UCLA Film and Television Archive presents the exuberant documentary "The Cockettes" and the underground film spoof "Tricia's Wedding" on Saturday, Nov. 19, 7:30 p.m. at the Hammer Museum's Billy Wilder Theater.
"The Cockettes" (2002) follows the groundbreaking psychedelic drag performance troupe from its formation amid San Francisco’s commune scene in 1969 to its infamous off-Broadway debut in 1971, and beyond. Named the best non-fiction film of 2002 by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, "The Cockettes" blends archival footage and interviews to conjure the heady spirit of cultural, sexual and personal liberation that informed and inspired them.
Also screening is "Tricia's Wedding" (1971), the Cockettes' hilarious, dazzling underground-film spoof of the wedding of Tricia Nixon, daughter of President Richard Nixon, in the White House Rose Garden.
Attending the screening will be Bill Weber and David Weissman, who directed "The Cockettes," and former Cockettes manager Sebastian. Buy tickets online here. Both films are the latest in the UCLA Legacy Project Screening Series.
