Bette Gordon Movies
- 2016
The Drowning
The Drowning4.52016HD
A psychiatrist faces his past, present and future when he finds himself involved in the treatment of a young man recently released from prison for a...
- 1985
Variety
Variety5.21985HD
A repressed young woman becomes obsessed with pornography and the mysterious rich patrons of the Times Square porn theater where she works selling...
- 2000
Luminous Motion
Luminous Motion4.92000HD
A mom and her 10-year-old son motor around the country as she makes ends meet by turning tricks until her car breaks down. She then temporarily takes...
- 2011
Blank City
Blank City72011HD
In the years before Ronald Reagan took office, Manhattan was in ruins. But true art has never come from comfort, and it was precisely those dire...
- 1992
North on Evers
North on Evers7.21992HD
In NORTH ON EVERS James Benning takes the road movie seriously, making his circular trip across the U.S. a marvelously photographed, intensely felt,...
- 2009
Handsome Harry
Handsome Harry5.92009HD
An ex-Navy man carrying out the last wish of a dying shipmate renews contact with old friends to break the code of silence around a mysterious,...
- 1986
Seven Women, Seven Sins
Seven Women, Seven Sins5.81986HD
Seven Women, Seven Sins (1986) represents a quintessential moment in film history. The women filmmakers invited to direct for the seven sins were...
- 2021
Doublespeak
Doublespeak4.82021HD
A young woman grapples with the aftermath of reporting sexual harassment in the workplace
- 1974
I-94
I-945.41974HD
Intercourse between two people who never appear on the screen at the same time. An exploration of sex and male/female identities.
- 2020
Flight
Flight02020HD
Made to celebrate Anthology Film Archives’ 50th Anniversary.
- 1980
Empty Suitcases
Empty Suitcases5.21980HD
Bette Gordon describes her first feature film as “a narrative derived from film’s own material and my concern for exploring issues of...
- 1975
The United States of America
The United States of America7.61975HD
A conceptual bicentennial film dealing with spatial and temporal relationships between two travelers, their car, and the geographic, political, and...
- 1979
Exchanges
Exchanges01979HD
Exchanges investigates mechanisms by which meaning is produced in film, through the interaction of the process of construction of a text and the...
- 1974
Michigan Avenue
Michigan Avenue61974HD
A narrative film concerning an investigation of two women in time and space, to the point where the investigation becomes the narrative.
- 1975
An Erotic Film
An Erotic Film01975HD
A couple and a train.
- 1977
An Algorithm
An Algorithm01977HD
A visually stunning kinetic rhythm produced by looped footage (mathematical curves) in and out of phase with each other.
- 1975
Still Life
Still Life01975HD
A meditation on the American rustic. Various objects within the composition are re-presented in unnatural colors and unusual spatial arrangements,...
- 1981
Anybody's Woman
Anybody's Woman01981HD
The goings-on around a porn theater in New York’s East Village, interspersed with actors recounting experiences with extreme sexualities and a...
- 1976
Webbs
Webbs01976HD
This recently unearthed and newly digitized work is a richly minimalist, single-camera-setup portrait of the sights and sounds at a late-night diner...
- 1977
Central Time
Central Time01977HD
a time-lapse glimpse of the Madison, WI skyline from dusk to dark. Shot from within a hotel room, the street traffic and the reflected interior...