Hey Bud revolves around the suicide of Bud Dwyer, a government official who killed himself before a television audience. I view the suicide as pornographic. The suicide, exposed to a wide television audience, becomes a kind of sex act that plays upon the tension created between exhibitionist and voyeur.
Weaving scenes of the suicide with intimate images of women, the tape explores the power of the exhibitionist, fatal once taken, with the traditional power that women seek through exhibitionism and exploitation, ultimately a power gain through the death of the self.