Kino Lorber - Experience Cinema

Action U.S.A.

Indie · Action

Turns out a Texas stuntman-turned-filmmaker unleashed the most explosive, death-defying, bullet-riddled, grenade-launching, flame-broiled, anti-human megattack in independent film history back in 1989, and no one knew… UNTIL NOW.

Amnesia

A one-minute video that compresses with an economy of time and textual editing a direct assault on the languages of hate and intolerance.

Belladonna

A number of somber talking heads frankly describe their most personal and perverse attitudes on sex, violence and other family matters.

The Birth of a Nation

Historic Drama · War · Silent

Almost a century after its release, The Birth of a Nation remains one of the most controversial films ever made... a landmark achievement of filmmaking that undeniably demonstrates the deep roots of America's racist history.

Black Box

A man is tortured by his girlfriend and then locked inside a black box.

Boneshop of the Heart

Fine Art · Documentary · Art Documentaries

This acclaimed and thought-provoking documentary provides a rare and illuminating exploration of the creative process through incisive portraits of five seminal figures from a significant chapter in contemporary American folk art. Variously described as outsiders, naive, or visionary, the artists pr…

The Cheat

Silent

A society woman falls victim to a Burmese ivory trader (Sessue Hayakawa) who intends to brand her for his own. A visually powerful today as when it was made. U.S. 1915. 59 min. B/W.

G-MAN

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.

High Heel Nights

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 accepted in the mainstream, however there was a time when it was strictly underground.

Hysteria

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 cultural pressures on women, the film challenges accepted views of truth and falsehood, reality and …

Letters to Dad

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 - like a 20th-century ballad composed of subliminal behavior cues, advertising testimonials, and the …

Love, Sweat & Tears

Documentary

Death, taxes, and menopause are unavoidable facts of life. Love, Sweat & Tears is a groundbreaking, inspiring, and humorous look at a long-taboo subject that will impact both women and men during their lifetimes.

Lydia Lunch: The War Is Never Over

Documentary · Music Documentaries · Academy Award Winners

Filmmaker Beth B accompanies the legendarily boundary-pushing No Wave musician and underground performance artist Lydia Lunch on her latest tour and, through interviews with her collaborators and Lunch herself, examines the qualities that have been present in her provocative and powerful art since t…

Manslaughter

Silent

Leatrice Joy as a pampered debutante who is forced to confront her irresponsible lifestyle when she causes the death of a traffic cop. Dir. Cecil B. DeMille. U.S. 1922. 100 mins. Color-tinted B&W. Music by The Alloy Orchestra. A Paramount Picture.

Out of Sight, Out of Mind

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 docudrama style of the late-20th century that drives our knowledge of accepted views of truth and mora…

Salvation!

A troubled young woman hooks up with a money-crazed televangelist and becomes a rich, heavy-metal Christian rock star.

Stigmata

A half dozen men and women, each addressing the camera directly and alone, speak of their involvement with drugs.

Thanatopsis

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 narrative, a beautiful young woman negotiates the banalities of life. In a mesmerizing voiceover wh…

The Dominatrix Sleeps Tonight

Hairspray, skin and eyeliner on full display as a gang of leather-clad, powerful women take over a traditionally male domain.

The Offenders

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 nihilism, this low budget Super 8 film embodies the period’s do-it-yourself ethos, as well as, the fu…

The Trap Door

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, loses his girlfriend to sleazy Richard Prince, is hustled by prospective employer (Bill Rice) and maul…

Two Small Bodies

Crime · Drama · Romance

After the disappearance of her two children, nightclub hostess Eileen Maloney (Suzy Amis, The Ballad of Little Jo) is confronted in her home by an aggressive police lieutenant (Fred Ward, Henry and June) who subjects her to a series of ruthless interrogations.

Under Lock and Key

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 exposes the perpetrators of violence by revealing their words and the words of their victims. The w…

Visiting Desire

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 were encouraged to act out their fantasies and desires. In this twisted version of Big Brother, the div…

Voices Unheard

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 abuse, to dismantle taboos. Exploring the challenges of integrating these youths back into society, sh…

Vortex

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 through real “corporate wars” and the manipulation of politicians.

Voyeur

An evocative portraits of people having orgasms, lingering on the silent classical face of ecstasy.

The Woodmans

Photography · Fine Art · Documentary

A fascinating, unflinching portrait of the late photographer Francesca Woodman, told through the young artist's work (including experimental videos and journal entries) and remarkably candid interviews with her artist parents Betty and George (a ceramic sculptor and painter/photographer).

Breathe in, Breathe Out

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" in the hope that the experience will help both fathers and children come to grips with the war and ea…