you back, cut it out!

The Sadness of Sex is a truly extraordinary postmodern work of theatre, performance art, film, and stream-of-conscious monologue that traverses the hilarious and outrageous journey of a hopeless romantic (Barry Yourgrau, who also wrote it) riding the cycle of passion, romance, laughter and the seemingly inevitable, heart wrenching breakup. Interweaving dream logic with satire, melodrama, surrealism, and everyday reality, it dives headfirst into the craziness and contradictions of sexual relations between men and women, and the soulful search for understanding and love.

Runtime: 00 hrs 05 min 48 sec

Episode 7 - Riddle

The Sadness of Sex is a truly extraordinary postmodern work of theatre, performance art, film, and stream-of-conscious monologue that traverses the hilarious and outrageous journey of a hopeless romantic (Barry Yourgrau, who also wrote it) riding the cycle of passion, romance, laughter and the seemingly inevitable, heart wrenching breakup. Interweaving dream logic with satire, melodrama, surrealism, and everyday reality, it dives headfirst into the craziness and contradictions of sexual relations between men and women, and the soulful search for understanding and love.

Runtime: 00 hrs 03 min 14 sec

Episode 6 - Strawberries

Runtime: 00 hrs 06 min 00 sec

Episode 5 - Udders

"I get involved in a game of poker. Strip poker. The others have somehow persuaded a cow to join in. Naturally it always plays a losing hand."

This poignant comedy about love is from Rupert Wainwright (Stigmata) and stars Peta Wilson and Barry Yourgrau.

It traverses the hilarious and outrageous journey of a hopeless romantic along a stream of consciousness, riding the cycle of passion, romance, laughter and the seemingly inevitable, heart wrenching breakup. Interweaving dream logic with everyday reality, it dives headfirst into the craziness and contradictions of sexual relations between men and women, the soulful search for understanding and love.

Runtime: 00 hrs 02 min 49 sec

Episode 4 - Demoiselle

Exactly how many ways can IT be done?

The Sadness of Sex is a truly extraordinary postmodern work of theatre, performance art, film, and stream-of-conscious monologue that traverses the hilarious and outrageous journey of a hopeless romantic (Barry Yourgrau, who also wrote it) riding the cycle of passion, romance, laughter and the seemingly inevitable, heart wrenching breakup. Interweaving dream logic with satire, melodrama, surrealism, and everyday reality, it dives headfirst into the craziness and contradictions of sexual relations between men and women, and the soulful search for understanding and love.

Runtime: 00 hrs 03 min 42 sec

Episode 3 - Domestic Intelligence

"All relationships begin in passion and end at the breakfast table," said Dorothy Parker. And here we have the surreal illustration of that dictum.

The Sadness of Sex is a truly extraordinary postmodern work of theatre, performance art, film, and stream-of-conscious monologue that traverses the hilarious and outrageous journey of a hopeless romantic (Barry Yourgrau, who also wrote it) riding the cycle of passion, romance, laughter and the seemingly inevitable, heart wrenching breakup. Interweaving dream logic with satire, melodrama, surrealism, and everyday reality, it dives headfirst into the craziness and contradictions of sexual relations between men and women, and the soulful search for understanding and love.

Runtime: 00 hrs 04 min 00 sec

Episode 2 - Silver Arrows

"Cupid, draw back your bow, and let your arrow go," sang the great R and B master Sam Cooke. Doesn't seem like he had this scenario in mind.

The Sadness of Sex is a truly extraordinary postmodern work of theatre, performance art, film, and stream-of-conscious monologue that traverses the hilarious and outrageous journey of a hopeless romantic (Barry Yourgrau, who also wrote it) riding the cycle of passion, romance, laughter and the seemingly inevitable, heart wrenching breakup. Interweaving dream logic with satire, melodrama, surrealism, and everyday reality, it dives headfirst into the craziness and contradictions of sexual relations between men and women, and the soulful search for understanding and love.

Runtime: 00 hrs 05 min 54 sec

Episode 1 - Poison

Hilarious first episode of The Sadness of Sex: A Dramatic Love Story in Ten Episodes, in which the hero sees the heroine and is struck by the "hideous toxin of love."

A truly extraordinary work of theatre, performance art, film, and stream-of-conscious monologue that traverses the hilarious and outrageous journey of a hopeless romantic (Barry Yourgrau, who also wrote it) riding the cycle of passion, romance, laughter and the seemingly inevitable, heart wrenching breakup. Interweaving dream logic with satire, melodrama, surrealism, and everyday reality, it dives into the craziness and contradictions of sexual relations between men and women, and the soulful search for understanding and love. Made in Canada and directed by the British filmmaker Rufus Wainwright.

Runtime: 00 hrs 04 min 59 sec