Altered Innocence is a company that provides restored hi-def Blu-ray and digital releases of queer, sexy, subversive and artful films.
It may seem like every movie ever made is available on streaming services these days, but the reality is quite the opposite. Many titles haven’t seen the light of a projector, home entertainment player, or LED screen for decades, while others get yanked without warning, as if they never existed, and some never see a release at all beyond screenings on the film festival circuit.
With this in mind, Frank Jaffe founded his distribution company Altered Innocence (alteredinnocence.net) in 2015 to give proper, restored, high-definition Blu-ray and digital releases to queer, sexy, subversive, and artful films that might otherwise languish in limbo. Releasing between 12-14 titles a year, he’s given new life to long unseen works, including Hidden Pleasures (1977); Confessions of a Congressman (1978); French director Patrice Chéreau’s transgressive, Genet-esque tale of a teen who falls for an older hustler, The Wounded Man (1983); André Téchiné’s iconic queer coming-of-age drama Wild Reeds (1994); and Saturday Night at the Baths (1975), set at legendary NYC gay bathhouse, the…
