Ed Bowes Movies

  • 1969
    Alice's Restaurant

    Alice's Restaurant

    Alice's Restaurant

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    After getting kicked out of college, Arlo decides to visit his friend Alice for Thanksgiving dinner. After dinner is over, Arlo volunteers to take...

    Alice's Restaurant
  • 1987
    Working Girls

    Working Girls

    Working Girls

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    A lesbian college graduate, trying to bankroll her own photography business, works as a high-priced New York City escort.

    Working Girls
  • 1983
    Born in Flames

    Born in Flames

    Born in Flames

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    In near-future New York, ten years after the “social-democratic war of liberation,” diverse groups of women organize a feminist uprising...

    Born in Flames
  • 2024
    A Punch in the Gut of a Star

    A Punch in the Gut of a Star

    A Punch in the Gut of a Star

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    Ed Bowes’s most recent project, A PUNCH IN THE GUT OF A STAR, was filmed in 2020 during the pandemic. Set in Colorado and based on a text by...

    A Punch in the Gut of a Star
  • 1978
    The Set-Up

    The Set-Up

    The Set-Up

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    The Set-Up is Kathryn Bigelow's student film at Columbia about the exploration of 'why violence in cinematic form is so seductive'. It featured two...

    The Set-Up
  • 1977
    The Red Tapes

    The Red Tapes

    The Red Tapes

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    A three-part video epic in which avant-garde artist Vito Acconci explores the relationship between the self and national mythology. Through multiple...

    The Red Tapes
  • 1981
    How to Fly

    How to Fly

    How to Fly

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    With HOW TO FLY, Bowes abandoned plot entirely, finding other forms of structure. He wanted to show that stories do not have to obsessively organize...

    How to Fly
  • 2018
    Seahorse Powder Room

    Seahorse Powder Room

    Seahorse Powder Room

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    SEAHORSE POWDER ROOM spends personal time with two adults and two children; variously writers, thinkers, and musicians, presenting in a weave of...

    Seahorse Powder Room
  • 1976
    Romance

    Romance

    Romance

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    The plot revolves around Tom (Ed Bowes) and his girlfriend Kathleen (Elizabeth Cannon) and what occurs when her mother and androgynous brother Tommy...

    Romance
  • 2009
    Entanglement

    Entanglement

    Entanglement

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    Digital technologies are supposed to distance us from our material surroundings, but in Ed Bowes’s hands, they accentuate the physical world....

    Entanglement
  • 2011
    Akilah Oliver: Three Readings

    Akilah Oliver: Three Readings

    Akilah Oliver: Three Readings

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    A portrait of the African American poet through her powerful and moving work. Akilah passed away in February of 2011. — Anthology Film Archives

    Akilah Oliver: Three Readings
  • 2013
    Grisaille

    Grisaille

    Grisaille

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    In GRISAILLE (which is a painterly and stained glass term referring to the use of ‘gris’: gray) we encounter five figures – all...

    Grisaille
  • 1990
    Spitting Glass

    Spitting Glass

    Spitting Glass

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    An adult tale of psychological disintegration presented from the point of view of a single, professional woman living in New York, SPITTING GLASS is...

    Spitting Glass
  • 1978
    Better, Stronger

    Better, Stronger

    Better, Stronger

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    BETTER, STRONGER stands in contrast to the lilting pace of ROMANCE. It begins with an intense monologue by its main character, Lana (Karen...

    Better, Stronger
  • 2012
    The Value of Small Skeletons

    The Value of Small Skeletons

    The Value of Small Skeletons

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    Co-written with poet Anne Waldman, THE VALUE OF SMALL SKELETONS describes the world, relationships, and interior imagination of a character named...

    The Value of Small Skeletons