Kill Your Idols is a documentary film that explores the New York punk rock scene in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The film focuses on the influential no wave movement, featuring interviews and performances by iconic punk musicians.
Put More Blood Into the Music is a documentary film that explores the avant-garde music movement of the 1980s. It delves into the world of no-wave and noise-rock, showcasing the underground music scene and its impact on mainstream culture.
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.
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.
Arriving in the US with a background in abstract art, opera, and film—including work with German director Werner Schroeter—Vogl began making Super8 films in New York that stripped away the stylistic markers of Hollywood, New Wave cinema of the 1960s and ’70s, and classic avant-garde film, leaving only traces of their generic conventions. For the first hour of OK Today Tomorrow, he stages a series of fraught encounters around the city between four gentrified New Yorkers before abandoning his vague narrative of youthful angst altogether in favor of documenting the urban landscape itself. The dusk-to-dawn “city symphony” that ends the film resembles similar Super8 social studies by Vogl’s uptown contemporary John Ahearn; both recorded the daily lives of working-class black and immigrant communities on the streets of a city on the verge of the corporate takeover and sweeping gentrification that followed in the 1980s and ’90s. Preserved by The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
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.
Marisa Monte: Mais is a captivating documentary that explores the life and music of Brazilian singer-songwriter Marisa Monte. It delves into her journey as an artist, her unique musical style that blends various genres, and her impact on the Brazilian music scene. Through interviews, live performances, and behind-the-scenes footage, the film provides an intimate look into Monte's artistic process and the inspirations behind her iconic songs.
Kill Your Idols: More. is a documentary film that delves into the no-wave music scene of New York City in the 1970s and 1980s. The film explores the influential musicians and bands of the movement, their unique sound, and their impact on the music industry. Through interviews, archival footage, and performances, Kill Your Idols: More. takes a deep dive into the gritty and experimental world of no-wave.
Two Moon July was a multidisciplinary event that featured experimental video, film, visual art, performance and music in a theatrical framework. More than thirty artists participated in the program, which was produced for the Kitchen by Carlota Schoolman and directed by Tom Bowes.
Money (1985) is an historical document of the early days of "language poetry" and the downtown improvised music scene. A manic collage film from the mid-80s when it still seemed that Reaganism of the soul could be defeated. Filmed primarily on the streets of Manhattan for the ambient sounds and movements and occasional pedestrian interaction to create a rich tapestry of swirling colors and juxtaposed architectural spaces in deep focus and present the intense urban overflowing energy that is experience living here. Money is thematically centered around a discussion of economic problems facing avant-garde artists. Discussion, however, is fragmented into words and phrases and reassembled into writing. Musical and movement phrases are woven through this conversation to create an almost operatic composition. Give me money!
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.
Arto Lindsay is an American experimental musician. His songs and works as a concept artist circulate through art galleries and theaters around the world.
Studies on sound based on the work of musician Arto Lindsay and the relationship of the body/camera with music. The film discusses art as lyrically as the biographee’s own work.
Documents performances of DNA, James Chance and the Contortions, and Boris Policeband in NYC at a benefit concert for X Motion Picture Magazine and artists’ group Collaborative Projects Inc. It was shot in black and white super 8 and edited on video. It was filmed in 1978 but not completed until 2009.
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