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Directed by Paul Morrissey | 97 minutes | 15+ | 55th Anniversary |
10:15pm Friday, 15 May | Balam Balam Place - Cinema 3 | Buy Tickets | Buy Passes
Paul Morrissey & Andy Warhol’s infamous, transgressive, and hilarious satire on the big screen!
“Man-hating dykes Jackie (Curtis) and Holly (Woodlawn) plot to recruit bored Long Island socialite Candy (Darling) away from her incestuous relationship with her brother and into joining their militant feminist organization, the Politically Involved Girls, in Paul Morrissey and Andy Warhol’s anarchic satire.
Much has been said about the way that Morrissey and Warhol’s casting of their three trans superstars as cis women was meant to make them the butt of the joke … but in giving Curtis, Darling, and Woodlawn a full hundred minutes to run wild—and pitting them against each other to jockey for screen time—one could argue instead that the film merely serves as both a remarkable showcase for their individual talents and personalities and something of a cautionary tale for what happens when you cast not one but three divas in the same film. Loud, raucous, and maybe a little exhausting, Women in Revolt! is a groundbreaking work of trans cinema and one of the great—if sadly underseen—underground films.” (Liz Purchell)
Screens with Mouse Klub Konfidential (1976, dir. James Robert Baker, 16:00)
An exposé of the shocking life of Mouseketeer-turned-gay bondage pornographer Buddy Wilson. Are Wilson and his degenerate films merely an aberration, or is there more to “the happiest place on Earth” than meets the eye? From the director of Blonde Death comes his almost lost short film, restored by Liz Purchell of Muscle Distribution.
SIMILAR: Trash (1970), Pink Flamingos, Scarecrow in a Garden of Cucumbers
"Their characters certainly weren’t role models or anything of that caliber, but to this day, Women in Revolt stands in defiance of the majority of transgender specific cinema, because Darling, Curtis and Woodlawn are present, and they are never treated as anything less than the women they are. For Warhol, this was the joke, but for anyone watching the film today, it feels radical." - Willow MaclayCo-author of Corpses, Fools and Monsters: The History and Future of Transness in Cinema
"An early, precious example of incendiary "woke is a joke" satire, Revolt is the primordial quaalude-with-a-beer-and-shot-chaser from which subsequent minor masterpieces — Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills, (the original, perfect) Heathers, City of Lost Souls — have sprung, fully-formed, like Chronos' children." - Caroline Goum, Director of Revelations of Divine Love
CONTENT WARNING: Sexual violence, unsimulated sex
Country: United States
Year: 1971
Language: English