The Trap Door(1980)

Pesceador(en)

A young artist is followed by his friend in New York. A Tribute to Jean-Michel Basquiat

The Way It Is(en)

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.

Arto Lindsay, Forgive the Beauty: The Love Factory(it)

In the void created ad hoc to throw us into desperation, fear, shock, the torment of an infinite present, Arto Lindsay sings with words, silences and small gestures of/with/for/about love, a force that is so violent that nothing will ever be the same again.

The Ballad of Sexual Dependency(en)

Nan Goldin's slide show “The Ballad of Sexual Dependency” converted, mixed and screened as a film by the artist, portraying the American underground culture, the no wave scene, post-Stonewall gay subculture, among others.

Only You(en)

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. Starting with the familiar premise of the absent woman, so popular with Downtown filmmakers, Vogl drains his storytelling of any hints of noir stylization. Instead of nighttime scenes, slick streets, and dark alleys, he shoots documentary-style on the nondescript, sunlit streets of Brooklyn, Manhattan, and City Island in a manner that casually references the art-film angst of Michelangelo Antonioni.

Vortex(en)

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 of politicians.

Put More Blood Into the Music(en)

PBS produced documentary in two parts: the first is dedicated to saxophonist and composer John Zorn; the second is about Sonic Youth at the height of their powers in 1988.

The Right Side of My Brain(en)

Lydia Lunch and Richard Kern's first collaborative effort, The Right Side of My Brain, is a glimpse into the world of unsatiable female lust, narrated by Lydia Lunch. The film was initially dismissed and dismayed by critics such as J. Hoberman, but the criticism of The Right Side of My Brain received only pushed the two to go one step further with Fingered (1986).

Streetwalkin' Cowboy(en)

A delusional man in a modern day city dresses, acts like, and has the mindset of a cowboy.

Visiting Desire(en)

Complete strangers meet in a room to act out their sexual desires.

Vincent Gallo as Flying Christ(xx)

How to Fly(en)

With HOW TO FLY, Bowes abandoned plot entirely, finding other forms of structure. He wanted to show that stories do not have to obsessively organize and explain data, and that television’s hundreds of simultaneous, fragmented narratives – news, fiction, commercials, sports, etc. – had prepared audiences for this new type of structure. — Charles Ruas

Destruction(en)

The aftermath of an experience with Heroin causes a man to destroy anything within his path.

Lydia Lunch: Video Hysterie: 1978 - 2006(en)

This fascinating and retrospective look at the music of the outspoken and multitalented Lydia Lunch represents every stage of her varied career, with featured songs such as "I Woke Up Screaming" from her Teenage Jesus and the Jerks days. Other songs spanning the decades in this collection include "Freud in Flop," "Sorry for Behaving So Badly," "Dead River," "Solo Mystico," "Summon," "Violence Is the Sport of God" and many more.

Ecstatic Stigmatic(en)

No-Wave film directed by Gordon Stevenson from Teenage Jesus & the Jerks. Mirielle Cervenka (Exene's sister) plays a young woman named Rose who is afflicted with a case of extreme stigmata.

A French Cigarette(en)

Two New York poets talk about art, poetry, and smoke in this French New Wave inspired short.

Gothic Assassins Redux(en)

From the ashes of a fallen society, a new cluster of assassins will rise, to avenge their dead comrades.

Streamer(en)

An isolated young man becomes obsessed with a webcam girl who lives in his building and befriends her, despite conflicted feelings.

Monkey(bg)

Some time between childhood and adulthood, when life is a string of easy decisions, the world of half-sisters Iva and Maya is about to change drastically. They would have to find answers to questions grown-ups don’t even dare to ask. Can the two teenagers make decisions of life and death?

Die Welt Nebenan(de)