Film
Downtown NYC Program
- 7PM
Special appearance by downtown luminary Maripol
Dir. Vivienne Dick
1978, 28min, digital
No Wave iconoclast Vivienne Dick depicts an antagonistic relationship between two women—played by the ever-attitudinal Lydia Lunch and Bush Tetras/The Contortions guitarist Pat Place—in this defiantly lo-fi scuzz saga featuring a Coney Island-set climax.
Dir. Becky Johnston
1978, 49min, digital
Downtown luminaries Maripol, John Lurie, Eric Mitchell, and Rene Ricard star in this provocative riff on Otto Preminger’s Laura by way of Georges Bataille about three men obsessed by an absent woman.
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