Director's Cut
John Waters has been thumbing his nose at Hollywood for more than 30 years, creating movies   that are both shocking and hilarious. Now he reveals another obsession, yet another string to his artistic   bow. In this collection of photographs, Waters uses his camera to "re-direct" his favorite   movies, juxtaposing images to create works that explore, expand upon, and sometimes overturn the   intentions of the original directors. InSusan Slade, for example, he distills an early 1960s   melodrama into 16 photographs. The resulting images manage somehow to combine kitschy appeal with a   degree of emotional impact that transcends that of the film itself. Waters also works with images from his   own life and movies--including a sequence filmed in 1966 where Divine plays Jackie Kennedy in a   reenactment  of JFK's assassination. In another bravura performance, Liz Taylor is transformed through   plastic surgery into Waters himself.Waters admits that his project is to photograph "a favorite movie the wayIwant to   remember it, no matter what the original director had in mind." The result is a collection that   documents one man's obsessive and deeply kinky love affair with movies--the kind of love affair in which   one partner brings a whip and the other brings a gallon of olive oil and a volleyball team.