Hibiscus

Movies4

• Movie

  Documentary

  A documentary profile on Rumi Missabu, the iconoclast cofounder of San Francisco's infamous Cockettes. Through archive footage, animation and new interviews with stars from SF's queer art past, his lurid tales in and out of the spotlight are revealed as he reinvents himself at the end of his life.

  Ruminations

  2018

• Movie6.9

  Documentary

  Documentary about the gender-bending San Francisco performance group who became a pop culture phenomenon in the early 1970s.

  The Cockettes

  2002 · 20 votes

• Movie

  Documentary

  Pickup's Tricks is a beat documentary of Hibiscus and the Cockettes, who were pioneers of San Francisco’s underground queer theater in the early '70s. It is a multifarious blend of sexual anarchy; a raucous and unscripted mix of liberation and elation as rough and spirited as the lifestyle that created it. The film profiles Hibiscus, founding member of the Cockettes, the psychedelic drag queens that performed midnight musicals at the Palace Theater in San Francisco. The film includes a rare screen appearance of Allen Ginsberg, clean-shaven and costumed in "acute drag" as a Yiddishe Mama with a painted-on third eye. (pickupstricks.com)

  Pickup's Tricks

  1973

• Movie5.0

  HorrorComedy

  The underpaid staff of a seedy hotel rises up in revolt, and by the time head elevator girl Maxine starts spouting a surreal mix of folk songs and Marxist maxims, followed by an uproariously explicit sex scene, you’ll be ready to join the cause.

  Elevator Girls in Bondage

  1972 · 9 votes