American underground artist and cult figure Steve Haworth spawns an international subculture obsessed with his extreme body modification surgeries.

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EVERY ARTIST NEEDS A CANVAS.
FOR STEVE HAWORTH, IT'S HUMAN FLESH.

Flesh & Blood is Larry Silverman's compelling, critically acclaimed feature documentary about one of the most controversial and legendary practitioners of modern-day radical body modification.

Guinness Book of World Records body modification artist and cult figure, Steve Haworth is a legitimate pioneer in the field, credited with originating techniques for subdermal and transdermal implants. He spawned a worldwide following hooked on his surgical innovations. People come from around the world to his Phoenix, Arizona home, unsatisfied with even full body tattoos and piercings. Haworth provides subdermal implants: crosses, stars, and all sorts of three dimensional shapes placed under their skin. The transdermal involves delicately implanting a plate under the client's skin to provide the ability to screw and unscrew ornamental objects in and out of their body.

Haworth is not a doctor and cannot legally use anesthesia, so he must straddle the line defined by the American Medical Association. Although Haworth has had a very public persona within the body modification community, this is the first and only time he has allowed cameras to shoot his procedures for all to see.
Shot over a five year period, Flesh & Blood explores Haworth’s evolution as an artist. He would eventually spend most of his spare time facilitating flesh-hook suspensions whereby people suspend from their skin via hooks pierced through their skin.

In his own words, Haworth shows us his world, a world populated by the planet's most extreme looking people, so obsessed with their looks, they're willing to endure any pain necessary. Flesh & Blood is considered too explicit for American TV and has only screened at film festivals in the U.S. But around the world, it’s begun airing on more daring networks, in Australia, Japan, The Netherlands, China, Greece, Sweden, Canada, among others.

The film was produced and directed by Larry Silverman, a veteran writer/producer/director of documentary television for Discovery Channel, National Geographic, Animal Planet, NBC, ABC, MSNBC, among others. This is his first independent project.

THIS MOVIE IS NOT RATED. IT CONTAINS NUDITY AND MATURE SUBJECT MATTER. VIEWER DISCRETION ADVISED.

When I first began to investigate extremes beyond tattoos and piercings, it led me to Haworth. Many of his friends referred to him as a ‘mad scientist,’ but I found him to be a smart meticulous man with a background in art, engineering, and medical instrumentation manufacturing. He inhabits an astonishing underground world few realize exists. So I felt compelled to document that world through his eyes.