intersex. disabled. cult icon.
"Sandie Crisp, a *transgender actress and model, served as a muse to generations of artists, gay punks, and the West Hollywood avant-garde."
-New York Times
*Sandie was intersex
Sandie Crisp, better known as Goddess Bunny, is a one-of-a-kind icon: a disabled, transgender drag queen whose presence is shocking, hilarious, abrasive, and unexpectedly tender all at once.
There has simply never been anyone like her. This documentary is a wild, emotional ride through a life lived without apology. It begins in 1991, when Sandie is 31 years old, and follows her extraordinary journey across three decades.
At its heart is the deeply personal relationship between filmmaker and photographer Matthew Kuhara Patrick and Sandie herself.
Over the years, their bond grows into something more than collaboration, they adopt each other as family: Matthew as the protective older brother, and Sandie as the fiercely independent little sister.
GODDESS BUNNY
"Her aesthetic, which blended the Hollywood noir of David Lynch with the punk offensiveness of GG Allin and Lydia Lunch, knew few boundaries. She was like a surrealist painting, but in real life."
-New York Times
“I don’t limit myself. The world is one big school, and unless we sit there and actually seek for the answers, then we’re never going to learn anything.”
-Sandie
From Academy Award Nominated Director Matthew Patrick.
“I filmed the last thirty years of Sandie starting in 1991. I wanted to show her in an honest, real way. I never looked at any of the footage or started editing until after her funeral in 2022.
Her heart, courage and humor drew me in. She always presented herself with complete glamour, despite having a body that people weren’t used to seeing - a body that many didn’t associate with beauty. Sandie embodied optimism and kindness. Her crude, yet charming spirit always attracted friends who surrounded her with love. I wanted to show her in an honest, real way.
This film a love letter to the outsiders, the queer kids, the artists, the disabled community — anyone who’s felt unseen, unwanted, and unloved.”
-Matthew Patrick
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“I’ve been a miracle since birth. I used to be paralyzed from the neck down. I wasn’t supposed to live three days past my birth.”
-Goddess Bunny
