Dumpster Raccoon: THE PEOPLE'S JOKER - Presented on 35mm - Bonus Screening!
Schedule
Sun, 23 Nov, 2025 at 07:00 pm
UTC-05:00Location
Revue Cinema | Toronto, ON
TORONTO THEATRICAL PREMIERE OF NEW 35MM PRINT!19+ EVENT!
This BATVEMBER, Dumpster Raccoon Cinema is DELIRIOUSLY PROUD to reprise the legal hot-potato parody that became a searing cult phenomenon, THE PEOPLE’S JOKER – now on a BRAND NEW, FRESHLY STRUCK 35mm print making its TORONTO PREMIERE!!!
In a dystopian Gotham City rife with over-policing, over-medicating, and hyper-surveillance, a trans comedy terrorist called JOKER THE HARLEQUIN begins an incendiary culture-jamming “anti-comedy” project that threatens to bring the established order to its knees. With the help of the misfit rogues gallery that populate her homegrown comedy club, can she turn the tides against the closeted abuser Batman and his evil co-conspirator, comedy impresario Lorne Michaels??? Can she come to grips with the complicated abuses and negligences of her queer childhood, or is Gotham doomed to be numbed into a grey haze of bad comedy and worse stupor???
Born from a dare from a friend, Vera Drew’s homemade, patchwork cut-up editing project blossomed from a mid-pandemic homebound gag into a full-blown, feature length film of intense personal examination, community art – and hotly contested legal dispute. Now finally cleared for screening, Dumpster Raccoon Cinema is proud to bring to the Revue this instant queer classic and razor’s-edge urgent intervention into the culture from an exciting and audacious trans filmmaker.
With video preshow, host Anthony Oliveira, live performance, and cocktails by the Shameful Tiki Room – sponsored by Bay Street Video!
Where is it happening?
Revue Cinema, 400 Roncesvalles Ave, Toronto, ON M6R 2M9, Canada
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