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- DirectorAmos PoeStarsDuncan HannahEric MitchellKitty SondernPhotographer Rico fantasizes himself a 1960s Paris gangster. An outsider using his camera like a gun, he searches for reality to fulfill his dreams until falling in love disrupts the delicate balance of his imagined world.
- DirectorAmos PoeStarsEric MitchellAnya PhillipsPatti AstorEuropean secret agent Max Menace arrives in New York City, waiting for his contact to tell him his assignment. He becomes entangled with an assortment of odd characters and situations, but never learns why he's there.
- DirectorAmos PoeStarsRobbie ColtraneCharlene KaleinaCookie MuellerA Psychotic saxophone player (played both by Amos Poe and John Lurie) lures victims to deserted spots with his music and then guns them down.
- DirectorAmos PoeStarsVincent SpanoMichael WinslowKate VernonA New York City drug dealer decides to get out of the business, but has to flee from mobsters.
- DirectorCeline DanhierStarsAmos PoeAnn MagnusonBecky JohnstonDuring the punk rock stage in the late '70s, downtown New York experienced a wave of "Do it yourself" independent filmmaking.
- DirectorIvan KrálAmos PoeStarsBlondieDavid ByrneJohn CaleThe cream of New York new wave/punk filmed live at CBGB's when the scene was just beginning. Includes performances by Patti Smith, Blondie, Television, the Ramones, Talking Heads, the Heartbreakers, the Shirts, Wayne County, the Marbles, the Dolls, Miamis, Harry Toledo, and the Tuff Darts (w/Robert Gordon).
- DirectorJim JarmuschStarsChris ParkerLeila GastilJohn LurieA young man wanders New York City searching for some meaning in life and encounters many idiosyncratic characters.
- DirectorBeth BScott BStarsJames RussoLydia LunchWilliam RiceA film noirish atmosphere is created to show detective Lunch (a popular underground musician and poet) plow her way through the plans of a corporate businessman who seeks government defense contracts through real "corporate wars" and the manipulation of politicians.
- DirectorSusan SeidelmanStarsSusan BermanBrad RijnRichard HellA talent-challenged girl tries to promote herself to stardom in New York's waning punk music world.
- DirectorBradley ErosStarsMel BlancFound footage collage of images of destruction, violence and eroticism, set to an equally impressionistic collage of sound clips.
- DirectorJames NaresStarsDavid McDermottEric MitchellLydia LunchIn a mock Rome (shot in neo-classic buildings), characters dressed in makeshift costumes, live a Roman life, with political intrigue, flirting and dyonisiac dances.
- DirectorVivienne DickStarsVivienne DickPat PlaceBeate NilsenThis 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.
- DirectorRichard KernStarsWilliam RiceDavid WojnarowiczNick ZeddFour shorts from Richard Kern: Stray Dogs; Woman at Wheel; Thrust in me; and I Hate you now.
- DirectorEric MitchellStarsKai EricBoris MajorVincent GalloA group of actors in the East Village of New York City have been rehearsing for a play when the lead actress in the play turns up dead.
- DirectorCharlie AhearnStarsEve AhearnJane AhearnJoey AhearnA bird's eye view of the activity surrounding the corner of 43rd Street and 8th Avenue in New York City from 1981-1983, inter-cut with family life inside the apartment the street scenes are filmed from.