A film exploring the nature of sex and gender roles. Nymph, a fairy, walks and dances through a woodland before being pursued by Pan, an evil spirit.

Playboy is made from bits of vintage porno films, boxing films, westerns, and adventure and horror films.

1983 short by Tessa Hughes-Freeland

Documenting graffiti culture around East Village in 1983

A surrealistic narrative is created which collapses different realities into one, by means of both similarities and juxtapositions. There is a...

Inspired by and loosely based on the introduction to Blue Of Noon by Georges Bataille, the title was taken from the name of the main character. It...

Tessa Hughes-Freeland’s “Baby Doll” is a tiny slice of cinéma vérité from 1982 about the girls working the now defunct Baby Doll Lounge on Church...

short music-driven video by Tess Hughes-Freeland

This film was made for an exhibition entitled "My Icon" Jumping off the springboard of the popular religious iconography of mother and child, as a...

Watch Out! is a lighthearted poetic comment which addresses concepts of male voyeurism. Exploring clichés to the point of saturation, these...

A no-holds-barred portrait of addiction, RAT TRAP is an unflinching portrayal of a junkie injecting heroin cut with footage of (already expired)...

This film was made for an exhibition entitled "Ghosts of the Catskills". The history of the Catskills had made an impression on me was that of the...

Originally one side of a live multiple projection, INSTINCT mixes irrationally convergent imagery. An iconography of the intangible and intuitive...

Inspired by a dream, it is a reflection on the sentiment of loss. Working with film material directly, by combining handmade film, slides made from...

A document of a performance by the Butthole Surfers in the 1980s

Filmic evidence of the infamous 1985 Richmond, Virginia exhibition that featured downtown artists Wojnarowicz, Marilyn Minter, Luis Frangella, and...

Document of the experimental Butoh group Poppo

Rhonda Goes to Hollywood functions in a similar fashion, exploring the very existence of Hollywood's stars as merely social constructions. The...