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Destroy All Blondes with The Naked Hipstress & Sick Sick Sister Blondes (1979-90, 45 min.) is a no-holds-barred look at the early '80s below-14th Street scene the high priests and priestesses, the wildly liberated lifestyles, and the turgid rivalries that threaten the very core of hip existence. Starring Naomi Powers, Bill Komoski, Susan Dale & Marilyn as the distracted Ice Goddess brought back to earth by the torrid voyeuristic love of a tortured substance abuser. "Naked" (1983, 30 min.), starring Jill Sprayregen, this film also features never-before-seen early footage of David Byrne, plus fragments of Kehoe's long-lost
Hardcore, Volume II (1983-91, 90 min.) More stylized sex and violence by "the downtown David Cronenberg" (Voice). Includes: Goodbye 42nd Street, Nick Zedd in King of Sex, the notorious Fingered with Lydia Lunch, Evil Cameraman, Submit to Me Now, X Is Y, Pierce and Moneylove. Adults only.
Amos POE, Unmade Beds (1976; app. 100 min., b&w) Poe's long unavailable first feature virtually created "punk cinema". Starrs Duncan Hannah as an aesthete photographer and Debbie Harry as his sometimes model and love interest. a self-conscious spoof of French New Wave, especially Godard, the film nevertheless captures its predecessors' whimsy, innocence and esprit-de-corps, creating in the process an engaging protrait of punk-era New York bohemia. With Eric Mitchell and Patti Astor. Music by Ivan Krul.
Amos POE with Ivan Krul, The Blank Generation (1976; app. 50 min) This film started the ball rolling on the NYC punk explotion. Wild-tracked 16mm film featuring performances by Patti Smith, Television, the Ramones, Talking Heads, Blondie, New York Dolls and others.
No Such Thing as Gravity (1989; 40 min.) "We'd rather die here than live on earth," say the seductive aliens in this expressionist black and white film. Nick Zedd stars as the earthling, Taylor Mead plays a wacked out judge in the twilight of humanity. Music with Wendy Wild.
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Richard KERN, Hardcore, Volume I (1985-91, 90 min.) Sexually charged work by the dean of NYC splattercore filmmaking. Six shorts include: Manhattan Love Suicides, You Killed Me First with Karen Finley and David Wojnarowicz, Submit to Me, and the Sonic Youth music video Death Valley 69, & Nazi.
Adults only.
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Rik LITTLE, Larry Smith & Apollo Belvedere (1976, 10 min; 1977, 35 min.) Smith combines flashbacks and urban paranoia in a fast-paced schizoid portrait of its eponymous hero (a haunted regular joe) with free-wheeling visual flair. Apollo is an absurdist mock-melodrama about a foppish tormented filmmaker and his ridiculously devoted spouse. Burroughs director Howard Brookner was the cameraman, Glenn Branca did the audio and Jim Jarmusch was on the crew.
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Tina LHOTSKY, Barbie (1977, 15 min.) & Snakewoman(1977, 30 min.) Two remarkable films by the NY writer & Hollywood emigre. In Barbie, a darkly surrealist self-portrait, Tina cooks & eats a doll. In Snakewoman Patti Astor conquers the wilds of Africa in a 1930's style adventure story.
Camera: Michael Oblowitz.
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Eric MARANO, The Age of Insects (1991, 75 min.) Jack Ramey stars as a NYC "mad doctor" conducting hormone experiments. A wealthy lingerie manufacturer pays to have his punk son Lance rehabilitated. The doctor's East Indian assistant (Lisa Zane) falls for the young man while helping with his "rebirth" caused by rubbing on insect enzymes. When Lance awakens, a wonderful special effect makes his every move subject to LSD-type trails while everything else appears normal. Zane has since gone on to star in Bad Influence and Freddy's Dead.
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James NARES, Rome '78 (1978; 60 min.) Before Bob Guccione's Caligula there was this movie, a low rent costume drama starring David McDermott as Caligula, Eric Mitchell, Lydia Lunch, and notorious socialite-philosopher Anya Phillips as the Queen of Sheba. Shot in color Super-8, this is a spicy pic, acclaimed a classic of the "New Cinema" of underground filmmakers at the time. Stately camera, lush color by British abstract painter.
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Michael OBLOWITZ, King Blank (1983; 90 min) A sour-spirited foul-mouthed epic of ennui,
the film treats two days in the life of a deadbeat couple, an obsessive husband lost in a web of psychotic delusion and his immigrant wife. Great character bits include Ron Vawter forcing Gary Indiana to give him a blowjob in the bathroom. "A cinephiliac achievement in which the pathology of male sexuality insists to the point of nausea." Claire Johnston.
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Uzi PARNES, Maneaters: A Trilogy- Girls Can't Help It! (1986); World Peace (1987); and Squalid Salad (1988). A trio of garish castration vignettes. Featuring: Consuelita, Jeep Reis, Randy Rom, Claude Balls, Joey Leatherton, Lucy Poussi, Cucaracha Tropicana, Venus de Vilo, and Dr. Chandalier.
Weird and wild.
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Amos POE, The Foreigner (1978; app. 60 min) Eric Mitchell stars in this proto-punk feature its auteur calls "a vision of NYC and its current inhabitantsthe story of one man. The first scene at Kennedy Airport and the last scene at Battery Park pretty well summarize the story. Arrival and departure." Also: Patti Astor, Deborah Harry, Terens Severine, Anya Phillips, The Cramps and The Erasers.
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Jeri Cain ROSSI, Blacks Hearts Bleed Red (1990, 15 min.) Subterranean art icon and social menace Joe Coleman stars in this hard-edged but moving and respectful b/w adaptation of Flannery O'Connor's "A Good Man Is Hard to Find." Why lonely women should never accept help on the road.
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Todd RUTT & Arn McConnell, Shock! Shock! Shock! (1987; 60 min.) The black-and-white 'videofilm' epic of Jim Norman, "a loser so lost only trouble could find him." The hero, burdened by guilt from a childhood murder that had him committed to a mental hospital, falls afoul of space aliens intent on conquering the earth. This canny, comic book story is a fave of Psychotronic's Michael Weldon. (Rhino Video release)
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David SCHMIDLAPP & Walter Stedding, Not Quite Love(1981-88; 30 min.) Film featurette stars a 10-year-old "ghetto waif and prophet" seeking love in an alienated metropolis. Shot in the nightclub ambience, Love has lots of music, singing & dancing.
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Cassandra STARK, The Lost Films of Cassandra Stark (1980s; ca. 40 min.) A star for Zedd and Kern, this filmmaker's work is poetic and disturbing, "Fraught with religious and ritualistic overtones." Film Threat Video Guide. Includes We Are Not to Blame, Death of an Arabian Woman, and others.
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Andras SZIRTES, Formaldehuten
through the lyrical lens of artistic Hungarian exiles living in the East Village. A strongly visual composition
held together by documentary montage and threads of narrative (mainly concerning the great exiled Russian author Bulgakov), Szirtes' film is thoughtful, evocation and eulogy of an era ended and eerily augurs the breadlines and chaos of a new one just begun. Stars artist Christof Kohlhofer, writer Patrick McGrath,
Angela Babin and others.
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Tommy TURNER and David WOJNAROWICZ, Where Evil Dwells (The Trailer) (1986; 34 min.)
Evil is a collaboration between filmmaker Turner and the late artist/writer David Wojnarowicz, based on
the infamous "Satan Teen" Ricky Kasso, who killed himself in jail after he and a friend had been accused
of murdering another boy in a satanic ritual in Long Island, N.Y. This trailer, all that remains of the
feature destroyed in a fire, stars Wojnarowicz, Turner, Scott Werner, Joe Coleman, Jack Nantz,
Baby Gregor, Rockets Redglare, Richard Klemann, Charlotte Webb, Lung Leg, Devil Doodie;
music by Jim Thirwell & Wiseblood.
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Franz VILA, Movieyeur & Faxion & Xex Movieyeur(1986, 65 min.) A movie length salad with
suspense and malice, comedy and screams, commercials and music, fun and tedious, just like the real thing.
Faxion (1984, 10 min.) Models' tapes based on paintings by Balthus, replacing girls by a woman, adding bodybuildings and... bloopers.
Xex (1984, 17 min.) A vagina story, co-starring fingers, nipples, buttocks, thighs and a few extras.
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Harald VOGL & Andrew BERGEN, Candide in the Americas (1986, 62 min.) A video sketch of chapters 10-20 of Voltaire's novel in which Candide and his faithful servant Cacambo bomb around this best of all possible worlds in an old Chevy. Quiet, curious, this is the German filmmaker's sketch for a feature film.
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Jack WATERS, Brains by Revlon (1985; 18 min.) A dialogue between three oddly costumed women conversing like three Fates; three Graces; or three fairies from Sleeping Beauty in a curious exercise in style. Stars Philly, Eve Teitelbaum, others.
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Alyce WITTENSTEIN, Betaville (1986; ap. 25 min.) Based on Godard's Alphaville, this "post-modern nightmare" posits a society governed by fashion. Atomique Film Intl release.
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