Intimate portraits of gay artists and drag performers talking about gender, identity, and all the fine lines around it. The film is an important reminder that for us today drag queen performances are ...
A stark portrait of women and their relationships to their bodies, oftentimes self-abnegating, the women speak about the binds that tie them to distorted perceptions of self. As a mirror image of our ...
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.
Following three veterans and their grown children back to the land where they witnessed incredible carnage as soldiers, director Beth B investigates "what we pass on from one generation to the next" i...
As an intense study of the physical, psychological and social breakdown of the human condition, the documentary questions a system that has lost its aspiration to reform while adding the television do...
In collaboration with legendary downtown performance artist/musician Lydia Lunch, Beth B creates a chilling yet poetic vision of despairing nihilism (literally, a "meditation on death"). In a hypnotic...
Set in a New York wasteland where some have accumulated great wealth and others live in desperate poverty having to turn to crime to survive. A “savage satire” full of violence and nihilis...
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, lo...
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 -...
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, he...
Speaking to the entrapment we feel when caught in the violence of being attacked and of the attacker himself caught in the web of his own imagined powers and fears and eventual incarceration, the work...
An exciting, playful and amusing psychological experiment in New York City in the mid-'90s. Bringing together a group of total strangers, locking them in a bedroom with cameras for five days, they wer...
In this disturbing documentary about juvenile sex offenders, Beth B uses interviews with the offenders and with officials who work with them, on the subjects of sex, abuse, family and the legacy of ab...
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 ...