Movie Night: Hedwig and the Angry Inch

*Let's go see this super queer film together, co-hosted by Webster University and the Contemporary Art Museum. This event is free and open seating.* Directed by John Cameron Mitchell, 2001, USA, 91 minutes As a complement to the program Behind this Mask: Celebrating Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore, Webster University is co-presenting a free screening of *Hedwig and the Angry Inch.* For this trailblazing musical, writer-director-star John Cameron Mitchell and composer-lyricist Stephen Trask brought their signature creation from stage to screen for a movie as unclassifiable as its protagonist. Raised a boy in East Berlin, Hedwig (Mitchell) undergoes a traumatic personal transformation in order to emigrate to the U.S., where she reinvents herself as an “internationally ignored” but divinely talented rock diva, characterized by Mitchell as inhabiting a “beautiful gender of one.” The film tells Hedwig’s story through her music, an eclectic assortment of original punk anthems and power ballads by Trask, matching them with a freewheeling cinematic mosaic of music-video fantasies, animated interludes, and moments of bracing emotional realism. A hard-charging song cycle and a tender character study, *Hedwig and the Angry Inch* is a tribute to the transcendent power of rock and roll. Co-presented with Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis. *Mark Your Calendars for [Behind this Mask: Celebrating Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore](https://camstl.org/event/behind-this-mask-celebrating-claude-cahun-and-marcel-moore/)* *Saturday, June 13, 2:00–5:00 pm at Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, 3750 Washington Boulevard* ***On June 13, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis presents "Behind this Mask: Celebrating Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore," to commemorate the artists' creativity and activism explored in the current exhibition on view at CAM and their continued resonance to this day. This…