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Thomas Block Rubnitz was an American video artist most often associated with the New York City East Village drag queen scene of the late 1980s. His video tapes were mainly inspired by pop culture and Las Vegas-style shows. A number of his works featured RuPaul and members of The B-52s.
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03 July 1989
From 1983 to 1989, New Yorker Nelson Sullivan captured more than 1,900 hours of video footage and saved most of it on VHS tapes, making a collection of 601 episodes documenting his everyday life in the East-Village, as well as following some flamboyant local icons like RuPaul, Sylvia Miles, and Phoebe Legere.
01 January 1986
This rapid-montage music video for John Sex’s song “Hustle with My Muscle” portrays the singer as a ladies’ man with ample endowment to share.
01 January 1986
A glittering, Las Vegas-inspired music video for John Sex’s song "Bump and Grind It". With an outrageous fountain hairdo (by stylist Danilo), Sex sings his catchy pop lyrics, “You gotta put your love behind it/Bump, bump, bump and grind it.
01 January 1984
Combining Rubnitz’s skillful manipulation of the familiar “look” of TV shows with an extraordinary range of characters, performer Ann Magnuson convincingly impersonates the array of female types seen on TV in a typical broadcast day.
31 December 1987
Ann Magnuson is launched off the back of her boyfriend's motorcycle while doing a bong rip, and into a strange fantasy world airbrushed on the side of a van.
01 January 1988
A movie trailer for a non-existent Bond-style spy thriller "coming soon to a mini-mall cineplex near you!" Featuring John Sex, Hapi Phace, Laura Levine, Dany Johnson and The French Twist.
01 January 1980
This first "Frieda" collaboration between performance artists Barbara Lipp and Tom Koken and video artist Tom Rubnitz chronicles Frieda's rise from assembly-line worker in a box factory to singing superstar.
01 January 1983
A profile of the East Village personality John Sex.
01 January 1983
From The Files of the Pyramid Cocktail Lounge is a series of video clips taken at the Pyramid Club, a seminal location for the East Village drag scene in the midst of the club's most influential years.
01 January 1980
A portrait of a young man, played by Tom Rubnitz, babysitting a little boy.
01 January 1980
In this early Tom Rubnitz, Barbara Lipp and Tom Koken collaboration, "Frieda" performs her rap song with a bevy of dolls as back-up singers and dancers.
01 January 1989
Based on a tale by Charles Perrault, Tom Rubnitz's The Fairies comes complete with frogs, princes, kind fairies, and evil stepsisters—all costumed à la Rubnitz.
01 January 1983
Rubnitz’s short cooking clip showcases a chicken casserole recipe from the kitchen of Elaine Clearfield.
01 January 1986
A dragumentary about a day in the life of a score of drag queens on the lookout for photo opportunities at Lincoln Center, the Guggenheim Museum, Tiffany’s, and in SoHo.
01 January 1992
Listen to This is a fragment of collective memory that finds critical relevance in contemporary Queer discourse.
01 January 1987
The original documentary on the Wigstock festival, back in the day when it was a much smaller affair in Thompkins Square Park.
01 January 1985
Psykho III: The Musical is an intriguing play on the tension between “authentic” and “pop” camp.
01 January 1991
Produced by Tom Rubnitz in collaboration with Tom Koken and Barbara Lipp, The Mother Show is a tribute to mothers everywhere, starring Frieda, the “living” doll.
