MM Serra-(Art) Core Collection ( Darling International / Bitch-Beauty / Enduring Ornament / Mary Magdalene / Real to reel Mama / Chop Off / Double Your Pleasure / Jack Smith's apartment / L'Amour fou / Eye etc / Turner / Framed / Nightfall / NYC / PPII ) ( Darling International / Bitch-Beauty / Enduring Ornament / Mary Magdalene / Real to reel Mama / Chop Off / Double Your Pleasure / Jack Smith's apartment / Crazy Love / Eye etc / Turner / Framed / Nightfall / NYC / PPII )

MM Serra-(Art) Core Collection (DVD) (*)

$26.99

Original Title: Darling International / Bitch-Beauty / Enduring Ornament / Mary Magdalene / Real to reel Mama / Chop Off / Double Your Pleasure / Jack Smith's apartment / L'Amour fou / Eye etc / Turner / Framed / Nightfall / NYC / PPII
Alternate Title: Darling International / Bitch-Beauty / Enduring Ornament / Mary Magdalene / Real to reel Mama / Chop Off / Double Your Pleasure / Jack Smith's apartment / Crazy Love / Eye etc / Turner / Framed / Nightfall / NYC / PPII
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Sundance Film Festival
Tribeca Film Festival

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
French ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
France ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
116 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Black & White
Booklet

Movie filmed in 1982-2017 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
M.M. Serra
Jennifer Todd Reeves
Josh Lewis

Written By:
Josh Lewis

M.M. Serra

Actors:
Anne Hanavan ..... Anne Hanavan
Ana Flavia Gavlak ..... Saint Anne

Synopsis:

Darling International: A dark and sensual experimental narrative that explores a skilled technical worker's fantasies during her nights as a femme in the lower east side of New York. Bitch-Beauty: Bitch-Beauty is an experimental documentary paralleling the lives of Anne Hanavan, whose experiences as part of the underground scene in the East Village of the 1980s was contemporary with now-deceased actress Zoe Tamerlis Lund, the actor and screenwriter of Bad Lieutenant, who died of a heroin/cocaine overdose in 1999. Using Hanavan's films, performances, readings, and music as well as footage from Lund's work, Bitch-Beauty is an intense seven-minute time capsule of addiction, the perils of street prostitution, and subsequent renewal or revival through cathartic self-expression. Enduring Ornament: Sourced from found 16mm filmstrips originating from coin operated peep show booths of New York formerly seedy 42 street, Enduring Ornament is a film that confronts the cinematic history of idealized patriarchal desire at its fundamental existence as celluloid. Using a repurposed industrial contact printer and various other chemical alterations, we have transformed these images from a privatized male experience into a public projection of materialized bodily spectacle. Threaded throughout the film is the exuberant compound word poetry of Baroness Elsa von Freytag Loringhoven, giving voice to an immediate and transgressive consciousness. Mary Magdalene: 'Mary Magdalene' is separate from you, but comes from you. It is a brilliant, explosive, fierce and passionate gem, the kind that catches light but can also cut. As I said last night, the woman's body is there to contain and resist; she fights the frame and ideology all at the same time, forcing us to think about how images of the body both seduce and confuse us at every turn. The film does not offer easy answers but rather stirs us to move through the world so much more aware. A film about touching that no one can touch. Real to reel Mama: Portrays the views of a first generation Italian-American woman through her life experiences as immigrant, factory worker, and as the "emotional heart of the family". Chop Off: A look at the work of body modification performance artist R.K. Double Your Pleasure: Sound by Jennifer Reeves Part of the 'Ad It Up' series of shorts that are parodies of commercials. Jack Smith's apartment: Film of Jack Smith's apartment starring Penny Arcade before it was reposed by the 'evil landlords.' Crazy Love: A curious meditation on the pleasures and terrors of s/m, in which interviews with enthusiasts collide with choice porn clips, Fleisher cartoons, Hans Bellmer poupees and a couple of sphincter-tightening routines. The results are compelling, this film lingers, never once slipping into hype or deadly cool.' Eye etc: Filmed on vacation in Hawaii, EYE ETC. explores the light, colors and sensuous movement of the Hawaiian culture. Turner: Colorful, energetic, delicate and sensual, this early short by M.M. Serra presents her unique vision of eroticism and poetic cinema in a fast-paced collage of dreamlike imagery. Fragments of a poem by C. Breeze are read and manipulated in a manner recalling the tape experiments of Steve Reich. Rich reds and deep blues stutter and sparkle along with her descriptions of love and 'canine sex.' TURNER is a brief glimpse at Serra's roots in the New York avant-garde and the Film-makers' Cooperative. NYC: Delicate fleeting imagery catches, in two minutes, the flurry of the city's changing moods. PPII: Inspired by Christo, a Christmas celebration wrapping (with red and green ribbons) of a seaside house in Puerto Pinesco, Mexico.

This product was added to our catalog on Saturday 15 October, 2022.