Maria Beatty
2021Sphinxes Without Secrets
Maria Beatty
Diamanda Galás, Laurie Anderson
Since its inception, performance art provided a forum for those artists whose work challenges the dominant aesthetic and cultural status quo. In "Sphinxes Without Secrets", performers, curators and critics unravel the mysteries of performance art and ponder the world women confront today.
Sphinxes Without Secrets
Gang of Souls: A Generation of Beat Poets
Maria Beatty
William S. Burroughs, Jim Carroll
Maria Beatty's documentary exploring the insights and influences of the American Beat Poets. The film conveys their consciousness and sensibility through interviews with William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Diane Di Prima, among others. Also weaves in additional commentary from contemporary musicians, poets and writers such as Marianne Faithfull, Richard Hell, Lydia Lunch and Henry Rollins. Also expands upon how the poets reached new levels of creativity and inspired social change.
Gang of Souls: A Generation of Beat Poets
Strap-On Motel
Maria Beatty
London
LA, on the west coast, along a humid motorway lit by the red neon lights of the strip clubs. London, a gorgeous and wild brunette, arrives. Erotic dancer in a club, she remembers this particular night where she’d been struck by her desire for another dancer, Dylan Ryan, tall sculptural blond who knows exactly what she wants and how she wants it.
Strap-On Motel
Didn't Do It For Love
Monika Treut
Eva Norvind, Nailea Norvind
DIDN'T DO IT FOR LOVE is a documentary portrait of Eva Norvind, a.k.a. Mistress Ava Taurel, born Eva Johanne Chegodaieva Sakonskaya in Trondheim, Norway. The film follows Eva's many careers, from her time as a showgirl in Paris to becoming Mexico's Marilyn Monroe in the 1960s to establishing herself as New York's most famous dominatrix in the 1980s. Using clips from Norvind's Mexican films, stills from various periods, and interviews with friends, partners and family, Treut's documentary traces Eva's search for the wellspring of her obsessive and dark sexuality.
Didn't Do It For Love
Sluts & Goddesses Video Workshop
Maria Beatty, Annie Sprinkle
Annie Sprinkle
A humorous, absurd, heartfelt and worshipful look at sex. Features many exotic ways to stimulate sexual and sensual pleasure, like flagellation with oak leaves, body contortions, tattooing, piercing, shaving and gender play.
Sluts & Goddesses Video Workshop
Mutantes
Virginie Despentes
Norma Jean Almodovar, Maria Beatty
Mutantes sheds light on a feminism that was little talked about in France. This documentary comprises of a series of interviews conducted in the USA, Paris and Barcelona, and documents from the archives about the political action of sex workers, queer activists and post-pornographic performances.
Mutantes
The Seven Deadly Sins
Maria Beatty
Maria Beatty
The Seven Deadly Sins reveals a new setting for a mistress and her young maid: the roaring 20's when decadence was a privilege. The mistress is an expert in the art of sensual torment, and she punishes her servant in a re-enactment of the lessons of Seven Deadly Sins.
The Seven Deadly Sins
Boy in a Bathtub
Maria Beatty
Clyde Baldo, Brandon Ruckdashel
At the height of the 1920's Paris, Flora, a beautiful courtesan and a kept woman by a famous surgeon falls madly in love with Virgil, a cherubin florist, 20 years younger than her who wants to become a painter.
Boy in a Bathtub
Spit and Ashes
Maria Beatty
Lydia Lunch
Spit and Ashes is a reimagining of the historical violence waged against women by patriarchal forces in the name of religion, medicine and family. The High Priestess embodies the wild, sexual and grotesque - the un-tamable hunger of female desire and the ultimate threat to male power. The Midwife is the spirit of all women who sought knowledge and agency over their own bodies and paid for their agency with their lives. Through a series of erotic and brutal rituals these women come together to reclaim their bodies and prepare for the fight ahead.
Spit and Ashes
