Ed Bowes Movies
- 1969
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...
- 1983
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...
- 1987
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.
- 2024
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...
- 1977
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...
- 1981
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...
- 1978
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...
- 2018
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...
- 2012
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...
- 2013
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...
- 2009
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....
- 2011
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
- 1990
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...
- 1978
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...
- 1976
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...