Short film
The Bindlestiff Family Cirkus
2000 · 13 min
A warm, intimate peek at a quirky found family of performers, celebrating their craft and community with playful energy.
- Directed by
- Jonas Woolverton
- Genres
- Documentary
- Starring
- Keith Nelson, Stephanie Monseu
- Overview
- The Bindlestiff Family Cirkus follows a sex-positive, socially conscious troupe of contemporary circus, vaudeville, burlesque and sideshow performers behind the scenes during their annual Winter Cabaret in Brooklyn and regional tours of the United States and Canada. Step right up as this close-knit, hybrid family of self-affirming "misfits", led by founders Stephanie Monseu and Keith Nelson, seeks to preserve ancient performance and American variety art forms in the modern world.
- How it feels
- Warm, whimsical, campy and earnest. Brisk and easy to follow.
- About
- Found family, identity, art, friendship
- Content
- Mild sexual content and language. No violence or gore.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Directed by
- Jonas Woolverton
- Genres
- Documentary
- Starring
- Keith Nelson, Stephanie Monseu