Paris Is Burning

Directed by Jennie Livingston

A chronicle of New York's vibrant drag scene in the 1980s, highlighting balls, voguing, and dreams of its participants.
Paris Is Burning is one of the defining documentaries about New York’s ballroom culture, capturing extraordinary wit, style and resilience alongside poverty, racism and exclusion. Jennie Livingston’s unobtrusive camera gives its subjects room to define themselves, and the result remains vibrant, funny and heartbreaking. Its influence on popular culture has only grown.

Paris Is Burning

Directed by Jennie Livingston

A chronicle of New York's vibrant drag scene in the 1980s, highlighting balls, voguing, and dreams of its participants.

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Paris Is Burning is one of the defining documentaries about New York’s ballroom culture, capturing extraordinary wit, style and resilience alongside poverty, racism and exclusion. Jennie Livingston’s unobtrusive camera gives its subjects room to define themselves, and the result remains vibrant, funny and heartbreaking. Its influence on popular culture has only grown.