The disnnect between the stggl of different generatns of gay men is one of most joyful through l of 'Swan Song.'
Contents:
- 'SWAN SONG' IS A 'LOVE LETTER' TO DISAPPEARG GAY CULTURE, DIRECTOR SAYS
- NEW FILM ‘SWAN SONG’ CELEBRAT AN AGG GAY MAN'S LAST HURRAH
- ‘SWAN SONG’ DIRECTOR TODD STEPHENS PAYS TRIBUTE TO SANDKY HAIRDRSER THAT BEME HIS ME & OTHER “FOREFATHERS” IN GAY COMMUNY – SXSW STUD
'SWAN SONG' IS A 'LOVE LETTER' TO DISAPPEARG GAY CULTURE, DIRECTOR SAYS
Director Todd Stephens and actor Udo Kier pay homage to hairdrser and gay bar owner Pat Psenbarger. * swan song gay hairdresser *
It's a narrative film, but the protagonist, Pat Psenbarger was a well-known flamboyant gay hairdrser Sandky. If somebody om a generatn like me - I'm 76 - bee, you know, when - I thk when he was young and you went to a gay bar, was like you were lookg left and right before you stepped the bar. Pat Psenbarger, a real-life hairdrser and queer legend Sandky, Oh, was the first gay person filmmaker Todd Stephens ever knew.
When we were lookg to st Pat, we were lookg for someone who wouldn't play a cliched gay man, someone who wouldn't play him mpy and over-the-top, " Stephens says.
NEW FILM ‘SWAN SONG’ CELEBRAT AN AGG GAY MAN'S LAST HURRAH
Film in Udo Kier has received some of the bt reviews of his reer for playg a retired gay hairdrser 'Swan Song.' * swan song gay hairdresser *
"Pat was there the first time I went to my first gay bar, the Universal F and Nut Company. "Pat, 1977, opened the first gay bar Sandky. In the procs of llectg bety suppli across town, Pat, whose solary existence Sandky is brought to foc as one of the last survivg gay men of his generatn, begs to nont the ghosts of his past on his way to the funeral home.
"'Swan Song' is a love letter to the rapidly disappearg 'gay culture' of Ameri, ” Stephens wrote his director’s statement.
”After a year of pre-productn, the low-budget film entered productn for 18 days and was shot almost entirely chronologil orr, allowg Kier to take a more methodil and immersive approach to embodyg one of the town’s former gay ins. “I like to ll like a post-gay film or post-g-out film. Beg gay is not the nflict; the nflict is gettg old, the nflict is losg your love for what you love to do, losg your purpose, ” he said.
‘SWAN SONG’ DIRECTOR TODD STEPHENS PAYS TRIBUTE TO SANDKY HAIRDRSER THAT BEME HIS ME & OTHER “FOREFATHERS” IN GAY COMMUNY – SXSW STUD
Wrer-director Todd Stephens returns to his hometown, and the settg of his 1998 gay g of age movie Edge of Seventeen—Sandky, Oh—for his latt feature Swan Song, which received s world premiere at SXSW Onle today. Screen legend Udo Kier stars as Pat Psenbarger, a retired gay hairdrser livg a monotono existence a hospal-like… * swan song gay hairdresser *
Half a generatn of gay men died, " he said. Wrer-director Todd Stephens met the real life Pat Psenbarger a small town gay bar, and he turned that person to this engagg story by stg the great Udo Kier the lead. The two old iends toast the bygone days of their gay club, while also acknowledgg the new world of the gay muny.
Perhaps we need more movi about old maybe more specifilly, old gay men! He is a retired hairdrser and gay baret performer who liv a nursg home.