Ecstatic Stigmatic

Destruction

January 1984 •English

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

PINK MOVIE

March 2025 •Vietnamese

A teen is locked in a room with a monitor lizard

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.

Punk: Attitude

July 2005 •English

A documentary on the music, performers, attitude and distinctive look that made up punk rock.

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.

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.

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.

Charlie Harper, 20 Years of Chaos

January 1996 •English

This documentary is more than anything a film about punk ideology told by punk survivors. The characters have been faithful to the 70's riot, and have developed their aggression into reflective thoughts and opinions. In making our film we have discovered the extremes within this community and how, after more than twenty years, the music is still as popular today.

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 •

Give 'Em The Boot

August 2005 •English

Featuring eighty-two minutes of extremely rare, never-before-seen international concert performance footage of bands such as Rancid, Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros, Dropkick Murphys, The Slackers, Roger Miret and the Disasters and Tiger Army - to name just a few, the GIVE 'EM THE BOOT DVD is a gritty look into the underworld of Hellcat Records through the eyes of founder Tim Armstrong and a hoard of his Hellcat family members! Highlights include performances and extra footage from tours such as the Rancid/ NOFX tour, the first Lars Frederiksen And The Bastards tour, various headline tours and both Hellcat Records’ Punks VS. Psychos Tours.

The Fleshtones: Pardon Us for Living But the Graveyard Is Full

April 2009 •English

When a gang of suburban teens stumbled across a bunch of abandoned instruments and formed The Fleshtones little did they know that 30 years later they'll still be struggling to rock - and pay the bills.

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 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.

How to Fly

January 1981 •English

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 and explain data, and that television’s hundreds of simultaneous, fragmented narratives – news, fiction, commercials, sports, etc. – had prepared audiences for this new type of structure. — Charles Ruas

The Clash: Tory Crimes and Other Tales

January 2008 •English

For the first time on DVD, Terry Chimes fills in the story of the birth of punk. Essential viewing for every Clash fan, this incisive film features long-serving road manager and author Johnny Green who reveals the philosophy and the spirit which drove the band. Drawing on extensive footage of the Clash in performance as well as previously unseen drawings and cartoons by the legendary Ray Lowry, this is as close as you¹ll ever get to being there.

Streetwalkin' Cowboy

August 2020 •English

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

Visiting Desire

November 1996 •English

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

Pesceador

November 1984 •English

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