Waxie Moon
Waxie Moon is a documentary directed by Wes Hurley and centered on the gender- bending Juilliard- trained burlesque performer, Waxie Moon.
The film captures the burgeoning and mostly- queer neo-burlesque community in Seattle in the 2000s.
It features interviews with dozens of performers and artists, including the burlesque icons Miss Dirty Martini and Tigger!, author and performer Marya Sea Kaminski, drag superstar BenDeLaCreme, and many others.
The film also includes the original song, titled" Waxie Moon", which was inspired by James Bond scores.
The song was composed by Eric Lane Barnes of the Seattle Men's Chorus and Seattle Women's Chorus, and performed by Sarah Rudinoff and Paul Rosenberg.
" Waxie Moon" premiered in Austin, Texas and went on to screen at the Anthology Film Archives, Echo Park Film Center, and at many festivals around the world, including a dozen screenings in Seattle.
The film won Best Local Film at the Seattle Lesbian& Gay Film Festival, Jury Award for Best Film at Queer Fruits Film Festival in Australia, and Best Film, Best Director, Best Cinematography, Best Editing and Best Soundtrack at Love Unlimited Film Festival.
It is available on video from TLAvideo.
Waxie Moon (performer)
Waxie Moon is a gender- bending neo- burlesque persona of the performer Marc Kenison.
Kenison studied modern dance at Juilliard School and acting at University of Washington.
During his six years dancing for the Jose Limon Company, Kenison performed for the White House and toured other parts of the world, including the war- torn Sarajevo and El Salvador.
After co-founding the Washington Ensemble Theater in Seattle, Kenison turned to burlesque and created Waxie Moon, whom he describes as" the gender- blending queer lady boylesque performance art solo stripping sensation".
In 2009 Waxie Moon became the subject of Wes Hurley's documentary of the same name.
The documentary" Waxie Moon" won several awards including Best Local Film at the Seattle Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, Jury Award at Queer Fruits Festival in Australia and Best Film at Love Unlimited Film Festival.
The film is distributed by TLA Video.
Waxie Moon is also the star and co-writer of" Waxie Moon in Fallen Jewel", a cult comedy directed by Wes Hurley and was featured in" A Wink and a Smile" by Deirdre Timmons.
In 2009 Waxie Moon, Lou Henry Hoover and Inga Ingenue co -founded the dance troupe" Dance Belt" which has been voted the Sexiest Dance Troupe by" The Stranger".
In 2014, artist Anna- Lisa Notter unveiled a large mural of Waxie Moon above Seattle's iconic Pike Place Market.
Waxie Moon is the star of Wes Hurley's acclaimed comedy series Capitol Hill which premiered in 2014 on Huffington Post and is distributed in Europe by OutTV.
Matt Corboy
Matt Corboy( born June 4, 1973) is an American actor.
He has appeared in both films and television series.
Wes Hurley
Wes Hurley is an American movie director, writer and producer.
He is known for his ongoing collaborations with Seattle's popular theater, drag, and cabaret performers and artists including Waxie Moon, Sarah Rudinoff, Jinkx Monsoon, BenDeLaCreme, Jackie Hell, and others.
Born and raised in Vladivostok, Russia Hurley is best known for raising awareness of human rights violations in Russia and for his cult films including" Waxie MoonWaxie Moon in Fallen JewelZolushkaPeter and the Wolf" and the popular series Capitol Hill.
In 2013 Hurley was chosen as one of the Artists of the Year by City Arts Magazine along with Megan Griffiths, Macklemore, Ryan Lewis, and Jinkx Monsoon.
In 2014 Hurley premiered his original comedy series Capitol Hill on Huffington Post.
He was chosen as a Person to Watch in 2015 by The Advocate.
Moon In-soo
Moon In-soo( born 1945) is a South Korean poet.
Waxie Moon in Fallen Jewel
Waxie Moon in Fallen Jewel is a 2011 pop- art musical comedy from cult filmmaker, Wes Hurley.
It stars the renowned performance artist, Marc Kenison as his gender- bending burlesque personae Waxie Moon, as well as The Stranger Genius- award winners, Sarah Rudinoff, Marya Sea Kaminski and John Osebold, Nick Garison, Keira McDonald, Sage Price, Brandon Petty, Erin Emlyn Badenhop, Inga Ingenue, Lou Henry Hoover, with memorable cameos by Jinkx Monsoon, Lynn Shelton and Jackie Hell, among others.
The film also features an original soundtrack with music by Campfire OK, Jose Bold, Gretta Harley, We Are Golden, The Little Penguins and Brendan Patrick Hogan.
Two songs were arranged and recorded exclusively for the film by Eric Lane Barnes- his original composition" Everything is on Fire" performed by Sarah Rudinoff and a techno version of" Cold Song" performed by Nick Garison.
Wade Madsen, Anna Allen, Inga Ingenue and Waxie Moon choreographed the film's many dance sequences.
Several hundred looks were created for over 200 performers by the costume and makeup designer, Harmony Arnold.
The Genius- award winner Jennifer Zeyl served as the art director for the film.
Although, primarily a comedy," Waxie Moon in Fallen Jewel" experiments with narrative structure by switching genres to mirror Waxie's social standing and emotional state, and in the process eschews Hollywood's traditional treatment of its female protagonists.
Other experimental elements in the film include the generous use of Bertolt Brecht's alienation effect and its highly stylized movement and blocking, which often reference choreographers such as Martha Graham.
Lisa Steele
Lisa Steele( born 1947 in Kansas City, Missouri) is a Canadian artist, a pioneer in video art, educator, curator and co-founder of Vtape in Toronto.
Born in the United States, Steele moved to Canada in 1968 and is now a Canadian citizen.
She has collaborated exclusively with her partner Kim Tomczak since the early 1980s.
Kevin Howarth
Kevin Howarth is a British film actor, best known for his roles as Max in" The Last Horror Movie", Peter in" Summer Scars" and Viktor in" The Seasoning House".
Birthday Suit – with scars and defects
Birthday Suit – with scars and defects( 1974) is a thirteen- minute black and white video art tape by Canadian artist Lisa Steele.
It is her best known early work and depicts Steele" present[ ing] her naked body to the unblinking gaze of the camera".
The tape itself is characterized by common practices of early video art, unedited with a static shot.
Steele turns the camera on, walks to the end of the room/ set and removes her clothing.
She approaches the camera and begins to examine the various scars she's accumulated over her life up to that point.
The work represents what critic Dot Tuer indicates is" an offering to the technological gaze[ which] downplays the representation of the body as a gendered subject," and as film historian Catherine Russell points out, the work is a" counter- image to the emergent critique of the female body in narrative cinema."
Steele's description of the work:" On the occasion of my 27th birthday I decided to do a tape that chronicled my passage through time.
I have always been clumsy, tripping, dropping, falling with alarming regularity.
This tape accepts the extent of the consequences."
" Birthday Suit – with scars and defects" was selected by Toronto International Film Festival as an essential part of Canada's cultural legacy.
William Henry (actor)
William Albert Henry( November 10, 1914 – August 10, 1982) was an American actor who worked in both films and television.

Question: Do both films: Waxie Moon In Fallen Jewel and Birthday Suit – With Scars And Defects have the directors from the same country?
Answer: no