Camilo And Ocana

A program comprised of two videos by the libertarian collective Video-Nou (Barcelona, 1976 – 83): Actuació d’Ocaña i Camilo and Ocaña. Exposició a la Galería Mec-Mec (1977) portray Andalusian, anarchist, artist, thespian and cross-dresser Ocaña, her best-friend Camilo, the underground cartoonist Nazario, the camera operators, and more people reporting their work and lives, reciting, singing, dancing, making themselves up, and hanging out together. Projected along with the reading of a selection of passages containing Esther Newton’s portrayals of Tiger, Billy, Tris, Godiva, Lola, Jim, Jean, Dodi Turner, Bo Sutter, Wanda, Jane, Judy, Gus, Tim, Bonnie, and others in her essay Mother Camp: Female Impersonators in America (1972).