Beth B: War Is Never Over

Overview of films

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  Talk: Beth B & Lydia Lunch

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  Accompanied by Lydia Lunch, Beth B elucidates her selection of films that tie in with the ideas behind her recent work.
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  Do What They Told You

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  These films deal with notions of objectification, submission and enforced roles through the contextual lens of beauty, domesticity and sexuality.
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  Shut Up and Suffer

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  Through a close examination of the taboos, fears and degradation inflicted upon our bodies, these violent, raging films cry out the need for reinvention.
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  Amnesia

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  Beth B | 1' | USA | None

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

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  Tina L’Hotsky | 10' | USA | None

  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.
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  Belladonna

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  Beth B | 13' | USA | None

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

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  Beth B, Scott B | 21' | USA | None

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

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  Lizzie Borden | 79' | USA | None

  When a black female militant is mysteriously killed, a coalition of women – across all lines of race, class and sexual preference – emerge
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  Bread

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  Ida May Park | 16' | USA | None

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

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  Beth B | 5' | USA | None

  Hairspray, skin and eyeliner on full display as a gang of leather-clad, powerful women take over a traditionally male domain.
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  Don’t Light My Fire (Otoboke Beaver Music Video)

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  ONIONSKIN | 3' | Japan | None

  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
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  Exposed

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  Beth B | 78' | USA | None

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