Films
Beaver Trilogy
Synopsis: Beaver Trilogy is a series of three pieces about the same subject, a young man from a small town called Beaver who is obsessed with Olivia Newton John. The first piece, The Beaver Kid, is a documentary. The second piece, Beaver Kid 2, was shot with a home video camera. Beaver Kid 2 which stars Sean Penn is a dramatic work based on the documentary. The third piece, The Orkly Kid, is yet another dramatic work based on the documentary, this time starring yet another actor. (from Harris’ website)
Susan For Now
Synopsis: This film is a memorably vivid and unflinching exploration of this widely practiced and yet little known genre of alternative sexuality. The individuals portrayed convey how BDSM is practiced in a consensual manner.
Quick Billy
Synopsis: The experience of transformation between life and death, death and birth, or rebirth in four reels. (from Canyon Cinema)
Fingered
Synopsis: A phone sex operator befriends a sleazeball and the two spend a torrid afternoon of talking dirty, wild sex and abusing a hitchhiker.
At Land
Synopsis: At Land is another of Maya Deren’s dream like films. The message which it transmits to and its main subject rests on the idea of the mutability of a personality. Maya said once that this film was made to show people the struggle to maintain the personal identity. The whole film has only 15 minutes, in which a whole life is subjectively described. (from Film-Makers’ Cooperative.)
Back Against the Wall
In this “Lynch-like vision of the rotting underbelly of Middle America” (Stephen Holden, The New York Times), the downfall of a lingerie model is portrayed against the depressing, menacing milieus of the men she caters to, including an angry, jealous, middle-aged failure and his strange, no-necked friend. James Fotopoulos presents this dark, sinister story as a three-part feature in the unnerving, highly original style that has made him a major figure of the underground cinema. (from Facets)
Putney Swope
After the CEO croaks during a boardroom meeting at a Madison Avenue ad agency, members trying to sabotage each other’s chance of winning the top spot each vote for the token black guy, thereby electing Putney Swope. Swope swoops into action, firing them all and replacing them with armed radicals, soul brothers, and sexy red-hot mamas. Re-naming the agency “Truth and Soul,” Putney sets about revolutionizing the corporate world of advertising, banning the marketing of products such as cigarettes, alcohol and violent toys. (from Image Entertainment)
Reflections of Evil
Bob (director Damon Packard) is an overweight watch salesman who stumbles around Los Angeles cursing the world of movie production while slowly dying of an addiction to sugar. Can his dead sister who perished from a PCP overdose find him before he joins her on the other side?
The Secret of Wendel Samson
Synopsis: Shy Pop artist Wendel Samson (played by real Pop artist Red Grooms) can’t work up the nerve to break up with his boyfriend, so he has anonymous trysts with other men. Meanwhile, when his female friend Margaret pressures him into an intimate relationship, it sends Wendel spiraling into a nightmare world where he’s violently punished for his sexuality.
Zorns Lemma
“Frampton’s film is an exercise in mathematical logic in cinema. Or is it a mechanical logic?… It’s about alphabet. It’s about the unities of similarities. It’s about sameness in a confusion. It’s about logic in chance. Its about structure and logic. It’s about rhythm. (Jonas Mekas, Village Voice via Filmmakers’ Co-op.)
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