Bette Gordon Movies

  • 2016
    The Drowning

    The Drowning

    The Drowning

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    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...

    The Drowning
  • 1985
    Variety

    Variety

    Variety

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    A repressed young woman becomes obsessed with pornography and the mysterious rich patrons of the Times Square porn theater where she works selling...

    Variety
  • 2000
    Luminous Motion

    Luminous Motion

    Luminous Motion

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    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...

    Luminous Motion
  • 2011
    Blank City

    Blank City

    Blank City

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    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...

    Blank City
  • 1992
    North on Evers

    North on Evers

    North on Evers

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    In NORTH ON EVERS James Benning takes the road movie seriously, making his circular trip across the U.S. a marvelously photographed, intensely felt,...

    North on Evers
  • 2009
    Handsome Harry

    Handsome Harry

    Handsome Harry

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    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,...

    Handsome Harry
  • 1986
    Seven Women, Seven Sins

    Seven Women, Seven Sins

    Seven Women, Seven Sins

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    Seven Women, Seven Sins (1986) represents a quintessential moment in film history. The women filmmakers invited to direct for the seven sins were...

    Seven Women, Seven Sins
  • 2021
    Doublespeak

    Doublespeak

    Doublespeak

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    A young woman grapples with the aftermath of reporting sexual harassment in the workplace

    Doublespeak
  • 1974
    I-94

    I-94

    I-94

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    Intercourse between two people who never appear on the screen at the same time. An exploration of sex and male/female identities.

    I-94
  • 2020
    Flight

    Flight

    Flight

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    Made to celebrate Anthology Film Archives’ 50th Anniversary.

    Flight
  • 1980
    Empty Suitcases

    Empty Suitcases

    Empty Suitcases

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    Bette Gordon describes her first feature film as “a narrative derived from film’s own material and my concern for exploring issues of...

    Empty Suitcases
  • 1975
    The United States of America

    The United States of America

    The United States of America

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    A conceptual bicentennial film dealing with spatial and temporal relationships between two travelers, their car, and the geographic, political, and...

    The United States of America
  • 1979
    Exchanges

    Exchanges

    Exchanges

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    Exchanges investigates mechanisms by which meaning is produced in film, through the interaction of the process of construction of a text and the...

    Exchanges
  • 1974
    Michigan Avenue

    Michigan Avenue

    Michigan Avenue

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    A narrative film concerning an investigation of two women in time and space, to the point where the investigation becomes the narrative.

    Michigan Avenue
  • 1975
    An Erotic Film

    An Erotic Film

    An Erotic Film

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    A couple and a train.

    An Erotic Film
  • 1977
    An Algorithm

    An Algorithm

    An Algorithm

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    A visually stunning kinetic rhythm produced by looped footage (mathematical curves) in and out of phase with each other.

    An Algorithm
  • 1975
    Still Life

    Still Life

    Still Life

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    A meditation on the American rustic. Various objects within the composition are re-presented in unnatural colors and unusual spatial arrangements,...

    Still Life
  • 1981
    Anybody's Woman

    Anybody's Woman

    Anybody's Woman

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    The goings-on around a porn theater in New York’s East Village, interspersed with actors recounting experiences with extreme sexualities and a...

    Anybody's Woman
  • 1976
    Webbs

    Webbs

    Webbs

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    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...

    Webbs
  • 1977
    Central Time

    Central Time

    Central Time

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    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...

    Central Time