Bette Gordon

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...

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

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

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

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,...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

Three women have a strange claustraphobic encounter in the ladies lounge of a luxurious manhattan hotel. Set in a timeless "twilight zone" where...

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

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

A couple and a train.

Made to celebrate Anthology Film Archives’ 50th Anniversary.

Made to celebrate Anthology Film Archives’ 50th Anniversary.

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

A single action seen from alternative left and right perspectives, accentuating reversals, repetitions and persistence of vision. Rather than uniting...