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Eric Mitchell is a French born writer, director and actor who moved to New York City in the early 1970s. He has acted in films such Permanent Vacation by Jim Jarmusch, but he is best known for his writing and directing his own films.
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04 November 1982
Starting with a scene from Squat Theatre's "Mr Dead and Mrs Free" shot in their storefront theatre on West 23rd Street, Chelsea, New York, "A Matter of Facts" draws a parallel narrative which follows the characters from the theatre into real life.
01 January 1978
Eric Mitchell's debut film, shot in Super 8, stars Mitchell, Anya Phillips, Patti Astor, and Duncan Smith among a crowd of hip "poseurs," talking sex, manners, and politics.
23 December 1980
Based on the true story of four Nazi saboteurs who infiltrated the US in 1942 and were quickly caught and executed, this 80-minute ode to America's irresistibly corruptive allure was the only underground feature by writer-director Anders Grafstrom.
23 December 1978
Nares mocks up Ancient Rome by shooting in faux-classical sites including Tribeca's American Thread Building, where a decrepit penthouse loft with a peeling-paint dome serves as an echoey stand-in for the imperial palace.
01 January 1979
A psycho noir where stalkers, terrorists and government agents collide.
05 June 1979
New Cinema cofounder Becky Johnston recently described this little-seen feature as “an East Village reinvention of the Otto Preminger movie *Laura*” that plays “fast and loose with the noir detective genre.
01 January 1978
A French special op suffers an existential crisis as he wanders New York City in search of a mission and the requisite connections.
06 November 1980
The Sunset Blvd. of underground cinema, and a suitably ambivalent retrospect on the star-game casualties of New York's upper depths, with Patti Astor statuesquely hysterical as a 20-year-old Norma Desmond, made up to recall Edie Sedgwick and surrounded by Warhol's lost children.
04 April 1986
A group of actors in the East Village of New York City have been rehearsing for a play when the lead actress in the play turns up dead.
06 March 1981
In downtown Manhattan, twentysomething Allie, whose father is not around and whose mother is institutionalized, is a big Charlie Parker fan.
01 January 1981
In this ostensible murder mystery, the genre elements are merely a pretext for the series of haunting (if inconclusive and only mildly erotic) homo-social encounters he stages.
10 April 1979
A “sci-fi povera” film shot on Super 8, Men in Orbit features musician Lurie and Eric Mitchell as chain-smoking astronauts in a decrepit New York living room that has been transformed into a spacecraft.
11 May 1981
A short survey of the small-gauge narrative film, beginning with the Kuchars' Sylvia's Promise (1962).
15 April 1978
An experimental drama that spins the tale of a woman, her sister, and the man who completes the triangle.
27 September 2025
New York’s Miguel Abreu Gallery is at the center of Bingham Bryant’s short, which follows Adrian Dannatt across his eponymous exhibit while observing works from, among others, Pablo Picasso, Guy Debord, Nan Goldin, Damien Hirst, and Duncan Hannah.
18 March 1990
A domestic accident causes a quiet and simple man to undergo drastic personality changes which will takes him to New York’s underground nightclubs.
20 January 1988
A mediocre musician goes on the road in search of the world's greatest guitar maker.
01 January 1977
Stars Patti Astor as a waylaid heroine fending for herself in the wild, filmed guerilla style in Central Park.
01 January 1976
Sketched loosely, the narrative of Poe's first feature is as scrappy and paper-thin as its protagonist Rico, a self-styled loner in New York City circa 1976 who longs to inhabit the "New Wave" scene of mid-60s Paris.
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.
24 July 1988
This thriller looks at the defection of a terrorist and focuses on frequent violence and repetitive sex scenes with full frontal nudity.
01 January 2025
"Shortly after Amos went into home hospice he began filming ‘Adios’, a short film, compiled of 16mm and Super 8 footage, to premiere at his memorial, chronicling all the family and friends who have come to visit.
26 August 1998
A Private detective is hired to trace a woman who ran away and disappeared on her wedding day. The movie follows him and recounts the story of her life through her eyes and the eyes of those interviewed by the detective.
21 March 1992
The Levys, a glamorous couple, used to make their living robbing golfers, until they met their fatal handicap.
01 June 1990
A courier who represents Moroccan dissidents arrives in Washington with secret documents.
02 November 2005
January 1966. In a Paris apartment, police discovers the corpse of Georges Figon, the man who broke the scandal of the Ben Barka affair and undermined Gaullist power.
01 January 1978
1978. USA. A performance film composed by Eric Mitchell, Maripol. Cinematography by James Nares. Staging by Mitchell.
01 January 1997
Small-town gangsters and ambitious young girls meet in "Dreamland", where they exchange nervous kisses and green banknotes.
13 March 1979
Second feature film by the French-born director is a Bertolucci-style story of a bored, rich woman looking for romance and adventure.
25 August 1978
How to play a melody? A magic moment, unrepeatable. Life is just a bowl of cherries. Film as art as life as film.
