Bette Gordon Movies

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...

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,...

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

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

Stylized, black and white biography of Frances Farmer by author Lynne Tillman and Sheila McLauglin.

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 single mother and her 10-year-old son motor around the country as she makes ends meet and enters various relationships that her son has yet to...

Agatha is an international lawyer, Jo a filmmaker. The two women are lovers. While Jo is on the road showing her films, Agatha discovers and reads...

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

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

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.

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

65 shots making up a cryptically alluded-to narrative: a lesbian couple's Midwest travels, a hitchhiking young man's journeys, the story of a man who...

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

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

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

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

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

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