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AUGUST 1,2008 final edit. The reason it’s taking so long? “I could clean it up more, get the timing better, do more in teresting color correction. When I was a kid, I would turn in schcxd projects two weeks late, not be cause I was a procrastinator but because I thought there were still things to he done. I couldn’t let it go. But at a certain point, you’ve got to let go.” Kyle has a slightly different Sissyboy: A Documentary gives viewers a fly-on-the-wall take: “This is Devan’s swan song, perspective on the defunct drag troupe. his goodbye to Portland before he McGrath agrees: “When you’re doing some leaves for film school. This is something he can thing campy, the tendency is to go for the cliché. share with his new friends in Chicago, something It was good to have that challenge; it makes you to give back to Portland and Sissyboy.” push it.” Thomas adds: “Sissyboy was always a com Production itself proved to he a challenge promise, fast and dirty and amazing and super as well. The original idea, hatched hy Kyle and cool, but you never got to see the potential of Darling, was to shoot something “quick and what all of us could do on a big project. I was dirty” that wouldn’t take much time or resources. excited to see that. Devan’s the one who’s mov However, when McGrath and Thomas became ing forward in his career; for me, it was a good involved, the project grew into something much bye to performance art. I’m done and satiated. more ambitious. I just wanted to do one last big thing to see what “Splendora Dearest was shot in an afternoon,” all my friends are capable of.” says McGrath. “It had a kind of script, but mostly As far as the documentary goes, none of the we were just watching Mommie Dearest, then boys have seen it yet, nor do they know what the turning around and shooting that junk shot for focus will be or how they will be portrayed. shot. Zebra and I wanted this to be self-contained. “Katie Turinski, the director, was a fly on the Whether or not you’ve seen the original, it still wall. I forgot she was even there,” Thomas says. makes sense, it’s still funny. Nobody, though, re McGrath disagrees: “Everyone’s a performer. ally anticipated that it would be such a big proj You get to the point where it’s like you’re comfort ect...I just kind of went crazy with it.” able and it’s like you’re natural. But I never forgot McGrath began by watching a subtitled What she was there. I feel like people were always step Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, pausing to write ping it up just a notch. I mean, people were being down dialogue and description. Then he and real and honest, just...people were being their Thomas began cutting, inserting jokes and per most interesting selves.” sonalizing the script for their stars. The writing Thomas adds: “1 know there are going to be some alone took three months. incredibly embarrassing moments for me. She’s like Barbara Walters—she made me cry twice. "© Just how long it took to actually shoot the film is up for debate. McGrath says it tcxik exactly a month; Kyle remembers something closer to eight weeks. Regardless, the film looks strikingly differ ent from anything Sissyboy has ever done, alter nating between a color-saturated screen and one subdued in a swath of black and white. According to McGrath, much of the Icxik has to do with director of photography Travis Blue, a new addition to Sissyboy Films. “If I had shot it myself, it would not look this gcxxl,” he says. As of press time, McGrath was still cutting the jUStjOUtXI A MASTERPIECE. The movie intelligent filmgoers have waited for all year. An artistic triumph in a class by itself.” Uta Rex Reed, NEW YORK® OBSERVER gk, ufc) Marshall Fine, Star GK, BRIDES REVISITE P rivilege . A mbition . D esire . 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