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The Beaver Trilogy

Cinecycle
Fri May 15 10:00pm


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	This program has 3 FILMS.

The Beaver Trilogy

The Beaver Trilogy, completed in 2001, combines three vignettes filmed at different times: 1979, 1981 and 1985. The first part, entitled The Beaver Kid, features Richard LaVon Griffiths aka ´Groovin´ Gary,´ a goofy and animated young man that filmmaker, Trent Harris, happens upon while testing his camera for a Utah television station. The filmmaker follows Gary to his hometown of Beaver, Utah, to record a talent show that culminates in Gary´s impassioned rendition of Please Don´t Keep Me Waiting performed by his drag persona, ´Olivia Newton-Don.´

The second part of the trilogy, The Beaver Kid 2, is a slightly fictionalized, low budget, black-and-white recreation of the first chapter that incorporates some of the original documentation. A boyish-and then unknown-Sean Penn, reenacts the nonfiction footage, this time as ´Groovin´ Larry.´

Part three presents The Orkly Kid, yet another recreation starring then unknown Crispin Glover, this time with drag persona ´Olivia Neutron-Bomb.´ Harris adds further context to the story in this big budget dramatization that includes the emotionally fraught aftermath of the Orkly Kid´s gender-subversive performance.

Aside from the remarkable documentary footage and the entirely lovable Groovin´ Gary, a large part of the film´s allure is watching Sean Penn and Crispin Glover take on such small and quirky roles dressing up in Olivia Newton-John drag and singing off-key with heartfelt sincerity. Equally fascinating are the questions that arise in relation to Trent Harris, who casts himself as the exploitative and unsympathetic filmmaker ´Terry,´ and provide further complexity to this examination of documented truth.

Inside Out presents The Beaver Trilogy in honour of the late Groovin´ Gary who died on February 2, 2009.

Please join us after the program at The Beaver Trilogy Party that will include an unforgettable Groovin´ Gary-inspired performance and DJ Will Munro and special guests. The Beaver, 1192 Queen St. W. Language: English

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An animated PSA in which cute little mascots and characters are saddened by the more grown-up themes that they represent.

Please join us after the program at The Beaver Trilogy Party that will include an unforgettable Groovin' Gary-inspired performance and DJ Will Munro and special guests. The Beaver, 1192 Queen St. W. Language: Austrian with Eng Subtitles

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