Ron Vawter Movies

  • 1993
    White Homeland Commando

    White Homeland Commando

    White Homeland Commando

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    White Homeland Commando takes the familiar terrain of network action drama and tilts the playing field. Reminiscent of today's popular reality-based...

    White Homeland Commando
  • 1992
    Mastergate

    Mastergate

    Mastergate

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    A "play on words" about a fictional political scandal concerning covert arms deals and double-dealing government operatives, satirizing the Watergate...

    Mastergate
  • 1990
    Made in Hollywood

    Made in Hollywood

    Made in Hollywood

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    Steeped in irony, Made in Hollywood depicts the personal and cultural mediation of reality and fantasy, desire and identity, by the myths of...

    Made in Hollywood
  • 1970
    Minus Zero

    Minus Zero

    Minus Zero

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    A psycho noir where stalkers, terrorists and government agents collide.

    Minus Zero
  • 1994
    The Last Time I Saw Ron

    The Last Time I Saw Ron

    The Last Time I Saw Ron

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    Made in memory of the actor and my friend, Ron Vawter. Ron passed away shortly after the opening performances of the play "Philoktetes Variations,"...

    The Last Time I Saw Ron
  • 1995
    Roy Cohn/Jack Smith

    Roy Cohn/Jack Smith

    Roy Cohn/Jack Smith

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    When Jill Godmilow’s documentary Roy Cohn/Jack Smith premiered at the 1994 Toronto International Film Festival, the number of AIDS-related...

    Roy Cohn/Jack Smith
  • 1989
    Volcano Saga

    Volcano Saga

    Volcano Saga

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    This short film shot in Iceland and New York, which is based on a thirteenth-century Icelandic Laxdeala Saga, features Tilda Swinton as a young woman...

    Volcano Saga
  • 1984
    Atalanta Strategy

    Atalanta Strategy

    Atalanta Strategy

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    The story of Willard from Ashley's opera Atalanta, recounted in 3 parts.

    Atalanta Strategy
  • 1977
    Sudden Death

    Sudden Death

    Sudden Death

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    When Ed Neilson's entire family is viciously murdered, he pleads with retired CIA operative Duke Smith (Robert Conrad) to investigate. He refuses,...

    Sudden Death
  • 1980
    Empty Suitcases

    Empty Suitcases

    Empty Suitcases

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    Bette Gordon describes her first feature film as “a narrative derived from film’s own material and my concern for exploring issues of...

    Empty Suitcases
  • 1990
    The Machine That Killed Bad People

    The Machine That Killed Bad People

    The Machine That Killed Bad People

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    The Machine That Killed Bad People is about the cultural and political history of the Philippines leading up to the overthrow of President Ferdinand...

    The Machine That Killed Bad People
  • 1989
    Used Innocence

    Used Innocence

    Used Innocence

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    Using experimental narrative structure as his vehicle, Benning recreates the sensationalized and controversial circumstances surrounding Lorencia...

    Used Innocence
  • 1990
    Postcards

    Postcards

    Postcards

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    A separated couple try to keep in touch through postcards of typically "American" sights: motels, monuments, parks; but their postcards cross in the...

    Postcards
  • 1992
    Roy Cohn/Jack Smith (Live Stage Recording)

    Roy Cohn/Jack Smith (Live Stage Recording)

    Roy Cohn/Jack Smith (Live Stage Recording)

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    Recorded during the initial run of the Obie Award-winning ROY COHN/JACK SMITH, this video documents the seminal performance piece as it was first...

    Roy Cohn/Jack Smith (Live Stage Recording)
  • 2014
    Rumstick Road

    Rumstick Road

    Rumstick Road

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    A video reconstruction of the 1977 Wooster Group production Rumstick Road, an experimental theater performance created by Spalding Gray and Elizabeth...

    Rumstick Road