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During the late 1970s-early 1980s, Beth and Scott B were among the most significant proponents of the No-Wave, no-budget style of underground punk filmmaking. The feature films Beth B has since made on her own are ambitious in content.
Total trailers found: 33
03 July 2009
the connections and energy flow between the various artists populating the 1980s sub-cultures of New York and Berlin.
01 January 1993
A scattershot documentary about punk rock film makers in New York, with contributions from Lydia Lunch, Henry Rollins, Richard Kern, Beth B, Nick Zedd and many others.
15 August 2019
The first career-spanning documentary retrospective of Lydia Lunch's confrontational, acerbic and always electric artistry.
07 February 2013
Beth B takes us into the 21st century underground and reveals a secret world where cutting-edge performers are taking hold of a taboo art form, Burlesque, and driving it to extremes that most people have never seen.
01 August 1993
Eileen Maloney, a hostess at a strip joint, has woken up to find her two children are missing. Lieutenant Bramm suspects that she killed them herself.
11 September 1987
A troubled young woman hooks up with a money-crazed televangelist and becomes a rich, heavy-metal Christian rock star.
20 November 1979
An innocent youth is abducted and dragged down into a dystopian nightmare where teenage Lydia Lunch throws him into the Black Box.
01 January 1984
A gang of leather-clad, powerful women take over a traditionally male domain, and hairspray, eyeliner, and bare flesh are on full display in Beth B’s music video for the Arthur Baker–produced club hit from synthpop band Dominatrix.
06 April 2011
In the years before Ronald Reagan took office, Manhattan was in ruins. But true art has never come from comfort, and it was precisely those dire circumstances that inspired artists like Jim Jarmusch, Lizzy Borden, and Amos Poe to produce some of their best works.
01 September 1982
A film noirish atmosphere is created to show detective Lunch (a popular underground musician and poet) plow her way through the plans of a corporate businessman who seeks government defense contracts through real "corporate wars" and the manipulation of politicians.
22 May 1991
Beth B, in collaboration with legendary downtown performance artist/musician Lydia Lunch, creates a chilling yet poetic vision of despairing nihilism -- literally, a "meditation on death.
30 June 1979
The "No New York Festival" on a tour of Europe. This concert is at SO36, Kreuzberg, Berlin, where a sprawling variety of bands and musicians related to the NNNF performed.
01 January 1979
Real-life kung fu master Nathan Ingram stars in this gritty, low-budget martial arts epic as a local karate school owner who clashes with a gang of drug traffickers posing as the owners of a rival dojo.
01 January 1994
Intimate portraits of gay artists and drag performers talking about gender, identity, and all the fine lines around them.
01 January 1997
Haxan Films-produced documentary on Richard Kern's work around 1997. Footage from his photo sessions, interviews with Kern and his models, etc.
22 May 1989
An experimental short by Beth B. It consists of rapidly intercut close-ups of talking heads reading statements from a Sigmund Freud case history; affidavits attesting to the atrocities of Dr.
01 January 1992
A stark and uncompromising portrayal of the escalation of xenophobic sentiment in a neo-conservative climate.
01 January 1991
A half dozen men and women, each addressing the camera directly and alone, speak of their involvement with drugs.
01 January 1979
The almost lyrical Letters to Dad, is a meditation on authority that superimposes the spectre of Jonr
01 January 1978
An exploration of social schizophrenia in which terrorists consult their mothers before planting bombs, and the head of the New York City bomb squad succumbs to his dominatrix.
10 June 2016
This deeply personal portrait of acclaimed New York–based artist Ida Applebroog was shot with mischievous reverence by her filmmaker daughter, Beth B.
01 January 2001
Bravely bringing three severely traumatized Vietnam War veterans and their adult children back to Vietnam, this documentary explores rebirth and the reconciliation process, using raw, intense, and often revelatory scenes, captured in a vérité style, to confront a troubled past.
10 April 1994
Under Lock and Key is the single-channel version of an installation that premiered at the Wexner Center for the Arts in 1993.
01 September 1980
A Nietzschian parable on the fate of innocence, THE TRAP DOOR follows the mishaps of Jeremy (John Ahearn) as he is fired by his boss (Jenny Holzer), gets laughed out of court by Judge Gary Indiana, loses his girlfriend to sleazy Richard Prince, is hustled by prospective employer (Bill Rice) and mauled by predatory bird-women.
19 November 1996
Complete strangers meet in a room to act out their sexual desires.
01 January 1995
An intense study of the physical, psychological, and social breakdown of the human condition, this documentary questions a system that has lost its aspiration to reform.
10 March 2023
A viscerally poetic and sonically revelatory portrait of performance artist Evelyn Franti, the film brings the concept of pain and beauty into a searing work of physicality.
01 January 1991
A video full of swastikas, human skulls on American flag backdrops, girls frenching on department store mannequins and burning themselves with candles, military helmets and clomping boots, dudes masturbating under crucifixes, and a bunch of crotches.
18 February 1983
An evocative portrait of people having orgasms, lingering on the silent classical face of ecstasy.
01 January 1978
Short film by Scott B & Beth B showcasing Adele Bertei reading her poem, The Ragazzi Manifesto.
18 November 2001
Hysteria explores issues surrounding women's emotions and sexuality, and their social manifestations.
