Director: Trent Harris

Starring: “Groovin’ Gary,” Sean Penn, Crispin Glover, Elizabeth Daily

Year: 2000

Runtime: 83 mins.

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)

DVD: No

Official Website: Trent Harris website

Reviews: Bad Lit (Mike Everleth)
Variety (Dennis Harvey)
All Movie Guide (Jason Buchanan)
DVD Holocaust (The Naked Kiss)

Film Festivals: New York Video Festival (2000)

Video: Groovin’ Gary - New York City Rhythm

Director: Robin Franzi

Starring: Not Applicable

Year: 2007

Runtime: 54 mins.

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.

DVD: Susan for Now

Official Website: None

Reviews: Bad Lit (Mike Everleth)
Prost Amerika (unknown)

Film Festivals: Seattle True Independent Film Festival, Seattle, WA (2007)
Brooklyn International Film Festival, Brooklyn, NY (2007)
Melbourne Underground Film Festival, Melbourne, Australia (2007)
Seattle Sex Positive Community Center, Seattle, WA (2007)
Portland International Film Festival – public review with Warren Etheredge, Portland, OR (2007)
Cinekink Film Festival, New York City, NY, San Francisco, CA (2008)
Golden Gate Fiction & Documentary Film Festival, San Francisco, CA (2008)
New Filmmakers, Los Angeles (2008)
Fetisch Film Festival, Kiel, Germany (2008)

Video: Trailer

Director: Bruce Bailie

Starring: Not Applicable

Year: 1971

Runtime: 56 mins.

Synopsis: The experience of transformation between life and death, death and birth, or rebirth in four reels. (from Canyon Cinema)

DVD: None

Official Website: None

Reviews: None

Video: None

Director: Richard Kern

Starring: Lydia Lunch, Marty Nation, Lung Leg, Emilio Cubeiro, Jet, Pete Haskel

Year: 1986

Runtime: 25 mins.

Synopsis: A phone sex operator befriends a sleazeball and the two spend a torrid afternoon of talking dirty, wild sex and abusing a hitchhiker.

DVD: The Hardcore Collection (compilation)

Official Website: None

Reviews: eFilmCritic (Charles Tatum)

Video: None

Director: Maya Deren

Starring: Maya Deren, Alexander Hammid, John Cage, Parker Tyler

Year: 1944

Runtime: 15 mins.

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.)

DVD: Maya Deren: Experimental Films (compilation)

Official Website: None

Reviews: Ferdy on Films (Marilyn Ferdinand)

Video: None

Director: James Fotopoulos

Starring: Debbie Mulcahy, Martin Shannon, Ernie E. Frantz, Michael Wexler

Year: 2000

Runtime: 94 mins.

Synopsis: 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)

DVD: Facets Multi Media

Official Website: None

Reviews: Bad Lit (Mike Everleth)
Village Voice (J. Hoberman)
Variety (Scott Foundas)

Video: None

Director: Robert Downey Sr.

Starring: Arnold Johnson, Stan Gottlieb, Allen Garfield, Archie Russell, Ramon Gordon, Bert Lawrence, Joe Madden

Year: 1969

Runtime: 84 mins.

Synopsis: 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)

DVD: Image Entertainment

Official Website: None

Reviews: Variety (Unknown)
Onion A.V. Club (Noel Murray)
GreenCine (Erin Donovan)
Chicago Reader (Jonathan Rosenbaum)
TV Guide (Unknown)

Video: Trailer

Director: Damon Packard

Starring: Damon Packard, Nicole Vanderhoff, Beverly Miller, Dean Spunt

Year: 2002

Runtime: 138 mins.

Synopsis: 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?

DVD: Available from filmmaker

Official Website: None

Reviews: Chicago Reader (J.R. Jones)
DVD Verdict (Bill Gibron)
Monsters at Play (Lawrence P. Raffel)

Video: Trailer

Director: Mike Kuchar

Starring: Red Grooms, Mimi Gross, Bob Cowan, George Kuchar, Floraine Connors, Maren Thomas, Albert Salzano

Year: 1966

Runtime: 33 mins.

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.

DVD: Other Cinema (compilation)

Official Website: None

Reviews: Bad Lit (Mike Everleth)
DVD Talk (Bill Gibron)

Video: None

Director: Hollis Frampton

Starring: Not Applicable

Year: 1970

Runtime: 60 mins.

Synopsis: “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.)

DVD: None

Official Website: Hollis Frampton site

Reviews: None

Video: None