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NY's MUSCLEFEST: Part Film Festival, Part Celebration of Underground Trans and Queer Cinema
Running September 3-6, Muscle Distribution and the Roxy Cinema present MuscleFest, a four-night mini-festival celebrating the distributor's deep-cut restorations, alongside a fearless slate of underground trans and queer cinema. I discovered Muscle Distribution last year at Fantastic Fest with their restoration of Dildo Heaven, the charming "Nudie Cutie" from octogenarian filmmaker and "Queen of Sexploitation" Doris Wishman. Working at a sex shop in Miami in the early '90s, Wishman directed the delightfully shameless, all-top-no-bottoms romp while she was in her late 80s. The completed film premiered at the New York Underground Film Festival just months before her death from lymphoma, before being released posthumously on video in 2002--and, like so many of the films Muscle champions, largely disappearing from the conversation. What really sold me...
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