Outside of the documentary I just started creating an archive on my laptop, just a folder - I would add photos to it that I would find online or links to articles with interviews that people had done about their experiences at Paradise Garage, for example. JOSEPH CASSARA: First it started with the documentary Paris is Burning: besides watching it a thousand times, trying to look for different things each time that I was watching it, sometimes I was looking for the setting, others I was looking at the clothes, other times I was just watching for the speech patterns in the characters. ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: You didn’t experience the queer scene in ’80s New York, yet you manage to resurrect it with such vivid detail here - tell me about the process behind creating the world of House of Xtravaganza.
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