![]() ![]() Waters moved into feature filmmaking by the late 1960s, producing two films- Mondo Trasho (1969) and Multiple Maniacs (1970)-that started to circulate on college campuses and in countercultural screening venues outside of Baltimore. ![]() After briefly attending New York University, where he was expelled for drug use, he returned to Baltimore and began making low-budget independent short films with local friends and collaborators-works that emphasized scandalous imagery, camp humor, and winking social transgression. A rebellious high schooler, Waters formed close friendships with fellow queer adolescents and social misfits and would hitchhike to New York City where he saw influential works of 1960s-era underground filmmaking. ![]() He was raised in the suburb of Lutherville, Maryland, and developed an early adolescent interest in the exploitation movies screened at local drive-ins. One of the most influential and idiosyncratic American independent filmmakers of the last fifty years, John Waters was born in Baltimore, Maryland, on 22 April 1946. ![]()
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