Female Trouble

While studying performance art at CalArts in the mid 70s, a young Paul Reubens was inspired by the “conceptual creatures” in Andy Warhol and Paul Morrissey’s avant-garde films. He also discovered his longtime friend John Waters’ jaw-dropping and astonishingly funny Female Trouble. This cult classic takes fame-lust and crime-worship into unimaginable terrain, making Waters the reigning anarchist-agitprop bad boy of cinema. Waters’ muse, Divine, subsequently became an underground icon of the 70s and an idol for generations of gender illusionists and shock artists to come. “I’m so fucking beautiful I can’t stand it myself!”

Featuring an introduction by Murray Hill on Sep 5