MARIA BEATTY

 


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Maria Beatty - New York indie filmmaker, renowned for her exploration into the depths of female sexuality and fantasy, sets new standards in erotic cinema. Her unique vision is inspired by Expressionist German Cinema, French Surrealism, American Film Noir and underground sexually subversive gay filmmakers (Kenneth Anger and Jean Genet). Her movies are filmed in such a way that the sophisticated style (mainly in black and white) creates both an aesthetic and sexual ecstasy.
In 1989, she produced and directed her first film entitled "Gang of Souls" a documentary exploring the insights and influence of the Beat poets. Some of the artists featured in this film include- William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, Jim Carroll, Marianne Faithfull, Richard Hell, Lydia Lunch and Henry Rollins. Soon after, in 1991, she directed her second documentary entitled, "Sphinxes Without Secrets" that presents some of the most engaging work produced by women performance artists: Diamanda Galas, Carolee Schneemann, Holly Hughes, Annie Sprinkle and others.
From 1992 on, she became renowned for her exploration into the depths of female sexuality and fantasy, setting new standards in erotic cinema. Her unique vision is inspired by Expressionist German Cinema, French Surrealism, American Film Noir and underground sexually subversive gay filmmakers (Kenneth Anger and Jean Genet).Her films have been presented internationally

 


Canal + "La Nuit Gay" (France)
ARTE "Soiree Thema" "INSPIRED" premiered May 28th 2004 (France/Germany)
Channel 13 (NY)
The Whitney Museum (NY)
Museum of Modern Art (NY)
The International Center of Photography (NY)
The New Museum (NY)
Lux Cinema (UK)
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (CA)
Centre Audiovisuel Simone de Beauvoir (France)
And various other museums, galleries and international film festivals (see pages below).
She also received grants from the New York State Council for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and Art Matters.

Some of her titles include:
- ECSTASY in Berlin, 1926
- The Seven Deadly Sins
- LUST - Seven Deadly Sins
- Ladies of the Night
- The Black Glove
- The Elegant Spanking
- Let the Punishment Fit the Child
- Sphinxes Without Secrets
- Sluts and Goddesses (with Annie Sprinkle)
- Imaging Her Erotics (with Carolee Schneemann)
- Gang of Souls

FILM/VIDEO FESTIVALS
The Barcelona Erotic Film Festival (Spain)
The Fetish Film Festival (Paris, France)
San Francisco Lesbian and Gay Film Festival (CA)
Rotterdam Film Festival (Netherlands)
Chicago Lesbian and Gay Film Festival (IL)
Baltimore Lesbian and Gay Film Festival (MD)
Brazilian Lesbian and Gay Film Festival (Sao Paolo)
Los Angeles Lesbian and Gay Film Festival (CA)
Melbourne Queer Film and Video Festival (Australia)
Forum de las Artes (Spain)
Festival Quand les Lesbiennes Se font du Cinema (Paris)
Festival Internazionale di Films con Tematiche Omosessuali (Italy)
London International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival (England)
Chicago Underground Film Festival (IL)
International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival (Italy)
Queer Articulations: Princeton Film and Video Festival
New York Lesbian and Gay Experimental Film/Video Festival (NY)
Montreal Lesbian and Gay Film Festival (Canada)
The New York Underground Film Festival (NY)
Out on Screen Festival - Vancouver Lesbian and Gay Film Festival (Canada)
Dangerous to Know London (England)
Medien Operative Berlin Video Fest (Germany)
The Swedish Gay and Lesbian Video Festival
International Video Week (Switzerland)
Stockholm Gay Film Festival (Sweden)
The Berlin Video Festival (Germany)
Av-ark/Muu Media Festival (Finland)
Monitor (‘94) - (Sweden)
Monitor (‘93) - The Second Coming of the Cryptics (Sweden)
San Sebastian Film Festival (Spain)
Third Wave International Women’s Film and Video Festival (Austin, TX)
Champaign Gay and Lesbian Film/Video Festival (IL)
Lesbian and Gay Film/Video Festival of Toronto (Canada)
Boston Gay and Lesbian Film Festival (MA)
Montreal International Festival of New Cinema and Video (Canada)
Australian International Video Festival
Pittsburg International Gay and Lesbian Film/Video Festival (PA)
World Wide Video Festival (Amsterdam)
Le Festival du Centre Audiovisual Simone de Beauvoir (Canada)
The Winnipeg Gay and Lesbian Film/Video Festival (Canada)
The New England Lesbian and Gay Film and Video Festival
Subversive Film and Video, Copenhagen Film and Video Festival
Festival De Films et Video De Femmes (Montreal, Canada)
The Lille Lesbian and Gay Film Festival (France)
Carre Blanc sur Fond Blanc, Bruxelles (Belgium)
Outrage, Lesbian and Gay Film Festival (Buffalo, NY)
Nova Scotia Lesbian and Gay Film/Video Festival (Canada)
Stichting Film Festival Rotterdam (Netherlands)
Amsterdam Lesbian and Gay Film Festival (Holland)
Chicago International Film Festival (IL)
Dallas Video Festival (TX)
Athens International Film and Video Festival (OH)
Louisville Film and Video Festival (KY)
Sacramento International Film and Video Festival (CA)
Houston International Film Festival (TX)
The Berlin Video Festival (Germany)
American Independents in Berlin (Germany)
Copenhagen Film and Video Festival (Denmark)
USA Film Festival (Texas)
Montbeliard International Film Festival (France)
Odenses Festival (Denmark)SCREENINGS
Girls, Girls, Girls (CAN, Centre d'art Neuchatel, Switzerland)
Other Cinema, A.T.A. Gallery (CA)
Roxy Cinema (SF, CA)
Harvard Film Archives (MA)
Revealing Desire, Cristinerose Gallery (NY)
Natalie Karg/Josh Baer Gallery (NY)
Pacific Cinemateque (Vancouver, B.C.)
Sexual Visionaries, London Electronic Arts (England)
Cinematheque (CA)
The Wet Spot, Anthology Film Archives (NY)
The Black and Blue Ball (NY)
Zeitgeist Theatre Experiments (New Orleans, LA)
Bad Girls, The New Museum (NY)
Sex, Truth and Videotapes, University of Maryland (MD)
Lesbian Genders, Whitney Museum of American Art (NY)
Videopositive, Liverpool (England)
Abject Art: Repulsion and Desire in American Art, The Whitney Museum (NY)
Flesh, Fetish, Fragment: A Romance, Film in the Cities (St. Paul, MN)
More Pricks Than Kicks (Zurich, Switzerland)
National Film Theater (London, England)
Conspiracies, Millenium (NY)
Trancesex: A State of Mystical Absorption, AMO Contemporary Art (CA)
Lesbian Herstory Archive (NY)
Identify First Person Singular, Plug In (Manitoba, Canada)
Women’s Perspectives: On Both Sides of the Lens, Museum of Fine Arts (MA)
Coming to Power: 25 Years of X-plicit Sexual Art by Women, David Zwirner Gallery(NY)
The Portable Museum (Barcelona, Spain)
Kuntwerk (Vienna, Austria)
National Film Board (Newfoundland, Canada)
Festa d’inauguracio, Galeria Carles Poy (Barcelona, Spain)
Verein fur Visuelle Kommunikation e.v. Gallerie (Hannover, Germany)
The XXX-Rated Show, Rita Dean Gallery (San Francisco, CA)
The Todd Kaplan Gallery (LA, CA)
La Nuit Gay Lesborama
Erotiques, A.B. Galeries (Paris, France)
Sex Positive, CEC Feminist Film/Video Series (Philadelphia, PA)
The Kitchen (NY)
The Knitting Factory (NY)
Kvinnoseminar, Statens Kunstakademi (Osla, Norway)
The Body, Kunstlerhaus Stuttgart (Germany)
National Film Theater (London, England)
C.A.G.E. Gallery (Cincinnati, Ohio)
Hogeschool voor de kunsten Arnhem (Netherlands)
Arsenal Cinema (Berlin, Germany)
Elozoit-Kino (Berlin, Germany)
Pullit X (London, England)
Freie Universitat Berlin, Lesbian Week (Germany)
The Beauty Case, Lokaal 01 (Netherlands)
L.A.C.E. (Los Angeles Contemporary Art Exhibitions) (CA)
Film and Kamera Experimente (Dusseldorf, Germany)
Melkweg (Amsterdam, Holland)
National Sexuality Symposium (LA, CCA)
Highways Performance Space (CA)
P.S. 122 (NY)
The Lesbian and Gay Community Center (NY)
The Banff Center (Canada)
The Pleasure Dome (Toronto, Canada)
Every Conceivable Position: Inside Gay Porn, Cornell University (Ithaca, NY)
Utopian Art: Artificial Utopia Kunst Werk (Australia)
Metro Cinema Society, Edmonton, Alberta (Canada)
University Art Museum, Berkley (CA)
Violent Women, University of Southern California (CA)
Video Viewpoints, Museum of Modern Art (NY)
Art and the Forbidden: Images of Female Aggression, SF University (CA)
Outspoken Women, Intermedia Arts Gallery (Minneapolis, MN)
The Collective for Living Cinema (NY)
Eye Gallery (SF, CA)
Beat Culture and the New America, Whitney Museum of American Art (NY)
The Concerned Video: Selections of Recent Documentary Video, ICP (NY)


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