(John Cameron Mitchell, 2001, USA, 91 minutes)

Free admission!

With this trailblazing musical, writer-director-star John Cameron Mitchell and composer-lyricist Stephen Trask brought their signature creation from stage to screen for a movie as unclassifiable as its protagonist. Raised a boy in East Berlin, Hedwig (Mitchell) undergoes a traumatic personal transformation in order to emigrate to the U.S., where she reinvents herself as an “internationally ignored” but divinely talented rock diva, characterized by Mitchell as inhabiting a “beautiful gender of one.” The film tells Hedwig’s story through her music, an eclectic assortment of original punk anthems and power ballads by Trask, matching them with a freewheeling cinematic mosaic of music-video fantasies, animated interludes, and moments of bracing emotional realism. A hard-charging song cycle and a tender character study, Hedwig and the Angry Inch is a tribute to the transcendent power of rock and roll.

Co-presented with Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis. Event link here.

Mark Your Calendars for Behind this Mask: Celebrating Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore
Saturday, June 13, 2:00–5:00 pm at Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, 3750 Washington Boulevard

On June 13, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis presents "Behind this Mask: Celebrating Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore," to commemorate the artists' creativity and activism explored in the current exhibition on view at CAM and their continued resonance to this day. This free program presents live excerpts of new artistic works by Elizabeth Hoover and John Cameron Mitchell as well as a conversation between Jennifer Shaw and exhibition co-curators Dean Daderko and Svetlana Kitto, along with Hoover and Mitchell.