Most Popular Bobby Abate Trailers
Total trailers found: 20
Certain Women Trailer (2004)
10 March 2004
Caldwell's pulp storytelling, proto-feminist stance and unabashed social dramatization of his characters are a distinct vision of the condition of women -- specifically working class women.
The Tanti Man Trailer (1999)
01 January 1999
This is a summer memoir of two personal intertwined love affairs; one with Salisbury Beach and the other with a strange and charming drifter the filmmaker met randomly through a friend.
Zenith Trailer (2006)
08 October 2006
A solid state cyborg tale on the set of a 1960's evening newscast. A mysterious unearthly being has claimed a test subject and is making use of the station's control room in attempt to communicate and perhaps reunite with its counterpart.
Love Rose Trailer (2010)
04 October 2010
A séance is performed by three cloned versions of the filmmaker in order to make a connection to another plane.
Soothsayer Trailer (2004)
08 October 2004
Prophecies of doom, disaster and political catastrophe envisioned by some of the world’s most famous psychics between the 1960’s the year 2001 are conjured up through 3D-animation, industrial films, text and historical footage — the sum of which combine to form a visually stunning meditation on the forces that guide us into a dark, paranoid and uncertain future.
The Evil Eyes Trailer (2011)
15 October 2011
A dysfunctional family deals with mortality, life and sexuality as they watch a soap opera.
Lucky Trailer (2001)
08 October 2001
Crafted from softly pixilated QuickTime, NetMeeting sessions, emotive vintage pop, airplane disaster footage, online porn, streaming Hollywood trailers, and the curious hypnotic qualities of taping off computer monitors, Bobby Abate's internet-sex-n-death thrillogy explores new anxieties made possible by technology, and the profoundly intimate places that tiny images and lonely piano chords burrow deep within the soul.
Meet Me at the Pavilion Trailer (1997)
08 October 1997
A series of vignettes, inspired by vintage 8mm home movies from the 1960's, that show a woman isolated and waiting inside of a nostalgic beachside landscape.
Yool Is Bloo Trailer (1997)
08 October 1997
ONCE UPON A TIME, a jealous little elf named Yool felt neglected, lonely, and positively enraged. It was Christmas Eve and he knew Santa was away cavorting in other people's living rooms.
Chisholm Trailer (1999)
08 October 1999
Abate’s 16mm films The Tanti Man, The Zero Order and Chisholm invoke Kenneth Anger-esque horny montage fantasies of personal psychodrama and popular culture syncopated to nostalgic tunes.
Gossip Trailer (2011)
04 October 2011
Rebecca gazes into the crystal ball. It is afternoon in a Brooklyn neighborhood of industrial buildings.
Dirty Code Trailer (2013)
08 October 2013
SECRETS AND LIES become an aggressive virus when injected into the binary code of several video clips -- degrading them into a visual corpse.
One Mile Per Minute Trailer (2002)
06 October 2002
I consider this video to be a rough journal entry of what I experienced directly after the attacks on September 11th 2001.
A Party Record Packed with Sex and Sadness Trailer (2011)
08 October 2011
A high & low fidelity record of obsessions past & present. A hooded man named Cobra Commander (drawn naked) and a boy with black glasses.
Self-Portraits Trailer (1993)
02 October 1993
In 1993-1994, when I was in art school, I felt like an outsider amongst outsiders. I was queer, but there were so few out queer people around me.
A Few Extra Copies Trailer (2012)
08 October 2012
An analog recreation and reclamation of the January 22, 1987 news conference in which Pennsylvania's State Treasurer Budd Dwyer grasped onto the pages of his final speech before shooting himself on live television.
Sylvania Trailer (2005)
04 October 2005
The set of Bewitched is a spiritual battleground of overlapping zones — human, alien and cyborg — in Bobby Abate's latest ontological mystery film.
The Three Ravens Trailer (2009)
04 October 2009
A 10-minute tape focused on greenish night-vision textures from a cheap digital camera and certain high-camp performance values, organized around a dysfunctional family "celebrating" several birthdays.
Kitty's Nite In Trailer (1994)
02 October 1994
An analog video mix of Sylvester Stallone's first porno "A Party at Kitty and Stud's" and a sound piece from 1993 making Kitty's lonely dance in pink see-through nightie even more hypnotic.
The Zero Order Trailer (2000)
03 October 2000
An update on avant-garde psychodrama (its 21st-century sensibility signaled by low-end video effects) in which a gay man’s sexual identity crisis is reflected in a kind of karaoke version of Breakfast at Tiffany’s.
