Movies: Beth B
- 2011
Blank City (2011)
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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 thei...
- 1987
Salvation! (1987)
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A troubled young woman hooks up with a money-crazed televangelist and becomes a rich, heavy-metal Christian rock star....
- 1980
The Offenders (1980)
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A punk savage satire about a kidnapping....
- 1982
Vortex (1982)
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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...
- 1996
Visiting Desire (1996)
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Complete strangers meet in a room to act out their sexual desires....
- 2009
The Dominatrix Sleeps Tonight (2009)
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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. Banned at the time...
- 2009
No Wave - Underground '80: Berlin - New York (2009)
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the connections and energy flow between the various artists populating the 1980s sub-cultures of New York and Berlin. Features Jim Jarmusch, Lydia Lunch, Blixa Bargeld, Alex Hacke, Gudrun Gut, Nick Cave, and others. An important film. Bravo, Mr. Dreh...
- 2019
Lydia Lunch: The War Is Never Over (2019)
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The first career-spanning documentary retrospective of Lydia Lunch's confrontational, acerbic and always electric artistry. As New York City's preeminent No Wave icon from the late 70's, Lunch has forged a lifetime of music and spoken word performanc...
- 1993
Two Small Bodies (1993)
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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. He questions her for days about her lifestyle, her children, her ex-husband, men and women, and lif...
- 2013
Exposed (2013)
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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. It's satire. It's parody. It's ...
- 2023
Glowing Evelyn (2023)
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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. Franti’s vocals are woven through the music of Jim Coleman creating a sonic ...
- 1994
Under Lock and Key (1994)
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Under Lock and Key is the single-channel version of an installation that premiered at the Wexner Center for the Arts in 1993. Using the "talking head" confessional as a stylistic device, B creates a social and psychological narrative wherein the act ...
- 1991
Thanatopsis (1991)
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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." In this noirishly rendered narrative, a woman negotiates the ...
- 1998
Voices Unheard (1998)
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Documentary feature by Beth B....
- 1980
The Trap Door (1980)
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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 hu...
- 2017
Voyeur (2017)
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An evocative portrait of people having orgasms, lingering on the silent classical face of ecstasy....
- 1991
American Nightmare (1991)
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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....
- 1993
No Age New York (1993)
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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. A love letter to the New York Underground....
- 1979
Black Box (1979)
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A man is tortured by his girlfriend and then locked inside a black box....
- 1989
Belladonna (1989)
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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. Josef Mengele, the Nazi war criminal; and journals from th...