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Beth B

Beth B

During the late 1970s-early 1980s, Beth and Scott B were among the most significant proponents of the No-Wave, no-budget style of underground punk filmmaking.  The feature films Beth B has since made on her own are ambitious in content.

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Movies Made By Beth B (26)

Glowing Evelyn (2023)

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 founda ...

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Lydia Lunch: The War Is Never Over (2019)

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 performance devo ...

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Call Her Applebroog (2016)

This deeply personal portrait of acclaimed New York–based artist Ida Applebroog was shot with mischievous reverence by her filmmaker daughter, Beth B. Born in the Bronx to Orthodox Jewish émigrés from Poland, Applebroog, now in her 80s, looks back at h ...

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Exposed (2013)

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 a popu ...

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Hysteria (2001)

Hysteria explores issues surrounding women's emotions and sexuality, and their social manifestations. ...

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Breathe In, Breathe Out (2001)

Bravely bringing three severely traumatized Vietnam War veterans and their adult children back to Vietnam, this documentary explores rebirth and the reconciliation process, using raw, intense, and often revelatory scenes, captured in a vérité style, to c ...

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Voices Unheard (1998)

Documentary feature by Beth B. ...

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Visiting Desire (1996)

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

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Out of Sight, Out of Mind (1995)

An intense study of the physical, psychological, and social breakdown of the human condition, this documentary questions a system that has lost its aspiration to reform. ...

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Under Lock and Key (1994)

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 of spe ...

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High Heel Nights (1994)

Intimate portraits of gay artists and drag performers talking about gender, identity, and all the fine lines around them. Beth B's short film is a stirring reminder that drag-queen performances may be accepted in the mainstream today, but there was a time ...

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Two Small Bodies (1993)

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 life in g ...

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Amnesia (1992)

A stark and uncompromising portrayal of the escalation of xenophobic sentiment in a neo-conservative climate. Beth B refuses to preach and, by extension, to divide. The work trusts the ambiguity of art, rather than to assume a condescending position of kno ...

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Thanatopsis (1991)

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 banali ...

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American Nightmare (1991)

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. ...

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Stigmata (1991)

A half dozen men and women, each addressing the camera directly and alone, speak of their involvement with drugs. ...

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Belladonna (1989)

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 the tria ...

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Salvation! (1987)

A troubled young woman hooks up with a money-crazed televangelist and becomes a rich, heavy-metal Christian rock star. ...

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The Dominatrix Sleeps Tonight (1984)

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 of ...

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Vortex (1982)

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 po ...

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The Trap Door (1980)

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 hustled ...

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The Offenders (1980)

A punk savage satire about a kidnapping. ...

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Black Box (1979)

An innocent youth is abducted and dragged down into a dystopian nightmare where teenage Lydia Lunch throws him into the Black Box. ...

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The Deadly Art of Survival (1979)

Real-life kung fu master Nathan Ingram stars in this gritty, low-budget martial arts epic as a local karate school owner who clashes with a gang of drug traffickers posing as the owners of a rival dojo. Director Charlie Ahearn (who helmed the landmark hip- ...

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Letters to Dad (1979)

The almost lyrical Letters to Dad, is a meditation on authority that superimposes the spectre of Jonestown over the relatively fresh faces of the parapunk art world; the film takes on a musical form - like a 20th-century ballad composed of subliminal behav ...

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G-Man (1978)

An exploration of social schizophrenia in which terrorists consult their mothers before planting bombs, and the head of the New York City bomb squad succumbs to his dominatrix. ...

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Movies Starring Beth B (9)

Blank City (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 ...

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No Wave - Underground '80: Berlin - New York (2009)

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. Dreher. ...

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Richard Kern - Portrait: Live From New York (1997)

Haxan Films-produced documentary on Richard Kern's work around 1997. Footage from his photo sessions, interviews with Kern and his models, etc. Features associates such as Lydia Lunch, Beth B and more. ...

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No Age New York (1993)

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. ...

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Belladonna (1989)

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 the tria ...

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Vortex (1982)

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 po ...

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No New York Festival - Berlin (1979)

The "No New York Festival" on a tour of Europe. This concert is at SO36, Kreuzberg, Berlin, where a sprawling variety of bands and musicians related to the NNNF performed. ...

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The Deadly Art of Survival (1979)

Real-life kung fu master Nathan Ingram stars in this gritty, low-budget martial arts epic as a local karate school owner who clashes with a gang of drug traffickers posing as the owners of a rival dojo. Director Charlie Ahearn (who helmed the landmark hip- ...

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Letters to Dad (1979)

The almost lyrical Letters to Dad, is a meditation on authority that superimposes the spectre of Jonestown over the relatively fresh faces of the parapunk art world; the film takes on a musical form - like a 20th-century ballad composed of subliminal behav ...

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