Reza Abdoh Movies

  • 1989
    Minamata

    Minamata

    Minamata

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    "Minamata is the name of a fishing village in Japan," said the writer-director ("Peep Show," "Eva Peron," "Rusty Sat on a Hill One Dawn and Watched...

    Minamata
  • 1996
    The Hip-Hop Waltz of Eurydice

    The Hip-Hop Waltz of Eurydice

    The Hip-Hop Waltz of Eurydice

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    The world premiere in 1990 of an avant-garde, queer retelling of the myth of Orpheus (Tommy) and Eurydice (Dora Lee), focusing on an antagonistic...

    The Hip-Hop Waltz of Eurydice
  • 1993
    Quotations From a Ruined City

    Quotations From a Ruined City

    Quotations From a Ruined City

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    Quotations From a Ruined City was first performed as a workshop production for the Los Angeles Festival in a former shoe store on Hollywood...

    Quotations From a Ruined City
  • 2015
    Reza Abdoh: Theater Visionary

    Reza Abdoh: Theater Visionary

    Reza Abdoh: Theater Visionary

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    The impact of wunderkind theatre director Reza Abdoh's explosive work is finally brought to light twenty years after his death of AIDS, with live...

    Reza Abdoh: Theater Visionary
  • 1991
    The Weeping Song

    The Weeping Song

    The Weeping Song

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    Short film by Reza Abdoh.

    The Weeping Song
  • 1992
    The Law of Remains

    The Law of Remains

    The Law of Remains

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    "The Law of Remains" is a blood-soaked pageant of contemporary Grand Guignol depicting mass murder, sexual mutilation, necrophilia and cannibalism...

    The Law of Remains
  • 1990
    Sleeping with the Devil

    Sleeping with the Devil

    Sleeping with the Devil

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    An avant-garde video film short in which actors in various languages, states of dress and undress, standing or lying prone, pontificate about Geraldo...

    Sleeping with the Devil
  • 1992
    The Blind Owl

    The Blind Owl

    The Blind Owl

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    Ricky is a young man who takes care of his sick mother. His father hovers at the edge of the picture, so Ricky provides for himself and his mom...

    The Blind Owl
  • 1990
    Father was a Peculiar Man

    Father was a Peculiar Man

    Father was a Peculiar Man

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    Join us for a screening of Reza Abdoh’s extraordinary, site-specific work Father was a Peculiar Man, an adaptation of Dostoyevsky’s The...

    Father was a Peculiar Man
  • 1993
    Tight Right White

    Tight Right White

    Tight Right White

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    Staged in a loft on Lafayette Street, across from the Public Theatre, the piece used the film adaptation of Kyle Onstott’s 1957 novel,...

    Tight Right White
  • 1970
    The Hip-Hop Waltz of Eurydice

    The Hip-Hop Waltz of Eurydice

    The Hip-Hop Waltz of Eurydice

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    This video was created and projected during the performance of The Hip-Hop Waltz of Eurydice (1990). "The use of the rear-screen video in Hip-Hop...

    The Hip-Hop Waltz of Eurydice
  • 1991
    Bogeyman

    Bogeyman

    Bogeyman

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    A raucous, angry exorcism of relationships and assorted fears, shadowed by the Big One: the plague of AIDS.

    Bogeyman
  • 1991
    Daddy's Girl

    Daddy's Girl

    Daddy's Girl

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    A collagistic nightmare vision of psycho-sexual abuse.

    Daddy's Girl