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​ ​ ​ Kino Cult Celebrates 50th Anniversary of Drifter With Blu-ray Release of Pat Rocco's Landmark of 1970s Queer Cinema Presented in a New 2K Restoration Available to Own on Blu-ray February 20 Packed With Bonus Features including Audio Commentary by Film Historian Finley Freibert and Four Short Films by Pat Rocco ​

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​ A prolific filmmaker who explored documentary, narrative, and experimental cinema, Pat Rocco captured the essence of queer culture in the late 1960s and early ’70s, when it was still largely ignored by the popular media. Having achieved notoriety in the gay underground, Rocco expected his third feature to cross over to general audiences. A West Coast response to Midnight Cowboy, Drifter observes the odyssey of an emotionally ambivalent bisexual hustler (Joed Adair) as he wanders through a series of relationships with men and women, yearning for a sense of belonging in a Southern California characterized by impersonal pick-ups and sex for hire. Playful and irreverent, Rocco‘s films could also be disarmingly earnest and sensitive, and might have found a greater audience had not serious gay narratives remained such a stubborn cultural taboo. As it was, Rocco’s breakthrough film failed to receive commercial distribution, and for decades Drifter remained virtually unseen. Fifty years later, Kino Cult celebrates Rocco‘s magnum opus with a 2K restoration from the original 16mm A/B negatives preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive, setting the stage for a reappraisal of Rocco’s eclectic and historically significant body of work. Finley Freibert is an Assistant Professor of Media Studies whose research spans industry studies, media history, global media circulations, and LGBTQ+ cultural history. Dr. Freibert has written numerous articles and book chapters in film and media studies that have appeared in peer-reviewed scholarly venues such as Camera Obscura (Duke University Press), Film Criticism (University of Michigan), JCMS: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies (University of Michigan), Journal of Anime and Manga Studies (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Monstrum (McGill University), Porn Studies (Routledge), the Journal of Homosexuality (Routledge), Spectator (University of Southern California), Synoptique (Concordia University, Montréal), and Flow: A Critical Forum on Media and Culture (University of Texas at Austin). Dr. Freibert is coeditor (with Alicia Kozma) of Refocus: The Films of Doris Wishman (Edinburgh University Press, 2021). ​ Drifter Director: Pat Rocco Starring: Jon Adair, David Russell, Bambi Allen, Joe Caruso, Inga Marie, Dean Shah-Kee, Ann Collins, Gerald Strickland Blu-ray Street Date: February 20, 2024 SRP: $24.95 Bonus Features: • 2K Restoration from the Original 16mm A/B Negatives Preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive • Audio Commentary by Film Historian Finley Freibert • Four Short Films by Pat Rocco Autumn Nocturne (1968, 24 Min.) A Matter of Life (1968, 14 Min. Featuring Joe Adair) Strip Strip (1968, 5 Min.) Sunny Boys (1968, 3 Min.) • Optional English Subtitles​