Pyramid Club the Movie
Acker Awards | March 10, 2025 @ 7pm | Theatre for the New City
Celebrated Lower East Side Artists, Past and Present
Artwork by Anthony Zito
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Pyramid Club the Movie
Trailer
Acker Awards | March 10, 2025 @ 7pm | Theatre for the New City
Celebrated Lower East Side Artists, Past and Present
Artwork by Anthony Zito
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
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.
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