Andy Warhol described Jackie Curtis as “A pioneer without a frontier.” In this biographical documentary, Curtis’s co-workers and friends speak of her work and her influence, along with clips from Curtis’s Warhol films as well as never-before-seen footage from her stage shows.
Direction
Highberger lets Curtis's friends speak, no narrator needed.
Editing
Rare footage stitched like a drag queen's thrift store masterpiece.
Director
Craig Highberger
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
David Bowie appears in archive footage but declined to be interviewed, reportedly feeling he'd already 'taken enough' from Curtis's aesthetic.
Curtis coined 'drag' as we know it—before her, it meant traveling in women's clothes; she made it theater, protest, and poetry.
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