CinemaLit: The Cockettes (2002)
Date and Time for this Past Event
- Friday, Jun 7, 2024 6pm
Location
Mechanics' Institute
57 Post St
Details
June 7 - The Cockettes: The Original Gender Revolutionaries (2002), 99 minutes, directed by David Weissman and Bill Weber, starring Hibiscus and the Cockettes.
In the fall of 1969, an avant-garde hippie performer named Hibiscus formed a theater company out of San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury neighborhood. Though queer men predominated, all were welcome, with no restrictions on gender or gender identity.
The Cockettes mixed sex, psychedelics, political and pop cultural satire, thrift store feather boas, and lots of glitter into frothy, fun, one-of-a-kind theater. David Weissman and Bill Weber's documentary The Cockettes traces the troupe’s complete arc, using archival footage and interviews. The film captures not only the history of the Cockettes but the spirit of the special place and time that was San Francisco in the late ‘60s and early ‘70s.
Co-Director/Producer David Weissman and original Cockettes Scrumbly and Sweet Pam will introduce The Cockettes and answer questions in a post-screening discussion.