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VEGAS IN SPACE
1991
Director
Phillip R. Ford
Starring
Doris Fish
Tippi
Miss X
Ramona Fischer
Lori Naslund
Runtime
85 minutes
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Would you change your gender to save the entire universe? The fabulous Captain Tracy Daniels would! When a crime wave on the all-female Planet Clitoris threatens the galactic order, a trio of male astronauts take a pill to switch genders and help Empress Nueva Gabor set things right. Once there, they must Dance! Dance! Dance! to save the universe!
Inspired by a themed party so fabulous that its organizers couldn’t let its decorations go to waste and shot over 18 months in a single apartment with a budget entirely funded by sex work, VEGAS IN SPACE has more wigs than Wigstock and more make up than a Miss America pageant. This oasis of glamour in a sea of mediocrity feels like Leigh Bowery and James Bidgood throwing a ball in the Kuchar Brothers’ attic.
“This is exactly what Georges Méliès thought movies would look like in 1991.” - Louise Ho
“No film embodies drag more clearly than VEGAS IN SPACE, a product of the 1980s San Francisco drag scene, led by the legendary Doris Fish. Part candy-colored sci-fi B-movie, part queer fashion show, part lecture on gender theory. This film taught me everything I needed to know about being a drag queen of today. It’s campy, chaotic, deeply committed, and totally brilliant.” - Sasha Velour
Inspired by a themed party so fabulous that its organizers couldn’t let its decorations go to waste and shot over 18 months in a single apartment with a budget entirely funded by sex work, VEGAS IN SPACE has more wigs than Wigstock and more make up than a Miss America pageant. This oasis of glamour in a sea of mediocrity feels like Leigh Bowery and James Bidgood throwing a ball in the Kuchar Brothers’ attic.
“This is exactly what Georges Méliès thought movies would look like in 1991.” - Louise Ho
“No film embodies drag more clearly than VEGAS IN SPACE, a product of the 1980s San Francisco drag scene, led by the legendary Doris Fish. Part candy-colored sci-fi B-movie, part queer fashion show, part lecture on gender theory. This film taught me everything I needed to know about being a drag queen of today. It’s campy, chaotic, deeply committed, and totally brilliant.” - Sasha Velour