Luminous procuress /

Duration: 75

Year Published: 1971

Creator: Nocturnal Dream Shows presents ; produced by Sebastian ; music and voices composed by Warner Jepson ; script, Steven Arnold, Steven Solberg ; directed by Steven Arnold.

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Credits: Arnold, Steven, 1943-1994, film director, screenwriter, director of photography.; Sebastian, 1935- film producer.; Solberg, Steven, screenwriter.; Barber, Victor, editor of moving image work.; Jepson, Warner, composer (expression); Runyon, Scott, costume designer.; Nocturnal Dream Shows, presenter, production company.

Description: "Introducing the Cockettes."--Opening title.; Aspect ratio: 1.33:1; Pacific Film Archive collection; non-circulating. Access by appt. only. CBPF; PFA 1612-01-16897. Restricted: for BAMPFA exhibition only.; Assistant director, Joseph Zaccarella, editor, Victor Barber; costumes, Scott Runyon; make up Koelle; hair creations, Nikki; sets, Skosh, Todd Trexler;; Pandora, The Cockettes (Harlow, Noelle, Nikki, Joseph, Ray Little, Scott Runyon, Michael Dillon, Snosh, Marilyn Harmon, Darsela Harmon, David Kelman, Barbara Kelman, Joann Fadkin, Raggedy Robin, Link, Rumy Missabu, Fayette, John Blood, Toby, Pam Hovland, Lawrence Burrows III, Hibiscus, Charlotte Charlot, Sonya Magill, Laura Dutton, Jeffrie Chin, Michael Ratcliff, Peter Beckers, Tahara, Sandy Saint Garrard, David Meadows, Bill Robbins, Sebastian, John Zaugg, Darryl), with Steven Solberg, Ron Farrell, Doro Franco, Cheryl Fitzpatrick, Ruth Weiss, Lilia King. Voices: Natasha, Shmuel Shenar, Mieko Hasabe, Pietro Maccan, Marie Elene, Monica Baumgartner,; "A gender-obliterating funfest unleashed by the cantankerous cross-dressing Cockettes, the legendary Luminous Procuress is now restored in an immaculate new print that brazenly recounts the mystical passage of two lissome hippie lads who enter a strange mansion where a magic potion promises glimpses of a transformational realm. Led by the mystical "Procuress" (the ever- sculptural Pandora), the two naïfs are privy to a delirious vision of consciousness unbounded by gender or desire. Created in San Francisco's Mission District by Steven Arnold, an art outlier of prophetic leanings, Luminous Procuress, an exotic amalgam of outrageous wearable art, oneiric imagery, and erotically charged tableaux, gloriously drags on."--Steve Seid, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive program note, April 2017.; PFA 1612-01-16897. D0193 preservation acquisition 2015/09/18 CBPF; PFA 1612-01-16897. Edge code: EK 3383. CONDITION NOTE: Inspected 2015/10/25 gc; newish; some lateral rain, base side in board. CONDITION NOTE: Inspected 2015/11/04 js; looks and sounds good on Cinescan, no problems noted.

Metadata Source:BERKELEY ART MUSEUM AND PACIFIC FILM ARCHIVE