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Pyramid Club the Movie

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Pyramid Club the Movie

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To make a tax-deductible contribution, you may donate to the project via our fiscal sponsor Women Make Movies
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Synopsis

Pyramid Club – The Movie transports you to a flourishing nightlife scene in a small dank bar called the Pyramid Cocktail Lounge, affectionately referred to as the Pyramid Club. Located in the gritty, burnt out East Village in 1980s NYC, and under a cloud of drug use, AIDS, and incomprehensible loss, a cadre of drag queens, artists and misfits of all types create a complex artistic phenomenon that continues to transform and inform the face of culture and counter-culture to this day.

QUOTES

It tasted grey. And we sprinkled glitter and glamour on the grey.

~Philly Abe

The Pyramid was really the source club of downtown culture.

~James Romberger

Everything that began to happen at the Pyramid began to happen everywhere else.

~Nelson Sullivan

It was a family of creativity mixing rock and roll, drag, punk, and theatre.

~Jayne County

You don’t have to be pretty. You don’t have to tuck. Drag queens have dicks.

~Flloyd

It wasn’t a stepping stone. It was: this is it. Now we’re at The Pyramid.

~Kestutis Nakis

At the Pyramid, anyone could live whatever dream and reinvent themselves in any way possible.

~Hattie

The Pyramid really was misfit island with misfit toys running the whole show.

~Dana Southern

I would always write up the Pyramid stable of stars. To me they were like the MGM stars only better.  

~Michael Musto

It was the home we all craved.

~John Kelly

Creatures

Guitarist / Artist / Performer
Samoa Moriki
1980s Nightlife Videographer
Nelson Sullivan
Performer / Fiber Artist
Frederick Nunley
Spoken Word Artist
Kennon B. Raines
Artist / Performer / Musician
Michael London Berube (Audrey White)
Fashion Designer / Performer
Animal X
Drag Artist / Writer / Pianist
John Epperson aka Lypsinka
Photographer
John Dugdale
Playwright / Performer
Kestutis Nakas
Collage Artist
Doug Wah
Playwright / Performer
Paul E Alexander
Electronic Musician / Animator
Michael Zodorozny
Retired FDNY Lieutenant / Artist
Dennis Gordon
Prominent Figure in the East Village Drag Scene of the early 1990s
Miss Understood / Alex Heimberg
Fine Artist / Cartoonist
James Romberger
Journalist
Michael Musto
Queen of the Big Wig
Steven 'Perfidia' Kirkham
Writer / Director / Multimedia Artist
John Jesurun
Creative Curator / Collaborator
Susan Martin
Actor / Pyramid Doorperson
Louis Williams
Artist / Writer
Marguerite Van Cook
Freida the Dancing Doll
Barbara Lipp & Tom Koken
Performance Artist
Dana Southern
Musician / Songwriter
Jesse Hultberg
LES Artist/Documentarian
Clayton Patterson

Flyers and Photos

Pyramid Club the Movie benefit

June 2, 2024

at Baker Falls

(former Pyramid Club)

Director Bio

Elizabeth Bouiss, director of Pyramid Club The Movie  is an award winning documentary filmmaker, activist and educator committed to projects that promote social and political awareness, justice and action. A rich personal and family history of activism led her to documentary filmmaking. She uses video and film as a vehicle for expression, outreach, education and change. She earned her BFA in Film and Television Production and MA in Educational Technology from New York University.  Her many film credits include producing, directing and editing.