Judith Malina

Itália, 1970. Uma legião crescente de guerreiros inofensivos começa uma luta pacífica pela liberdade sexual através da pornografia, abalando e chocando as autoridades religiosas e as instituições políticas conservadoras. Eles são irônicos, felizes, loucos. Eles são sonhadores, defensores da comunhão definitiva entre corpo e alma. Mas eles foram censurados e humilhados. Eles foram maltratados e presos por exigirem alto um novo renascimento cultural.

I am not free. There is a structure in my mind that imprisons me. This structure is the world. I obey certain laws. I could be punished. I cannot act upon my sexual desires. I cannot find the resources I need to create my art. I cannot stop war. I cannot live without money.

The Living Theatre is an experimental company founded in New York in 1947 by Julian Beck (New York 1925-1985), painter and poet, and the actress and stage director Judith Malina (Kiel 1926), a student of Erwin Piscator. From the very beginning the group’s activities bore the stamp of social and political commitment, imbued with a strong libertarian matrix. A video montage of films and videos from The Living Theatre Archives.

The story of legendary New York City disc jockey Bob Fass who pioneered free expression on the airwaves with his long running FM program 'Radio Unnameable'.

A visceral examination of the social contract between the governed and the government, the play explores Leopold von Sacher-Masoch's Six Houses of Bondage: Love, Money, Property, State, War and Death, with a seventh meditation on Revolutionary Change. "Seven Meditations..." was created in 1973 by Julian Beck, Judith Malina & Friends.

In this filmic memoir, German director Rosa von Praunheim returns to New York, a city he knew and loved in the woolly 1970s, to see what he might find and also to check in on the colorful protagonists of his 1989 documentary, Überleben in New York. Both a personal journey and a historical survey, New York Memories captures a transformed city by charting the shifting course of gay life, from Warhol Factory figures to the AIDS ravaged, within it.

Beth Harper é uma bem-sucedida curadora de arte sem muita sorte no amor. Em Roma para o casamento da irmã, ela conhece o charmoso repórter Nick e visita a Fontana D'Amore, onde ao invés de jogar uma moeda como manda a tradição, decide roubar algumas que estavam no fundo. A partir de então vários homens passam a persegui-la dizendo-se apaixonados. Inclusive Nick.

In this entrancing documentary on performance artist, photographer and underground filmmaker Jack Smith, photographs and rare clips of Smith's performances and films punctuate interviews with artists, critics, friends and foes to create an engaging portrait of the artist. Widely known for his banned queer erotica film Flaming Creatures, Smith was an innovator and firebrand who influenced artists such as Andy Warhol and John Waters.

Documentary about the life of avant-garde filmmaker Maya Deren, who led the independent film movement of the 1940s.

Two young lovers meet on a series of snowy days in high school.

"Vou casar com ela!" afirmava o pequeno Danny, assim que presenciou com seu pai médico o nascimento de Anna. Vinte e cinco anos mais tarde, Danny (Jude Law) regressa a sua cidade natal, onde encontra Anna (Gretchen Mol) que, transformada numa bonita mulher, está completamente comprometida com um homem poderoso. Danny começa então a cortejá-la apaixonadamente, desejando tornar realidade suas palavras de vinte e cinco anos atrás. Indecisa entre um matrimônio favorável ou deixar-se levar por uma "atração irresistível" por Danny, Anna aprenderá que as decisões mais importantes da vida se tomam com o coração.

The wacky goings-on at a NYC deli—a comedy starring Mike Starr, Ice-T and Michael Imperioli.

Swearing fidelity to his fiancée, two-faced Scott attempts to bed every woman who crosses his path.

A chronicle of an eccentric Italian-American family in New York City in the 1950's and 60's. Young Teresa dreams of joing the convent, over the objections of her family.

Quando um homem dizendo ser Fester Addams (o irmão desaparecido de Gomez Addams) chega à casa dos Addams, a família está feliz. No entanto, Mortícia começa a suspeitar que Fester é uma fraude, já que ele não consegue se lembrar de detalhes da sua vida. Com a ajuda do advogado Tully Alford, Fester consegue fazer com que o clã Addams seja despejado de sua casa. Gomez percebe que os dois homens estão conspirando para roubar a fortuna de sua família.

Bronx, 1969. Malcolm Sayer é um neurologista que conseguiu emprego em um hospital psiquiátrico. Lá ele encontra vários pacientes que aparentemente estão catatônicos, mas Sayer sente que eles estão só “adormecidos” e que se forem medicados da maneira certa poderão ser despertados. Assim pesquisa bem o assunto e chega à conclusão de que a L-DOPA, uma nova droga que já estava sendo usada para pacientes com o Mal de Parkinson, deve ser o medicamento ideal para este casos. No entanto, ao levar o assunto para o diretor, ele autoriza que apenas um paciente seja submetido ao tratamento.

Herman (Ron Silver) está a ponto de perder a cabeça. Existem três mulheres na sua vida, e ele pode acabar casado com as três. Apesar de eternamente grato à camponesa (Margaret Sophie Stein) que o protegeu dos nazistas, e com quem se casou, Herman mantem uma paixão avassaladora com uma sobrevivente de campo de concentração. E se a bigâmia não fosse suficiente, ele acaba reencontrando sua primeira esposa, que miraculosamente também sobreviveu.

Belgian director Chantal Akerman avoids her usual "real time" technique in Histoires d'Amérique. The anecdotal nature of the subject matter compels Akerman to fragment her narrative, rather than offer it in one, uninterrupted continuum. Still, another Akerman trademark -- permitting the "drama" to emanate from the actors rather than the situations -- is very much in evidence. This informal history of Jewish life over the past 100 years is related in a series of eyewitness accounts, re-created by a group of largely unknown actors. Also known as American Stories, the Belgian/French Histoires d'Amérique began building an audience when it was shown at the Berlin Film Festival.

Teenage lovers Tony (Richard Panebianco) and Tyan-Hwa (Sari Chang) tip the balance of power in New York's Little Italy and Chinatown.

Recém-formado na faculdade, Brantley Foster viaja do Kansas a Nova York para começar em um novo emprego. No entanto, quando Brantley chega, ele descobre que sua posição foi eliminada e é forçado a aceitar um emprego com seu tio Howard, que se tornou presidente da empresa após casar-se. Brantley começa a trabalhar entregando correspondências, mas sobe de posições rapidamente quando começa a fingir que é um executivo.

Um olhar nostálgico na época de ouro do rádio. No início da Segunda Guerra Mundial em Nova York, uma família comum tem seus sonhos inspirados nos programas de rádio da época. Como não existia televisão, as famílias se reuniam ao redor do rádio e cada membro da família tinha seu programa preferido. O destemido Vingador Mascarado, o Café da Manhã Show com os socialites e galanteadores Roger e Irene e Sally, a "Garota dos Cigarros", são quase tão importantes quanto, por exemplo, se o Oceano Pacífico é menor do que o Atlântico, ou mesmo o que o seu pai realmente faz para ganhar a vida.

A cinematic love letter to a pre-gentrification New York City

A compilation of avant-garde artwork and talent of the mid to late 20th century hosted by Ryuichi Sakamoto.

Signals Through the Flames is at once a history and a celebration of the Living Theatre. Founded in the late 1940s by husband-and-wife performers Julian Beck and Judith Malina, the Living Theatre was for many years the predominent American outlet for the avant-garde movement. There were occasional self-imposed exiles to Europe in the 1950s and 1960s, but the group returned full-force during the Aquarius Age to entertain a new generation of theatregoers.

“New York plays itself, as Taylor Mead and Winifred Bryan regale in pas de deux among the trashcans and the towers. The Studiedly Goofy and the Monumentally Grand are joined in masterly pas de don’t [...] The awed couple do battle with the status quo and teach the world to dance on the head of a bin. Rice detects real dignity in Bryan and amazing grace in Mead as they essay solitary promenades through the parks, subways and streets of a wintery New York landscape. Photographed and directed by Ron Rice, edited and scored by Taylor Mead.” –Edward Leffingwell

During the summer of 1966 Jonas Mekas spent two months in Cassis, as a guest of Jerome Hill. Mekas visited him briefly again in 1967, with P. Adams Sitney. The footage of this film comes from those two visits. Later, after Jerome died, Mekas visited his Cassis home in 1974. Footage of that visit constitutes the epilogue of the film. Other people appear in the film, all friends of Jerome.

Shot in 1967 but not released until 1975, actor Pierre Clémenti’s acid-infused experimental whirlwind of colour and music featuring a who’s who of the French 60s underground.

Quando o inexperiente criminoso Sonny Wortzik lidera um assalto a um banco em Brooklyn, as coisas rapidamente dão errado e uma situação de refém se desenvolve. Sonny e seu cúmplice, Sal Naturile, tentam desesperadamente permanecer em controle, mas a mídia vai à loucura e o FBI chega, criando uma tensão ainda maior. Gradualmente, os verdadeiros motivos para o roubo são revelados.

An epic portrait of the New York avant-garde art scene of the 60s.

Five short stories with contemporary settings. In New York, people are indifferent to derelicts sleeping on sidewalks, to a woman's assault in front of an apartment building, and to a couple injured in a car crash. A man, stripped of his identity, dies in bed with actors expressing his agony. A cheerful, innocent young man walking a city street in a time of war pays a price for this innocence. A couple talks about cinema while it watches another couple talk of love and truth on the eve of one character's return to Cuba. Striking students take over a university classroom; an argument follows about revolution or incremental change.

A high school girl encounters a variety of kookie characters and humorous sexual situations while searching for the meaning of life.

The husband-and-wife acting team of Julian Beck and Judith Malina heads the cast of the "theatre on film" presentation “Emergency”. Screened at the First International Festival of Women’s Films, 1972.

A stripped-down account of a young man's existential reckoning. "As dust hides a mirror, lust hides the self," reads one of the film's Vedanta-sourced intertitles. And indeed, while the Pierre Clementi protagonist's inner life remains obscure, the Saint-Germain-des-Pres neighborhood that offers his temptations appears in harrowing detail.

Series of three short 'Pop Films' directed between 1966 - 67 for French television by Philippe Garrel. Includes footage of The Living Theater in rehearsal, interviews with Julian Beck and Judith Malina, Donovan in concert and The Who in the studio recording 'Pictures of Lily'. Re-broadcast on INA in 1984.

Leonardi's film about the Living Theatre is less concerned with a straight documentary presentation of the exile theatre group from New York, but rather is concerned with the specific atmospheric factor which is indicated by their name, and which constitutes the highly suggestive effect of their playing. Cutting, for Leonardi, is the most decisive aesthetic device. The result is a wonderfully composed furioso of pictures. The hand-held camera catches rehearsals, conversations without sound, bits of theatre and daily life actions (which, for Living Theatre people, is very often intermixed).

Travestis, hermafroditas e vampiros mergulham numa orgia bizarra que se mescla a uma curra com relances de pênis flácidos e seios.