M.M. Serra

Correspondencia Jonas Mekas - J.L. Guerin

Jonas Mekas, José Luis Guerin

Jonas Mekas, José Luis Guerin

A series of video letters between José Luis Guerín and Jonas Mekas.

Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film

Pip Chodorov

Pip Chodorov, Stan Brakhage

Experimental filmmaker Pip Chodorov traces the course of experimental film in America, taking the very personal point of view of someone who grew up as part of the experimental film community.

Bitch-Beauty

M.M. Serra

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.

Turner

M.M. Serra

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.

Silent Garden

M.M. Serra

Spring time in my garden with Francesca, visual variations of green light and shadows.

Endless Possibilities: Jack Waters and Peter Cramer

M.M. Serra

Exploration of the life and work of Jack Waters and Peter Cramer.

Jack Smith's Apartment

M.M. Serra

Penny Arcade

Film of Jack Smith's apartment starring Penny Arcade before it was reposed by the "evil landlords."

Chop Off

M.M. Serra

"Chop Off exposes the dark, fearful recesses of the human psyche by filming the body modification of performance artist R.K. Literally risking "life and limb," R.K.'S body is his medium and amputation is his art. The very act of filming him often stimulates a cascading range of emotions, from disgust to fear to dread." - Tribeca Film Festival 2009

PPII

M.M. Serra

Inspired by Christo, a Christmas celebration wrapping (with red and green ribbons) of a seaside house in Puerto Pinesco, Mexico. (16mm / color / sound)

Base

M.M. Serra

Premier of Lhasa Club, a small club in L.A. California. It was famous for providing an eclectic program. Jean-Pierre Boccara opened the club in 1982 and started to book punk/new wave band combined with performance artists, cabaret acts, comedians, poets and art-exhibition.

Enduring Ornament

M.M. Serra

Sourced from five 16mm filmstrips found outside of a closing adult bookstore on New York's former 42nd Street sex district.

Real to Reel Momma

M.M. Serra

"... portrays the views of a first generation Italian-American woman though her life experiences as immigrant, factory worker, and as the 'emotional heart of the family.'" – Fabrice Ziolkowski

A Lot of Fun for the Evil One

M.M. Serra

Where art & erotica meet! Using a series of exciting sex games in which sadism and punishment are central, dark masturbation tales are portrayed. On the soundtrack, John Zorn & David Shea inter-wires with mastery magician Aleister Crowley with sound of acoustic instruments to an invigorating soundscape.

NYC

M.M. Serra

Delicate fleeting imagery catches, in two minutes, the flurry of the city’s changing moods.

Nightfall

M.M. Serra

16mm / color and b/w / sound

Notes From the Lower East Side

Peggy Ahwesh, M.M. Serra

An experimental documentary filmed over a two-year period, NOTES FROM THE LOWER EAST SIDE includes such personalities as Clayton Patterson, performance artist Penny Arcade, Anthology's own Jed Rapfogel, and other amazing HOWL Fest personalities.