Mano Destra

Mano Destra is a 1986 Italian-language Swiss art film written, directed by and starring Cleo Uebelmann. In black and white, Mano Destra is a study of lesbian erotic objectification which depicts Uebelmann as a dominatrix.tying a woman in a lengthy series of acts of consensual bondage. The film dwells at length on the bound woman tied in each of her positions, in a series of extended almost static shots.
Images from the film were later published in 1988 as part of a book, The Dominas - Mano Destra by the Cleo Übelmann-Group.
The music is by the Swiss electro-wave group.

Accolades

In Women and the New German Cinema, Julia Knight describes it as a film which explores the liberating possibilities of sadomasochism, subverting audience expectations of what sadomasochism is like. In New Queer Cinema, B. Ruby Rich described it as "deserving of instant cult status".
In The Pleasure Threshold: Looking at Lesbian Pornography on Film, Cherry Smyth states that its imagery is "beyond sex", and that "like being offered an ice-cold, luscious fruit drink on a hot day, which you are forbidden to taste, this film encapsulates desire as death, as nothingness, and yet utter completeness".
The director Peter Strickland has cited the film as a favourite and one of his sources of inspiration for his film The Duke of Burgundy.