John Waters: O Papa do Lixo que Radicalizou o Cinema Queer

John Waters is known by most as the director of Hairspray. But that's the more domesticated Waters. To understand what he truly did for queer cinema, we need to go back to the 70s, when he filmed on the streets of Baltimore with minimal budgets and Divine as his muse. In this video, I tell the story of John Waters, the Pope of Trash, his influences (Kenneth Anger, Andy Warhol, and the Kuchar brothers), and the concepts that define his cinema: camp, trash aesthetics, and marginality as protagonist. I talk about Pink Flamingos, Female Trouble, Desperate Living, Polyester, and Hairspray, and how he migrated from the underground to the mainstream without abandoning his essence. This is the second episode of the series Queer Cinema and LGBT+ Cinema. #JohnWaters #QueerCinema #historyofcinema