Beth B: War Is Never Over

A chilling cautionary tale, Amnesia is a stark and uncompromising portrayal of the escalation of xenophobic sentiment in a neo-conservative climate.

Barbie returns from shopping. She takes her groceries out of the bag and takes out a little Barbie doll which she then fries and eats.

A number of somber talking heads frankly describe their most personal and perverse attitudes on sex, violence and other family matters.

An innocent youth is abducted and tortured without any culpability. This seminal No Wave film is a terrifying allegory of societal repression.

When a black female militant is mysteriously killed, a coalition of women – across all lines of race, class and sexual preference – emerges to sabotage the System.

Bread hones in on the symbolic role of food, specifically in the way that it highlights gendered imbalances of power in the entertainment industry.

Hairspray, skin and eyeliner on full display as a gang of leather-clad, powerful women take over a traditionally male domain.

Japanese punk rock group Otoboke Beaver is a female quartet from Japan. This video illustrates a song that stems from their recent album, Itekoma Hits.

Cutting-edge performers are taking hold of a dismissed art form, burlesque, and driving it to extremes that most people have never seen.

An exploration of the political and psychological contradictions of Valerie Solanas, the woman who shot Andy Warhol.

In a vast underground cave, Schneemann and seven nude women read a text as each woman slowly extracts a scroll from her vagina.

A young widow who lives with her teenage son fills her empty life with an endless checklist of chores. Until something snaps.

Beth B shot this documentary about her peer and fellow underground icon Lydia Lunch, who is still passionately fighting patriarchy.

Controversial singer, actress, writer and poet Lydia Lunch never fails to stir up emotions with her spoken word set.

Women act out their own dramas in a red-filtered ritual of mutual bonding. A wry comedy on the ironic aspects of menstruation.

An experimental video collage that examines gender-stereotyping in popular culture, concluding with a post-modern version of the Pandora myth.

An experimental film spliced together from the detritus of early 1980s Times Square porn and pawn shops. Gritty, sensorial and hypnotic.

A young Chantal Akerman goes berserk in her kitchen and, while singing, trashes it. A burlesque pamphlet against household chores with May 68 undertones.

A woman stands in a kitchen surrounded by gadgets, picking up each of them and naming them alphabetically with precise, controlled, angry movements.

Performance artist Kembra Pfahler invited a camera to witness one of her most radical and angry gestures: sewing her vagina shut.

A short film revelling in themes of violence, sexual deviancy, delinquency, organised crime, cults terrorists, spies, torture, abuse and power.

A woman searches for the murderer of her sister. Shot in black-and-white, this cult No Wave film emulates the film noir genre.

This playful feminist murder mystery, a rewrite of Pucini’s La Bohème, has become a classic in feminist film theory.

A cop accuses a young strip-club hostess of killing her own children − a powerful exercise in female humiliation.

A young woman working as a ticket-taker at a Times Square porn theater is increasingly obsessed with a patron and becomes his stalker.

The haunting story of a young woman who escapes from a mental hospital during the chaos of a nearby multiple-car accident.