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TRICIA’S
WEDDING/ELEVATOR GIRLS IN BONDAGE
Tuesday,
October 22
9:30pm
Harvard Exit Theatre
In 1969, flamboyant, gender-bending hippies took to the stage at San Francisco’s
Palace Theater and made history. As chronicled in the recently acclaimed
documentary by David Weissman and Bill Weber, the Cockettes united the
best of flower power and post-Stonewall gay culture with a healthy dose
of hallucinogens for good measure. During Weissman’s research, he
located and restored two landmark films of gay cinema (and Cockettes’
history) for new queer generations to enjoy.
TRICIA’S WEDDING is an outrageous spoof of Richard
Nixon’s daughter’s "historic" White House wedding.
No one is safe from The Cockettes’ mockery as they take on the Kennedys,
Liz Taylor, Barbra Streisand, and Coretta Scott King (portrayed by disco
diva Sylvester). The LSD-spiked punch turns this stuffy formal event into
standard Cockettes debauchery.
ELEVATOR GIRLS IN BONDAGE continues to push the envelope
by questioning a capitalist society’s oppression of the working
class. From within a seedy hotel, elevator girl Maxine (played by the
ever-radiant Rumi) leads the workers’ revolt through folk songs,
Marxist maxims, and sex. Would you expect any less from a Cockette? Come
witness this rare screening event!
Playing
with COMPLAINTS, a comical short from Weissman’s
personal archives.
COMPLAINTS; David Weissman, director; 1991; USA; 9 minutes;
video
TRICIA’S WEDDING; Sebastian, director; 1971; USA;
33 minutes; 16mm
ELEVATOR GIRLS IN BONDAGE; Michael Kalmen, director;
1972; USA; 56 minutes; video
Director in attendance
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