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,...

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

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

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

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...

This recently unearthed and newly digitized work is a richly minimalist, single-camera-setup portrait of the sights and sounds at a late-night diner...

A mom and her 10-year-old son motor around the country as she makes ends meet by turning tricks until her car breaks down. She then temporarily takes...

Made to celebrate Anthology Film Archives’ 50th Anniversary.

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A couple and a train.