BETH B producer/director/artist
Photo & Sculpture exhbition
Iconic No Wave Filmmaker Beth B Announces
HARDCORE FROM THE HEART
Film Presentation at mk2 Bibliothèque, Paris - Nov 9, 19:00
developed with
Nicolas Ballet (Centre Pompidou) and
Devrim Bayar (Kanal-Centre Pompidou)
and her new feature film
GLOWING
Play trailer
GL0WING a feature film directed by Beth premiered at the Roxy Cinema NYC in 2026. Eight fearless artists step into the frame — their voices raw, their stories electric. As poets, musicians, and performers reveal deeply personal truths, their stories collide and intertwine, forming a powerful, living dialogue with the audience. What unfolds is not simply storytelling, but an invitation: to feel, to witness, to connect.
Featuring an extraordinary ensemble including Rose Wood, Nick Flynn, Little Annie, No Anger, Joseph Keckler, Robert O. Leaver, Rose Tang, Evelyn Frantti with music composed by Jim Coleman.
PRESS QUOTES
“Explosive creativity” - Caitlin Lent, Interview Magazine
Transcendent and inspiring film”
- Mary Harron, Film Director (American Psycho)
“If confrontation is the epistemology of punk...Beth B’s art has never run out of breath”
- Fionn Adamian, Berlin Art Link
“…visually and sonically overwhelming”
- Brandon Streussning, - In Review Online
“A cathartic yet ethereal rallying cry”
- Payton McCarty-Simas - Film Inquiry
“‘A dizzying deep dive"
- Rachel Pronger, Spike Art Magazine
“‘GLOWING’ radiates glimmers of hope, of liberation and change. Engaging with it is a gift of life.” - Andreas Dohler, Film Critic
The Pioneering Work of the Legendary Artist and Filmmaker, BETH B, celebrated by The Museum of Modern Art. Beth B is a 2022 Guggenheim Fellowship recipient. Her archives have been purchased by NYU Fales Library. MoMA website
LYDIA LUNCH: THE WAR IS NEVER OVER by Beth B is the first career-spanning documentary retrospective of Lydia Lunch’s confrontational, acerbic, and always electric artistry. As New York City’s preeminent No Wave icon from the late ’70s, Lunch has forged a lifetime of music and spoken word performance devoted to the utter right of any woman to indulge, seek pleasure, and to raise voice in a rage as loud as any man. The film frames Lunch’s work through the lens of the various philosophical themes that have obsessed her for years.
Beth B’s Voyeur, an installation of video, photography and sculpture, explores the varied perceptions of the female and male gaze. The exhibition enlists the viewer's implicit participation with transgressive imagery and invites each person to examine their own boundaries and preconceptions regarding sexuality and gender. A new Beth B publication, NUDES, is available.
CALL HER APPLEBROOG is a poignant and intimate portrait of the renowned artist, Ida Applebroog, who grew up in an Orthodox Jewish household with an immigrant father who only wanted to have sons; instead, there were three girls. The film reveals Applebroog’s groundbreaking artwork that has been a sustained enquiry into the polemics of human relations, but more intimately, it is about her dramatic struggle to overcome adversity. Her story is one that Beth knows well—Ida is her mother.
EXPOSED profiles eight female and male artists who use their nakedness to transport us beyond the last sexual and social taboos.
These cutting edge performers -- operating on the far edge of burlesque – combine politics, satire, and physical comedy to question the very concept of "normal." Through them, we get to examine our own inhibitions. The film creates a unique perspective, taking the audience into the clubs and other hidden spaces where these artists perform.