This is a special screening – DonLife will be bringing the party and DJ’ing outside the bar between 7pm – 8pm. Grab yourself a drink and soak in the genre-bending sounds that have been influenced by Little Richard, before watching the review-smashing documentary…
Weaving together archive footage and interviews Little Richard: I Am Everything
uncovers the story of the Black queer origins of rock n’ roll, exploding the whitewashed canon of American pop music to reveal the innovator – the originator– Richard Penniman. Through a wealth of archive and performance that brings us into Richard’s complicated inner world, the film unspools the icon’s life story with all its switchbacks and contradictions. In interviews with family, musicians, and cutting-edge Black and queer scholars, the film reveals how Richard created an art form for ultimate self-expression, yet what he gave to the world he was never able to give to himself. Throughout his life, Richard careened like a shiny cracked pinball between God, sex and rock n’ roll. The world tried to put him in a box, but Richard was an omni being who contained multitudes – he was unabashedly everything.
Starring:
Little Richard, John Waters, Billy Porter, Mick Jagger, Nile Rogers, Paul McCartney
Directed By:
Lisa Cortes