Nelson Sullivan's Video Diaries

Nelson Sullivan's Video Diaries

1989 · 120 min · ★ 1.0 · Documentary

From 1983 to 1989, New Yorker Nelson Sullivan captured more than 1,900 hours of video footage and saved most of it on VHS tapes, making a collection of 601 episodes documenting his everyday life in the East-Village, as well as following some flamboyant local icons like RuPaul, Sylvia Miles, and Phoebe Legere.

Directed by Nelson Sullivan

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Jayne County Herself
Phoebe Legere Herself
Sylvia Miles Herself
Michael Musto Himself
Tom Rubnitz Himself
RuPaul Himself
John Sex Himself
Nelson Sullivan Himself
Christina Self - Drag Queen (as Club Kid Christina)

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Nelson Sullivan · 1989

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Nelson Sullivan, a videographer in Manhattan circa 1983 to 1989, documented a large chunk of the final six years of his life, capturing his days and nights with drag queens and other NYC outcasts of the time. His style takes on a "home movie quality" that captures a lost - and now romanticized - American era in all of its mundane glory.

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