On the way down the highway a voice comes over your car radio. Deep Throat’s taken over the station and they’re going to school, scare and guide you beyond the cinematic male gaze. They have some avenging to do.

Deep Throat Drive-In—devised by celebrated cinematographer Sandi Sissel with Willoh Weiland and James Brennan—is a rewilding of the drive-in space. It journeys through Sissel’s forty year career in journalism and film, examines misogynistic tropes and affirms non-binary and gender diverse bodies in cinema.

In addition, the night features screenings of Rear View by Anna Breckon and Nat Randall (Set Piece, The Second Woman); a raging punk intermission by Melbourne band Hacker; and a screening of Cheryl Dunye’s seminal 1996 New Queer Cinema work The Watermelon Woman.

Australian goth meets Hollywood kitsch in a night of classic cars, monstrous performers, speaker stacks and back-seat make outs. Order up buckets of popcorn and let Deep Throat lead you into what can best be described as a live and recut, sex-positive night at the flicks.

Deep Throat Drive-In was commissioned by RISING.

Listen to Deep Throat Drive-In podcast with Annie Sprinkle and Sandi Sissel.

Read an interview with directors Willoh Weiland and James Brennan on the making of this work.