Bearded Ladies: The Photography of Rosamond Norbury
- Director: Sharon McGowan
- Producer: John T. Boe; Sharon McGowan
CGiii Comment
A hint of Vancouver photographer Rosamond Norbury’s many surprises emerges once she shows you the prints: black-and-white nudes, homoerotic cowboys, and bearded ladies. Better Than Chocolate producer Sharon McGowan gives us a Norbury that “illuminates the peripheral” from her photography career’s start in the rodeo world, to drag queen culture, to the TV series Kink and beyond.
This edgy local documentary offers though-provoking interviews on Norbury’s early life and her dad “the original drag queen in [her] life,” before moving on to Norbury’s identity as omnisexual and her alter egos Rod Bush, the greaser gay boy, and Rose Bush, the flourishing queen. A groundbreaking artist fully entrenched in the communities she photographs, Norbury shifts the phallocentric culture of photography to an unknown place, or in her words: into a “surprise that unfolds in front of me.”
No trailer...there was a trailer but it has since disappeared!
Cast & Characters
Barbara Alexandre as Herself;
Glenn Alteen as Himself;
Stacey Ando as Herself;
Barbara Beeby as Herself;
Chris Bolton as Himself and Connie Smudge;
Sheila Dickie as Herself;
June Fukumura as Herself;
Diane Holme as Herself;
Carl McDonald as Himself and Carlotta Gurl;
Rosamond Norbury as Herself;
Christina Savage as Herself;
Elle-Maija Tailfeathers as Herself;
Elizabeth Thomson as Herself;
Joanne Thomson as Herself;
Keith Wallace as Himself