No Wave Movies

  • 1984
    The Right Side of My Brain

    The Right Side of My Brain

    The Right Side of My Brain

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    Lydia Lunch and Richard Kern's first collaborative effort, The Right Side of My Brain, is a glimpse into the world of unsatiable female lust,...

    The Right Side of My Brain
  • 1982
    Vortex

    Vortex

    Vortex

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    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...

    Vortex
  • 1988
    Put More Blood Into the Music

    Put More Blood Into the Music

    Put More Blood Into the Music

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    PBS produced documentary in two parts: the first is dedicated to saxophonist and composer John Zorn; the second is about Sonic Youth at the height of...

    Put More Blood Into the Music
  • 1985
    The Ballad of Sexual Dependency

    The Ballad of Sexual Dependency

    The Ballad of Sexual Dependency

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    Nan Goldin's slide show “The Ballad of Sexual Dependency” converted, mixed and screened as a film by the artist, portraying the American...

    The Ballad of Sexual Dependency
  • 1980
    Ecstatic Stigmatic

    Ecstatic Stigmatic

    Ecstatic Stigmatic

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    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...

    Ecstatic Stigmatic
  • 1981
    How to Fly

    How to Fly

    How to Fly

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    With HOW TO FLY, Bowes abandoned plot entirely, finding other forms of structure. He wanted to show that stories do not have to obsessively organize...

    How to Fly
  • 1996
    Visiting Desire

    Visiting Desire

    Visiting Desire

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

    Visiting Desire
  • 2020
    Streetwalkin' Cowboy

    Streetwalkin' Cowboy

    Streetwalkin' Cowboy

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    A delusional man in a modern day city dresses, acts like, and has the mindset of a cowboy.

    Streetwalkin' Cowboy
  • 1986
    The Way It Is

    The Way It Is

    The Way It Is

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    A group of actors in the East Village of New York City have been rehearsing for a play when the lead actress in the play turns up dead.

    The Way It Is
  • 1981
    Vincent Gallo as Flying Christ

    Vincent Gallo as Flying Christ

    Vincent Gallo as Flying Christ

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    Vincent Gallo as Flying Christ
  • 1984
    Pesceador

    Pesceador

    Pesceador

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    A young artist is followed by his friend in New York. A Tribute to Jean-Michel Basquiat

    Pesceador
  • 1981
    Only You

    Only You

    Only You

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    In this ostensible murder mystery, the genre elements are merely a pretext for the series of haunting (if inconclusive and only mildly erotic)...

    Only You
  • 2022
    A French Cigarette

    A French Cigarette

    A French Cigarette

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    Two New York poets talk about art, poetry, and smoke in this French New Wave inspired short.

    A French Cigarette
  • 2004
    Arto Lindsay, Forgive the Beauty: The Love Factory

    Arto Lindsay, Forgive the Beauty: The Love Factory

    Arto Lindsay, Forgive the Beauty: The Love Factory

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    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...

    Arto Lindsay, Forgive the Beauty: The Love Factory
  • 1980
    The Trap Door

    The Trap Door

    The Trap Door

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    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),...

    The Trap Door