• Drifter

Drifter

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A prolific filmmaker who explored documentary, narrative, and experimental cinema, Pat Rocco captured the essence of queer culture in the late 1960s and early ’70s, when it was still largely ignored by the popular media. Having achieved notoriety in the gay underground, Rocco expected his third feature to cross over to general audiences. A West Coast response to Midnight Cowboy, Drifter observes the odyssey of an emotionally ambivalent bisexual hustler (Joed Adair) as he wanders through a series of relationships with men and women, yearning for a sense of belonging in a Southern California characterized by impersonal pick-ups and sex for hire. Playful and irreverent, Rocco‘s films could also be disarmingly earnest and sensitive, and might have found a greater audience had not serious gay narratives remained such a stubborn cultural taboo. As it was, Rocco’s breakthrough film failed to receive commercial distribution, and for decades Drifter remained virtually unseen. Fifty years later, Kino Cult celebrates Rocco‘s magnum opus with a 2K restoration from the original 16mm A/B negatives preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive, setting the stage for a reappraisal of Rocco’s eclectic and historically significant body of work.
Format
Format Blu-Ray
Film
Year 1974
Rating 18
Director Pat Rocco
Starring Jon Adair
David Russell
Bambi Allen
Joe Caruso
Inga Marie
Dean Shah-Kee
Ann Collins
Gerald Strickland
Country USA
Label Kino Cult
Region / TV Standard Region 0
Language English
Subtitles English
Running time 98 mins
Aspect ratio 1.37:1
Case type Standard with slipcover
Extra features • Audio Commentary by Film Historian Finley Freibert
• Four Short Films by Pat Rocco
          Autumn Nocturne (1968, 24 Min.)
          A Matter of Life (1968, 14 Min. Featuring Joed Adair)
          Strip Strip (1968, 5 Min.)
          Sunny Boys (1968, 3 Min.)

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