Bette Gordon

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Bette Gordon (born June 22, 1950) is an American filmmaker and professor at Columbia University School of the Arts. She is best known for her films Variety (1983) and Handsome Harry (2009), both of which received critical acclaim in North America and abroad.

Most Popular Bette Gordon Trailers

Total trailers found: 23

Central Time Trailer (1977)

01 January 1977

a time-lapse glimpse of the Madison, WI skyline from dusk to dark. Shot from within a hotel room, the street traffic and the reflected interior interpenetrate in gradually shifting superimposition.

Webbs Trailer (1976)

01 January 1976

This recently unearthed and newly digitized work is a richly minimalist, single-camera-setup portrait of the sights and sounds at a late-night diner in Madison, WI.

An Algorithm Trailer (1977)

01 January 1977

A visually stunning kinetic rhythm produced by looped footage (mathematical curves) in and out of phase with each other.

Flight Trailer (2020)

23 November 2020

Made to celebrate Anthology Film Archives’ 50th Anniversary.

Empty Suitcases Trailer (1980)

01 January 1980

Bette Gordon describes her first feature film as “a narrative derived from film’s own material and my concern for exploring issues of representation and identification in cinema.

Noyes Trailer (1976)

08 June 1976

A single action seen from alternative left and right perspectives, accentuating reversals, repetitions and persistence of vision.

Michigan Avenue Trailer (1974)

01 October 1974

A narrative film concerning an investigation of two women in time and space, to the point where the investigation becomes the narrative.

Luminous Motion Trailer (2000)

19 May 2000

A single mother and her 10-year-old son motor around the country as she makes ends meet and enters various relationships that her son has yet to understand.

The Drowning Trailer (2016)

08 October 2016

A psychiatrist faces his past, present and future when he finds himself involved in the treatment of a young man recently released from prison for a murder committed when the boy was just 11 years old.

Handsome Harry Trailer (2009)

25 April 2009

An ex-Navy man carrying out the last wish of a dying shipmate renews contact with old friends to break the code of silence around a mysterious, long-buried crime.

Doublespeak Trailer (2021)

28 January 2021

A young woman grapples with the aftermath of reporting sexual harassment in the workplace

Variety Trailer (1985)

27 February 1985

A repressed young woman becomes obsessed with pornography and the mysterious rich patrons of the Times Square porn theater where she works selling tickets.

Blank City Trailer (2011)

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.

An Erotic Film Trailer (1975)

20 August 1975

A couple and a train.

North on Evers Trailer (1992)

27 January 1992

In NORTH ON EVERS James Benning takes the road movie seriously, making his circular trip across the U.

Seven Women, Seven Sins Trailer (1986)

19 April 1986

Seven Women, Seven Sins (1986) represents a quintessential moment in film history. The women filmmakers invited to direct for the seven sins were amongst the world's most renown: Helke Sander (Gluttony), Bette Gordon (Greed), Maxi Cohen (Anger), Chantal Akerman (Sloth), Valie Export (Lust), Laurence Gavron (Envy), and Ulrike Ottinger (Pride).

I-94 Trailer (1974)

01 January 1974

Intercourse between two people who never appear on the screen at the same time. An exploration of sex and male/female identities.

Anybody's Woman Trailer (1981)

01 January 1981

The goings-on around a porn theater in New York’s East Village, interspersed with actors recounting experiences with extreme sexualities and a description of a scene from the pre-code Dorothy Arzner film of the same name.

11 x 14 Trailer (1977)

14 March 1977

65 shots making up a cryptically alluded-to narrative: a lesbian couple's Midwest travels, a hitchhiking young man's journeys, the story of a man who may be having an affair.

The United States of America Trailer (1975)

05 March 1975

A conceptual bicentennial film dealing with spatial and temporal relationships between two travelers, their car, and the geographic, political, and social changes from NY to Los Angeles.

Exchanges Trailer (1979)

01 January 1979

Exchanges investigates mechanisms by which meaning is produced in film, through the interaction of the process of construction of a text and the social context which determines and is represented by that text.

Greed: Pay to Play Trailer (1986)

19 April 1986

Three women have a strange claustraphobic encounter in the ladies lounge of a luxurious manhattan hotel.

Still Life Trailer (1975)

01 January 1975

A meditation on the American rustic. Various objects within the composition are re-presented in unnatural colors and unusual spatial arrangements, emphasizing the illusion of movement while exploring film grain and graphic nature.