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CRAIG$19.95 USDCraig is a lonely, somewhat awkward, young man trying to recover from the loss of both his parents in a disastrous fire. Aside from his childhood friend, Cliff, he loses everyone he knows in one devastating blow. And Cliff, isn't much help; he has his own problems to deal with. DETAILS | ADD TO CART |
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GUNHEAVY$19.95 USDIn a world where guns are more prevalent than people, and everyone left alive is a soldier for one army or another, every day is a new battle to be fought. Proving that inside the digital film making revolution, very impressive special effects don't need massive budgets, writer, director, editor, Angelo Lopes, expertly crafts this post-apocalyptic tale of a dystopian world gone terribly wrong. DETAILS | ADD TO CART |
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EL ALAMBRISTA: THE FENCE JUMPER$19.95 USDA champion of the Mexican people by day, a wrestler by night, budding lucha libre fighter El Alambrista Emplumado comes to America. His face hidden behind a mask emblazoned with the colors of his homeland, Alambrista fights to defend the rights of migrant workers who have been forgotten by mainstream society. DETAILS | ADD TO CART |
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IDLEHEIST$21.95 USDThe story of four rookie crooks in a convenience store robbery gone bad. Set in a sleepy Northern Arizona mountain town, this campy, film noir never lets up, as we travel with a pack of collegiate armed robbers who think they have it all "under control". DETAILS | ADD TO CART |
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TV PARTY: THE SUBLIMELY INTOLERABLE SHOW$14.95 USDThe first 10% of this show sums up what we don't get on TV anymore. Technical difficulties. TV Party was live and improvised, and this meant casual disaster. DETAILS | ADD TO CART |
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TV PARTY: EVERYTHING FOR SALE SHOW$14.95 USDTV Party's final season was broadcast live in color on Channel J, a public access "commercial station." TV Party tried to pay the extra expense of going to color by selling ads to downtown clubs and underground record companies. "Everything here is for sale," Glenn announces. Desperation is in the air. DETAILS | ADD TO CART |
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BRAVE NEW YORK/ SWAY$19.95 USD"Brave New York," is a free-form documentary video that loosely chronicles the last 12 years of intense change in the East Village "hood." From the reopening of a newly curfewed Tompkins Square Park and Wigstock in '92, to the destruction of the cherished Loisaida Community Gardens, to the yuppie invasions of the dot com years, to the present era, indelibly stamped with post 9/11 grief, this durable, lusty neighborhood survives in spite of a real estate gold rush that has excluded all but the well-to-do. DETAILS | ADD TO CART |
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FUZZ$19.99 USDFuzz... the sound that changed the world. The fuzz box: that tiny little box between the electric guitar and the amp that revolutionized rock music...what on earth does it do? Clif Taylor explores this insane industry of noise making, a world populated by guitar slinging super heroes and garage dwelling electronic geeks all sharing the collective obsession of one day creating that perfect sonic wave of limitless distortion. DETAILS | ADD TO CART |
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DOIN' TIME IN TIMES SQUARE$19.99 USDDescribed as the home video from hell, Doin' Time in Times Square documents the view and action outside director Charlie Ahearn's 43rd Street apartment window from 1981 to 1983. Charlie Ahearn, whose 1983 film Wild Style was a cult hip hop hit, was "blessed" with a generous view of the sleeze emporiums up Eighth Avenue and down 43rd. His window provides a view into midtown New York's street brutality in those dark years before it was "cleaned up" and "Disneyfied", His Hi-8 camera captures rip-offs, drug sales, police stake-outs and fights - lots of fights. On any given day we see fist-fights, domestic squabbles and bad deals going down. It is both a social and personal document. DETAILS | ADD TO CART |
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THE DEADLY ART OF SURVIVAL$19.99 USDBefore writer-director Charlie Ahearn shot his seminal hip-hop film "Wild Style" in 1982, he was directly exposed to the bourgeoning hip-hop, break-dancing and graffiti movement while shooting his super-8 martial arts epic "No Wave" feature, shot in 1979 around the projects of the Lower East Side, stars Nathan Ingram, a true to life martial arts hero. In his movie incarnation, Nathan, unaware of a contract out on his head, is jumped and beaten bloody by a local street gang. Using his martial arts skills he sets out to get revenge and is pitted against a group of drug dealers operating from a rival karate school called the "Disco Dojo". The local handball courts were painted by graffiti legend Lee Quinones, who went on to star in "Wild Style". In fact, this film is the film that lead directly to the making of "Wild Style" and is a must see for anyone interested in the roots of hip-hop at the intersection of Lower East Side art world, in the late seventies. DETAILS | ADD TO CART |
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