Pat Rocco's guest appearances

Pat Rocco

Porno Cultures Podcast

The Last Thing I Saw

Ask Any Buddy

Joe Rubin

Adam Baran

Chris Harder

Steve Scott

Rebecca Sullivan

Elena Gorfinkel

Lynn Comella

Whitney Strub

Nicholas De Villiers

Roger Earl

Jiz Lee

William E. Jones

John Mercer

David Church

Peter Alilunas

OwlTail

Ep. 170: K.J. Relth-Miller on the VardaVerse, Neptune Frost, Pat Rocco, Titanic 3D, and moreWelcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. This week I’m delighted to welcome the wonderful K.J. Relth-Miller of the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles. We discuss selections from the Academy Museum program “Enter the VardaVerse: Women’s Liberation Through Film, 1971–1977” including Agnes Varda’s One Sings, The Other Doesn’t and Julie Dash’s rarely shown UCLA film Diary of an African Nun. Relth-Miller also talks about the contemporary films she teaches at CalArts, and a couple of filmmakers who captured Los Angeles: Melvin Van Peebles and Pat Rocco. Plus: Titanic 3D!Please support the production of this podcast by signing up at:rapold.substack.comMusic: “Monserrate” by The Minarets, courtesy of The MinaretsPhoto by Steve Snodgrass

Ep. 170: K.J. Relth-Miller on the VardaVerse, Neptune Frost, Pat Rocco, Titanic 3D, and more Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. This week I’m delighted to welcome the wonderful K.J. Relth-Miller of the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles. We discuss selections from the Academy Museum program “Enter the VardaVerse: Women’s Liberation Through Film, 1971–1977” including Agnes Varda’s One Sings, The Other Doesn’t and Julie Dash’s rarely shown UCLA film Diary of an African Nun. Relth-Miller also talks about the contemporary films she teaches at CalArts, and a couple of filmmakers who captured Los Angeles: Melvin Van Peebles and Pat Rocco. Plus: Titanic 3D! Please support the production of this podcast by signing up at: <a href="http://rapold.substack.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">rapold.substack.com</a> Music: “Monserrate” by The Minarets, courtesy of The Minarets Photo by Steve Snodgrass

Ep. 170: K.J. Relth-Miller on the VardaVerse, Neptune Frost, Pat Rocco, and more

In June 1968, Los Angeles’ Park Theatre held the world’s first gay film festival. Mixed in the usual works by figures like Kenneth Anger, Jack Smith, and Andy Milligan was a new name: Pat Rocco. Though he’d only started making films that year, Rocco would quickly become the vanguard of a new, openly-gay film movement and a crucial figure in the history of gay liberation. This week on the show, we’re taking a look at Rocco’s fourth theatrical film program, PAT ROCCO DARES. Consisting of a number of cinematic ‘dares’ and firsts — including, most famously, a nude ballet shot on the Hollywood Freeway — DARES found Rocco testing and pushing the limits of what could be seen on the screen and done in public.

In June 1968, Los Angeles’ Park Theatre held the world’s first gay film festival. Mixed in the usual works by figures like Kenneth Anger, Jack Smith, and Andy Milligan was a new name: Pat Rocco. Though he’d only started making films that year, Rocco would quickly become the vanguard of a new, openly-gay film movement and a crucial figure in the history of gay liberation. This week on the show, we’re taking a look at Rocco’s fourth theatrical film program, PAT ROCCO DARES. Consisting of a number of cinematic ‘dares’ and firsts — including, most famously, a nude ballet shot on the Hollywood Freeway — DARES found Rocco testing and pushing the limits of what could be seen on the screen and done in public.

Episode 21: PAT ROCCO DARES (1969)

Pat Rocco is a figure that doesn’t fit easily into pornography’s history. Pat started making films featuring nude male characters in soft core situations just before 1971’s Boys in the Sand, and he continued to purposefully occupy a unique middle ground where his work showcasing tame, but explicit, gay nudity coexisted alongside other films documenting the emerging gay rights movement, wholesome gay romance, and queer sexual politics. Pat used his camera as a form of activism highlighting gay men's varied sexual interests as well as their passions surrounding society’s changing attitudes about homosexuality. In this episode, we explore the legacy of Pat Rocco and try to figure out where he belongs within pornography’s history. This show features Matthew Hipps, who’s a PhD student in Film Studies at the University of Iowa, and Bryan Wuest, who is a graduate of UCLA’s PhD program in Cinema and Media Studies. Each of them presented papers about Rocco's films at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference in 2018, so I thought it would be great to have them on to talk about the different ways in which they approach his work. This episode has special resonance considering that Rocco would die just seven months after this recording. Matt considers Rocco's travelogue films where he travels to Brazil and Western Europe with a group of gay men to find out what gay life is like outside of the U.S. And Bryan considers how Rocco’s work should be thought of within the history of gay film production. This episode is intended to both spark interest in a figure that isn’t too well known because of the limited exposure his work as received, and to help us expand our ideas about what pornographic culture can be, and how it can help us delve into modes of political activism that we didn’t know were possible.      More info about Bryan.Bryan’s article: “Defining Homosexual Love Stories: Pat Rocco, Categorization, and the Legitimation of Gay Narrative Film.”UCLA’s articles about:“Processing the Pat Rocco Collection”“Pat Rocco Oral History—1983”“Hey Look Me Over: The Films of Pat Rocco” by Whitney StrubPat Rocco’s films:Pat Rocco Dared trailer1969 Gay March in HollywoodSign of Protest (1970) (a short documentary about the protests surrounding Barney’s Beanery and their “FAGOTS—STAY OUT” sign hanging in their bar.)Changes (1970)We Were There (1976)Harvey Milk’s “Hope” Speech (1978)Mondo Rocco Obituary from ONE Archives pornocultures.podomatic.com facebook.com/AcademicSex@PornoCulturesHelp Support the Podcast!More info about Brandon Arroyo

Pat Rocco is a figure that doesn’t fit easily into pornography’s history. Pat started making films featuring nude male characters in soft core situations just before 1971’s Boys in the Sand, and he continued to purposefully occupy a unique middle ground where his work showcasing tame, but explicit, gay nudity coexisted alongside other films documenting the emerging gay rights movement, wholesome gay romance, and queer sexual politics. Pat used his camera as a form of activism highlighting gay men's varied sexual interests as well as their passions surrounding society’s changing attitudes about homosexuality. In this episode, we explore the legacy of Pat Rocco and try to figure out where he belongs within pornography’s history. This show features Matthew Hipps, who’s a PhD student in Film Studies at the University of Iowa, and Bryan Wuest, who is a graduate of UCLA’s PhD program in Cinema and Media Studies. Each of them presented papers about Rocco's films at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference in 2018, so I thought it would be great to have them on to talk about the different ways in which they approach his work. This episode has special resonance considering that Rocco would die just seven months after this recording. Matt considers Rocco's travelogue films where he travels to Brazil and Western Europe with a group of gay men to find out what gay life is like outside of the U.S. And Bryan considers how Rocco’s work should be thought of within the history of gay film production. This episode is intended to both spark interest in a figure that isn’t too well known because of the limited exposure his work as received, and to help us expand our ideas about what pornographic culture can be, and how it can help us delve into modes of political activism that we didn’t know were possible.       More info about Bryan. Bryan’s article: “Defining Homosexual Love Stories: Pat Rocco, Categorization, and the Legitimation of Gay Narrative Film.” UCLA’s articles about: “Processing the Pat Rocco Collection” “Pat Rocco Oral History—1983” “Hey Look Me Over: The Films of Pat Rocco” by Whitney Strub Pat Rocco’s films: Pat Rocco Dared trailer 1969 Gay March in Hollywood Sign of Protest (1970) (a short documentary about the protests surrounding Barney’s Beanery and their “FAGOTS—STAY OUT” sign hanging in their bar.) Changes (1970) We Were There (1976) Harvey Milk’s “Hope” Speech (1978) Mondo Rocco  Obituary from ONE Archives  <a href="http://pornocultures.podomatic.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">pornocultures.podomatic.com</a> <a href="http://facebook.com/AcademicSex" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">facebook.com/AcademicSex</a> @PornoCultures Help Support the Podcast! More info about Brandon Arroyo

Who is Pat Rocco?