Private Project

GLORY HOLE

GLORY HOLE
Video performance | 2025 | 14 min | Spain
Directed and conceived by: Domiziano Delvaux Christan

A cavity. A threshold. A hole in the wall.
"GLORY HOLE" is a visceral video performance that dives into flesh, desire, and solitude through the raw lyricism of butoh movement. Two nude bodies writhe in a confined, abstract space, evoking a blind ritual of contact—faceless, anonymous, yet saturated with memory.

The glory hole becomes a metaphor: for the encounter between need and absence, for the tension between sexual impulse and social censorship. It is also a symbolic portal—into the unconscious, into what’s been repressed, into a form of pleasure that has no face but only substance.

Shot in stark cold colors and blacklight, with a soundscape alternating between visceral silence and organic noise, the video blends extreme dance, queer iconography, and body art into a provocative reflection on pornography, pleasure, and marginalized modes of expression.

"GLORY HOLE" shows nothing overtly sexual—yet it’s pornography of the soul.

  • Domiziano De Cristofaro
    Director
    House of Flesh Mannequins, Xpiation, Red Krokodil
  • Domiziano Cristopharo
    Key Cast
    "Hole 1"
    Phallacies the movie, erotik 2, fantasticherie di un passeggiatore solitario
  • Leo Bulgari
    Key Cast
    "Hole 2"
  • Project Type:
    Experimental, Music Video, Short, Other
  • Genres:
    Dance Butoh, Performance
  • Runtime:
    14 minutes 13 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    April 22, 2025
  • Country of Origin:
    Spain
  • Country of Filming:
    Spain
  • Language:
    Spanish
  • Shooting Format:
    digital full HD
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - Domiziano De Cristofaro

DOMIZIANO CRISTOPHARO:
Since 1990 he has perfectioned and expanded his technique studying "Psychology of form" with Nato Frasca' and by attending multiple courses and workshops, including Teatro Butoh, Solfeggio, Lyrical Vocal Technique, and Teatro Yoga with the likes of Memo Dini, Marcello Sambati, Simona Valli and Masaki Iwana (considered one of the greatest Butoh performers in Japan and the world, and one of the few masters who maintained the original spirit of Butoh). In the 1990s, together with actor/dancer Pino Grossi, he founded the Dance company CONTENITORI DI IMMAGINI with which he produced several shows for Italy and abroad. In 2002 he also create the music compilation TUTTI PAZZI PER RETTORE with which he obtains distribution at the European level, also reaching 12th place in the European chart.

He founded BLOODY CABARET in 2006, a company of SIDESHOW and BODY ART with which he landed in 2007 to the most popular show in italy: DIGNITA' AUTONOME. He will then remain in this show as a solist until 2015, performing in historical theaters such as the Quirino (Rome) Franco Parenti (Milan), Bellini (Naples) and of which he will be spokesperson on RAI 1 (the Italian National Television) together with actress Marianna Mercurio.

In 2022 he was a guest of the University of Amsterdam on the themes of the staging of Gender and Violence.

His character ARTE IN MUTANDE (with the lighted Frack and Top Hat, copied and imitated by many) will become iconic, landing on the posters of the show and opening Luis Vuitton's exclusive party for the opening of its ETOILE BOUTIQUE in Rome.

LEO BULGARI:
Is an actor/dancer born in Colombia; began his career as a child in the world of dance. His concerns were growing and it is when he enters in the world of drag where he World of drag where he created his alterego "BulgariAmore" more where it makes him grow in the world of music, releasing his own songs and recording his video clips, this also makes him get more involved in the LGBTQ+ movement giving the first drag movement in Cali - his hometown - where he had several events quite important for this collective .

He also studied acting where he was part of different theater groups and that's when in 2019 he lands in Spain to continue training in different areas of art in that country .

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