How to Fly

The Way It Is

April 1986 •English

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.

Arto Lindsay, Forgive the Beauty: The Love Factory

November 2004 •Italian

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 small gestures of/with/for/about love, a force that is so violent that nothing will ever be the same again.

Lydia Lunch: Video Hysterie: 1978 - 2006

January 2008 •English

This fascinating and retrospective look at the music of the outspoken and multitalented Lydia Lunch represents every stage of her varied career, with featured songs such as "I Woke Up Screaming" from her Teenage Jesus and the Jerks days. Other songs spanning the decades in this collection include "Freud in Flop," "Sorry for Behaving So Badly," "Dead River," "Solo Mystico," "Summon," "Violence Is the Sport of God" and many more.

The Trap Door

September 1980 •English

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 mauled by predatory bird-women. Finally, he seeks the help of a shrink (the legendary Jack Smith) who turns out to be the most demented of all.

Vortex

September 1982 •English

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.

Only You

January 1981 •English

In this ostensible murder mystery, the genre elements are merely a pretext for the series of haunting (if inconclusive and only mildly erotic) homo-social encounters he stages. Starting with the familiar premise of the absent woman, so popular with Downtown filmmakers, Vogl drains his storytelling of any hints of noir stylization. Instead of nighttime scenes, slick streets, and dark alleys, he shoots documentary-style on the nondescript, sunlit streets of Brooklyn, Manhattan, and City Island in a manner that casually references the art-film angst of Michelangelo Antonioni.

The Ballad of Sexual Dependency

January 1985 •English

Nan Goldin's slide show “The Ballad of Sexual Dependency” converted, mixed and screened as a film by the artist, portraying the American underground culture, the no wave scene, post-Stonewall gay subculture, among others.

Ecstatic Stigmatic

April 1980 •English

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 afflicted with a case of extreme stigmata.

Streetwalkin' Cowboy

August 2020 •English

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

Destruction

January 1984 •English

The aftermath of an experience with Heroin causes a man to destroy anything within his path.

Visiting Desire

November 1996 •English

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

The Right Side of My Brain

April 1984 •English

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, narrated by Lydia Lunch. The film was initially dismissed and dismayed by critics such as J. Hoberman, but the criticism of The Right Side of My Brain received only pushed the two to go one step further with Fingered (1986).

Pesceador

November 1984 •English

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

Put More Blood Into the Music

August 1988 •English

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 their powers in 1988.

A French Cigarette

November 2022 •English

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

Vincent Gallo as Flying Christ

February 1981 •

PINK MOVIE

March 2025 •Vietnamese

A teen is locked in a room with a monitor lizard