Director: Trent Harris

Starring: “Groovin’ Gary,” Sean Penn, Crispin Glover, Elizabeth Daily

Year: 2000

Runtime: 83 mins.

Synopsis: Beaver Trilogy is a series of three pieces about the same subject, a young man from a small town called Beaver who is obsessed with Olivia Newton John. The first piece, The Beaver Kid, is a documentary. The second piece, Beaver Kid 2, was shot with a home video camera. Beaver Kid 2 which stars Sean Penn is a dramatic work based on the documentary. The third piece, The Orkly Kid, is yet another dramatic work based on the documentary, this time starring yet another actor. (from Harris’ website)

DVD: No

Official Website: Trent Harris website

Reviews: Bad Lit (Mike Everleth)
Variety (Dennis Harvey)
All Movie Guide (Jason Buchanan)
DVD Holocaust (The Naked Kiss)

Film Festivals: New York Video Festival (2000)

Video: Groovin’ Gary – New York City Rhythm

Birth: 1952

Official Website: Trent Harris Films

Major Works: Delightful Water Universe (2008)
The Beaver Trilogy (2000)
Plan 10 From Outer Space (1994)
Rubin and Ed (1991)

Notes: Works in Salt Lake City, UT.

Wrote two books: The Wild Goose Chronicles and Mondo Utah.

Other Resources: IMDB: Profile
Wikipedia: Bio and Profile
indieWire: Interview

Video: Bill Allred Delightful Water Universe on KUTV

Director: Robin Franzi

Starring: Not Applicable

Year: 2007

Runtime: 54 mins.

Synopsis: This film is a memorably vivid and unflinching exploration of this widely practiced and yet little known genre of alternative sexuality. The individuals portrayed convey how BDSM is practiced in a consensual manner.

DVD: Susan for Now

Official Website: None

Reviews: Bad Lit (Mike Everleth)
Prost Amerika (unknown)

Film Festivals: Seattle True Independent Film Festival, Seattle, WA (2007)
Brooklyn International Film Festival, Brooklyn, NY (2007)
Melbourne Underground Film Festival, Melbourne, Australia (2007)
Seattle Sex Positive Community Center, Seattle, WA (2007)
Portland International Film Festival – public review with Warren Etheredge, Portland, OR (2007)
Cinekink Film Festival, New York City, NY, San Francisco, CA (2008)
Golden Gate Fiction & Documentary Film Festival, San Francisco, CA (2008)
New Filmmakers, Los Angeles (2008)
Fetisch Film Festival, Kiel, Germany (2008)

Video: Trailer

Birth: Unknown

Official Website: None

Major Works: Susan for Now (2007)

Notes: Works in the field of corporate finance.

Is a member of Seattle’s Sex Positive Community Center.

Other Resources: IMDB: Profile

Video: None

Director: Bruce Bailie

Starring: Not Applicable

Year: 1971

Runtime: 56 mins.

Synopsis: The experience of transformation between life and death, death and birth, or rebirth in four reels. (from Canyon Cinema)

DVD: None

Official Website: None

Reviews: None

Video: None

Birth: September 24, 1931 (Aberdeen, South Dakota)

Official Website: BruceBaillie.net

Major Works: The P-38 Pilot (1990)
Dr. Bish Remedies (1987)
The Cardinal’s Visit (1980)
Roslyn Romance (1977)
Quick Billy (1971)
Valentin de las Sierras (1971)
All My Life (1966)
Castro Street (1966)
Port Chicago Vigil (1966)
Show Leader (1966)
Still Life (1966)
Termination (1966)
Tung (1966)
Quixote (1965)
Yellow Horse (1965)
The Brookfield Recreation Center (1964)
Mass for the Dakota Sioux (1964)
A Hurrah for Soldiers (1963)
To Parsifal (1963)
Everyman (1962)
Friend Fleeing (1962)
Have You Thought of Talking to the Director (1962)
Here I Am (1962)
The News No. 3 (1962)
David Lynn’s Sculpture (1961)
The Gymnasts (1961)
Mr. Hayashi (1961)
On Sundays (1961)

Notes: One of the founders of Canyon Cinema, the film distributing co-op.

Other Resources: IMDB: Profile
Film Reference: Profile
All Movie Guide: Bio
Canyon Cinema: Films

Video: Screening Room with Bruce Baillie (1973) – PREVIEW

Director: Richard Kern

Starring: Lydia Lunch, Marty Nation, Lung Leg, Emilio Cubeiro, Jet, Pete Haskel

Year: 1986

Runtime: 25 mins.

Synopsis: A phone sex operator befriends a sleazeball and the two spend a torrid afternoon of talking dirty, wild sex and abusing a hitchhiker.

DVD: The Hardcore Collection (compilation)

Official Website: None

Reviews: eFilmCritic (Charles Tatum)

Video: None

Birth: 1954 (Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina)

Official Website: RichardKern.com

Major Works: My Nightmare (1993)
The Bitches (1992)
Sewing Circle (1992)
Horoscope (1991)
Nazi (1991)
Tumble (1991)
The Evil Cameraman (1990)
Money Love (1990)
Pierce (1990)
X Is Y (1990)
Submit to Me Now (1987)
Death Valley 69 (1986)
Fingered (1986)
Goodbye 42nd Street (1986)
King of Sex (1986)
I Hate You Now (1985)
The Right Side of My Brain (1985)
Stray Dogs (1985)
Submit to Me (1985)
Thrust in Me (1985)
Woman at the Wheel (1985)
You Killed Me First (1985)

Notes: Was a member of the Cinema of Transgression movement in NYC in the early ’80s and collaborated on Thrust in Me with Nick Zedd.

Published several issues of the zine The Heroin Addict, which was later renamed The Valium Addict.

Has directed several music videos for Sonic Youth, King Missile and Marilyn Manson.

Other Resources: IMDB: Profile
Wikipedia: Bio and info

Video: None

Director: Maya Deren

Starring: Maya Deren, Alexander Hammid, John Cage, Parker Tyler

Year: 1944

Runtime: 15 mins.

Synopsis: At Land is another of Maya Deren’s dream like films. The message which it transmits to and its main subject rests on the idea of the mutability of a personality. Maya said once that this film was made to show people the struggle to maintain the personal identity. The whole film has only 15 minutes, in which a whole life is subjectively described. (from Film-Makers’ Cooperative.)

DVD: Maya Deren: Experimental Films (compilation)

Official Website: None

Reviews: Ferdy on Films (Marilyn Ferdinand)

Video: None

Director: James Fotopoulos

Starring: Debbie Mulcahy, Martin Shannon, Ernie E. Frantz, Michael Wexler

Year: 2000

Runtime: 94 mins.

Synopsis: In this “Lynch-like vision of the rotting underbelly of Middle America” (Stephen Holden, The New York Times), the downfall of a lingerie model is portrayed against the depressing, menacing milieus of the men she caters to, including an angry, jealous, middle-aged failure and his strange, no-necked friend. James Fotopoulos presents this dark, sinister story as a three-part feature in the unnerving, highly original style that has made him a major figure of the underground cinema. (from Facets)

DVD: Facets Multi Media

Official Website: None

Reviews: Bad Lit (Mike Everleth)
Village Voice (J. Hoberman)
Variety (Scott Foundas)

Video: None