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Ruminations / Nureality Productions presents ; a Robert James film ; produced by Nick Blond ; written, produced and directed by Robert James.

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Format:
Video
Contributor:
James, Robert (Documentary filmmaker), film director, film producer.
Missabu, Rumi, 1947-
Bowers, Bill.
Persona, Donna.
Puppy Love.
Jeffreys, Joe E.
Williams, Cindy, 1947 August 22-2023
Burnside, Jonathan, composer.
NuReality Productions, publisher.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Missabu, Rumi, 1947-.
Missabu, Rumi.
Cockettes (Theatrical troupe).
Hippies--California--San Francisco.
Hippies.
Counterculture--California--San Francisco.
Counterculture.
Experimental theater--California--San Francisco.
Experimental theater.
Female impersonators--United States.
Female impersonators.
California--San Francisco.
United States.
LGBTQ+ theatre.
Genre:
documentary film.
Motion pictures
Documentary films
Nonfiction films
Documentary films.
Nonfiction films.
Motion pictures.
Physical Description:
1 videodisc (79 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Edition:
Unrated and uncut.
Place of Publication:
[Berkeley] : NuReality Productions, [2021]
Language Note:
English dialogue.
System Details:
DVD-R, NTSC; widescreen (1.78:1) presentation.
digital
optical
video file
DVD video
Summary:
"Who in the Hell is Rumi Missabu?" Find out as we follow the wild life of a counter-culture and drag icon who would eventually become known as Rumi Missabu. A founding member of the radical queer performance group, The Cockettes, Rumi leaves Hollywood a trained child actor and dives headfirst into the LSD fueled hippie culture of San Francisco. The lifestyle and brief brush with celebrity leads to Rumi burning out and disappearing off the grid for decades. Through anecdotes and interviews with the "male actress" at its center, as well as fever-dream animation bringing to life those tales too outlandish to go unseen, Ruminations explores a cult performance legend's rise, fall, and re-emergence at the end of his life
'Who in the Hell is Rumi Missabu?' Find out as we follow the wild life of a counter-culture and drag icon who woul'd eventually become known as Rumi Missabu. A founding member of the radical queer performance group, The Cockettes, Rumi leaves Hollywood a trained child actor and dives headfirst into the LSD fueled hippie culture of San Francisco. The lifestyle and brief brush with celebrity leads to Rumi burning out and disappearing off the grid for decades. Through anecdotes and interviews with the 'male actress' at its center, as well as fever-dream animation bringing to life those tales too outlandish to go unseen, Ruminations explores a cult performance legend's rise, fall, and re-emergence at the end of his life.
Participant:
Featuring Rumi Missabu, Bill Bowers, Donna Personna, Tahara, Carl with Records, Puppy Love, Joe E. Jeffreys, Cindy Williams.
Credits:
Cinematography, Nick Blond, Rudy Behrens ; editors, Nick Blond, Rudy Behrens ; music, Jonathan Burnside.
Notes:
Title from web page and container.
Originally produced in 2018.
Includes the film Elevator girls in Bondage.
Originally released as a motion picture in 2018.
Wide screen (16:9)
Contains:
Elevator girls in bondage.
OCLC:
1263288738
Publisher Number:
810072544407

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