P.S. Burn This Letter Please
May's Top 30 Films
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1h 45m
Directed by Michael Seligman & Jennifer Tiexiera • Documentary • With Michael Alogna, Henry Arango • 2022 • 101 minutes
A demi-monde that would have been lost to time were it not for the chance find of a treasure trove of letters in a storage bin in LA. Written by drag queens all using aliases to a friend (who turns out to be famous and revealed at the end) who moved to LA, the film is a voyage of discovery of the irreverence, fun, kinship, and all manner of illicit activity which made up the drag scene in the late 50’s in NYC. Over several years, the filmmakers pieced together the jigsaw of who the various letters’ authors were and matched them with archival material and current-day interviews. The result is a big-hearted, guilty-pleasured escape to a bygone era.
*Premiere: Tribeca Film Festival
"P.S. Burn This illuminates countless fascinating aspects of the New York drag scene, its joys and challenges and the way it helped to break down barriers." —The Hollywood Reporter
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