Dressing up is ‘culturally deep within us’,says director Stephan Elliott, whose film The Adventures of Priscilla, or Queen of the Desert is being thrown a fabulous 21st in the form of a three-day festival of drag in rural unique South Wales• Sequins and thongs: the drag queens of Broken Heel festival – in picturesAs a kid,Anthony Carthew watched Mad Max 2 car chases from his front door. It was 1981 and the crew was staying in the outback town of Broken Hill and filming on Silverton Road where Carthew lived.“We had a property on the edge of town,” he says. “Out the back door, and the red dirt went on forever with the saltbush and sunsets.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com