Pat Place

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 circumstances that inspired artists like Jim Jarmusch, Lizzy Borden, and Amos Poe to produce some of their best works. Taking their cues from punk rock and new wave music, these young maverick filmmakers confronted viewers with a stark reality that stood in powerful contrast to the escapist product being churned out by Hollywood.

세상에서 가장 평화로웠던 혁명이 끝나고 10년 후 뉴욕. 집권 여당인 사회당은 느릿느릿 진행되는 개혁에 박차를 가하기 위해 사람들에게 굳게 단결할 것을 요구한다. 한편, 여성단체는 이러한 요구에 불만이 많다. 늘어나는 거리폭력과 강간사태를 막기 위해 자경단이 조직되고, "여성의 군대"라는 활동 단체는 여성의 실직에 반대하는 투쟁을 지지하고 나선다. 그 과정에서 여성 문제에 대한 홍보가 필요함을 느낀 여성의 군대는 두 개의 언더그라운드 라디오 방송국에 접근한다. 감시와 체포가 빈번하게 행해지며 극이 클라이 맥스를 향해 갈수록 서로 뭉칠 수 없는 듯 보이던 여성단체들이 공통된 목적을 위해 함께하기 시작한다. (2017년 제19회 서울국제여성영화제)

Second feature film by the French-born director is a Bertolucci-style story of a bored, rich woman looking for romance and adventure. She meets an American G.I., dumps him, then falls for a Communist worker.

The almost lyrical Letters to Dad, is a meditation on authority that superimposes the spectre of Jonestown over the relatively fresh faces of the parapunk art world; the film takes on a musical form - like a 20th-century ballad composed of subliminal behavior cues, advertising testimonials, and the text of the National Enquirer

Nares mocks up Ancient Rome by shooting in faux-classical sites like Grant's Tomb and Tribeca's American Thread Building, where a decrepit penthouse loft with a peeling-paint dome serves as an echoey stand-in for the imperial palace. The latter location required ingenuity: Posing as potential renters, Nares and associates asked the manager to show them the apartment, then unlocked the windows on the way out; a few hours later, they broke back into the space, full cast and crew in tow, to shoot the necessary scenes.

Pat Place plays a creature who lives in an old abandoned barge on a rubbish strewn beach. The mood is post-apocalyptic and the music of Telstar mixed with domestic kitchen clatter.

This experimental short consists of eight unedited rolls of super-8 film, each of which profiles an individual woman in real time. The women engage in everyday behaviour, such as playing pinball or reading a letter aloud.

Two women- one passive and resigned, the other aggressive and domineering - interact in various locations in New York city. The film explores the dynamic between them before ending with a showdown at the roller-coaster on Coney Island.