Film archive / Drag Ball

Drag Ball

Director
John Samson
Year
1981
Country
UK
Duration
20 min
A performer in a white gown and feathered headdress walks before an audience, from Drag Ball.

John Samson records the performers, costumes and celebrations at Ron Storme’s drag ball in West London.

Screening history

Trans Sister Seventies! — Toynbee Hall


Toynbee Hall · London

A repeat of Jaye Hudson’s London Short Film Festival programme for Toynbee Hall’s LGBTQ+ over-50 social group.

Trans Sister Seventies!


ICA · London

A London Short Film Festival programme curated by Jaye Hudson, exploring trans lives and self-representation through archival moving images.