Film

PROVINCETOWN 300: FILM & TV

The history of film and television in Provincetown is the story of a town that became a refuge for creative risk-takers. Like the Provincetown Players transformed American theater and Charles…

THERE’S NO BUSINESS LIKE DOUGH BUSINESS

A Film by Michael S. Koehler Spiritus: No Business Like Dough Business is more than a documentary about a beloved Provincetown institution — it’s a fast, funny, deeply human portrait…

YVONNE ANDERSON (1932 – )

FILM ::: MAKERS ::: ART ::: Yvonne Andersen was born on September 7, 1932, in the United States. Her journey into the world of animation began with her education at Louisiana State…

ANTHONY PERKINS (1932 – 1992)

FILM ::: Certainly led a colorful life—as did those who came before him and after him. Anthony Perkins didn’t arrive out of nowhere; he came down a long, strange American line…

COOKIE MUELLER (1949 – 1989)

FILM ::: DREAMLANDERS ::: Dorothy Karen Mueller is born in Baltimore, Maryland — the person who would later rename herself Cookie and turn autobiography into performance art. In her 1985 BOMB Magazine piece…

DIVINE (1945 – 1988)

FILM ::: DREAMLANDERS ::: Harris Glenn Milstead was the most notorious of the John Waters Dreamlander circus. Divine transformed the art of female impersonation into modern drag. He was overweight, overindulgent and over-the-top….

JOHN WATERS (1946 – )

FILM ::: MAKERS ::: DREAMLANDERS ::: Though he was making independent films throughout the 60s, it wasn’t until 1972 that he and his Baltimore Dreamlanders offended the western world with the release of Pink Flamingos. The…

RED(ish)

  REDISH is the deconstruction of the 1981 film, “Reds” focusing on the connection of Jack Reed, Louise Bryant, Mary Heaton Vorse, Mabel Dodge, Neith Boyce and others and how…