AT 75, CULT FILMMAKER, AUTHOR AND “FILTH ELDER” JOHN WATERS IS HAVING THE BUSIEST YEAR OF HIS LIFE
CONVENTIONAL WISDOM HOLDS THAT 2021’s much anticipated hot vax summer never happened, but John Waters knows different. Cinema’s Pope of Trash rents a home in Cape Cod’s queer party destination Provincetown every summer, and last year “it was like the movie The Swarm, but with gay people,” Waters laughs. Although the season marked the filmmaker, author, and cultural icon’s 57th in Ptown, the convergence was like nothing he had seen before. “I hid,” he says—writing in the mornings and spending afternoons on the beach.
A self-described “filth elder” who spent his 20s making movies transgressive enough to send his parents’ generation into conniptions, the auteur sympathizes with the youth, whose decadent and
