Editing Pink Narcissus (section)

== Production ==
In a 2005 interview, Bidgood enumerated some of the film's inspirations, such as the British film [[The Red Shoes (1948 film)|''The Red Shoes'']] and actress [[Maria Montez]]. Most of the film's extras were people actor Don Brooks found on the streets when he went out of the set on "talent searches".<ref>Edgecomb, Sean F. (May 2006) [https://archive.today/20130110175716/http://www.brightlightsfilm.com/52/bidgoodiv.htm Camping out with James Bidgood] Archived from the original on January 10, 2013. Retrieved January 4, 2024.</ref>

The film is mostly shot on [[8 mm film]]<ref name="Gallagher">{{cite web |last1=Gallagher |first1=Paul |title=James Bidgood's Sumptuous and Subversive 'Pink Narcissus', 1971 |url=https://dangerousminds.net/comments/james_bidgood_pink_narcissus |date=4 July 2011 |publisher=dangerousminds.net |accessdate=20 June 2018}}</ref> with bright, otherworldly lighting and intense colors. Aside from its last, climactic scene, which was shot in a downtown [[Manhattan]] [[loft]], it was produced in its entirety (including outdoor scenes) in Bidgood's small [[New York City]] apartment over a seven-year (from 1963 to 1970) period and ultimately released without the consent of the director, who therefore had himself credited as ''Anonymous''. He said in the interview, "See, why I took my name off of it was that I was protesting, which I'd heard at the time that's what you did..."<ref name="Gallagher" />