Wig (2019) [N/A]
Featuring:
Joey Arias, Kevin Aviance, Fenton Bailey
Directed by:
Chris Moukarbel
Release Date:
May 4, 2019
Original Title:
Wig
Alternate Titles:
Wig: The Cultural History of Drag
Genres:
Documentary
Production Companies:
HBO Documentary Films
Matador Content
Sky Movies
Production Countries:
United States of America
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
Runtime: 89
A New York drag story
Spotlighting the art of drag, and centered on the New York staple Wigstock, this documentary showcases the personalities and performances that inform the ways we understand queerness, art and identity today.
Wigstock was an annual drag festival which glamorously signaled the end of summer for the gay community in New York City for almost 20 years. Late one night in 1984, Lady Bunny and a few friends drunkenly wandered from the Pyramid Club in the East Village to Tompkins Square Park and staged an impromptu drag show in the bandshell. This would soon become an annual drag bacchanal that lasted up until 2001. And now, Lady Bunny has brought it back. This past summer, the festival returned, bringing together legendary queens with some of the new children of drag, into one of the largest drag performances ever staged. Wig explores the origins and the influence of the historic festival through rich archival footage, as well as provides a look into the contemporary drag movement that the festival served as a foundation for. Wig is a celebration of New York drag culture, and those personalities and performances that contribute to the ways we understand queerness, art, and identity today.
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