Salvation! + Goodbye 42nd Street

+ pre-recorded intro by Beth B

Two works from the Cinema of Transgression movement highlight the hypocrisy and changes that flow through 1980s America society.

Salvation!

  • Director

    Beth B

  • With

    Stephen McHattie, Exene Cervenka, Viggo Mortensen

  • USA 1987. 80min

  • Digital (restoration)

 

+ Goodbye 42nd Street

  • Director

    Richard Kern

  • USA 1983. 4min

  • Digital

Beth B followed her punk, Cinema of Transgression early works with Salvation!, a darky comedic attack on the hypocrisy of Christian televangelism and the intertwining machinations of big business and the mass media. It features music from Cabaret Voltaire and Arthur Russell. In Goodbye 42nd Street, Kern provides drive-by, sociological analysis of New York’s then dying grindhouse cinema centre.