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...

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

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.

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

Made to celebrate Anthology Film Archives’ 50th Anniversary.

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

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

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

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

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...