Collectors are always on the lookout for that one special item. Sometimes it’s a rare minted coin, or the first edition of an obscure novel. For Sigurður “Siggi” Hjartarson, curator of the world’s only penis museum, the sacred object isn’t hard to find. It is, however, hard to get a grip on, and one documentary will show just how far Hjartarson is willing to go to complete his life’s work.
Drafthouse Films just released a trailer for The Final Member, a film that chronicles the true story of three men and a baby-maker. The debut feature from filmmakers Jonah Bekhor and Zach Math follows Hjartarson in his quest to obtain the ever elusive human specimen for his Icelandic Phallological Museum, which houses genitalia from every other mammalian creature on Earth. He finds two willing candidates – an elderly Icelander and a cocky (ha, ha) American cowboy – but soon the process becomes more complicated when the men begin vying for manhood immortality. Needless to say, this film could bring a whole new meaning to penis envy. Check out the trailer, courtesy of Badass Digest, and synopsis below:
Synopsis:
Paris has the Louvre, London has the Tate Modern, and New York the Metropolitan Museum. But Husavik, Iceland—a diminutive village on the fringe of the Arctic Circle—boasts the world’s only museum devoted exclusively to painstakingly preserved male genitalia. Founded and curated by Sigurður “Siggi” Hjartarson, the Icelandic Phallological Museum houses four decades worth of mammalian members, from a petite field mouse to the colossal sperm whale, and every “thing” in between. Lamentably, Siggi’s collection lacks the holy grail of phallic phantasmagoria: a human specimen. Siggi’s world changes dramatically when he receives generous offers from an elderly Icelandic Casanova and an eccentric American. However, as the competition for eternal penile preservation heats up between the two men, Siggi soon discovers that this process is more complicated than it initially appeared. In their debut feature film, Jonah Bekhor and Zach Math follow Siggi on his dogged, often emotional quest to complete his exhibition in a peculiar, yet startlingly relatable, story of self-fulfillment and the value of personal legacies (both big and small).
The Final Member will penetrate theaters and VOD on April 18th.
Do you find Hjartarson’s story intriguing? Would you watch the documentary?