Bobby Abate Movies

Caldwell's pulp storytelling, proto-feminist stance and unabashed social dramatization of his characters are a distinct vision of the condition of...

A solid state cyborg tale on the set of a 1960's evening newscast. A mysterious unearthly being has claimed a test subject and is making use of the...

Prophecies of doom, disaster and political catastrophe envisioned by some of the world’s most famous psychics between the 1960’s the year...

A séance is performed by three cloned versions of the filmmaker in order to make a connection to another plane.  The rules of the...

A dysfunctional family deals with mortality, life and sexuality as they watch a soap opera.

Crafted from softly pixilated QuickTime, NetMeeting sessions, emotive vintage pop, airplane disaster footage, online porn, streaming Hollywood...

A series of vignettes, inspired by vintage 8mm home movies from the 1960's, that show a woman isolated and waiting inside of a nostalgic beachside...

 Rebecca gazes into the crystal ball. It is afternoon in a Brooklyn neighborhood of industrial buildings. Rebecca has a way with words just as...

I consider this video to be a rough journal entry of what I experienced directly after the attacks on September 11th 2001. I felt like my concept of...

Abate’s 16mm films The Tanti Man, The Zero Order and Chisholm invoke Kenneth Anger-esque horny montage fantasies of personal psychodrama and...

ONCE UPON A TIME, a jealous little elf named Yool felt neglected, lonely, and positively enraged. It was Christmas Eve and he knew Santa was away...

An analog recreation and reclamation of the January 22, 1987 news conference in which Pennsylvania's State Treasurer Budd Dwyer grasped onto the...

SECRETS AND LIES become an aggressive virus when injected into the binary code of several video clips -- degrading them into a visual corpse.

In 1993-1994, when I was in art school, I felt like an outsider amongst outsiders.  I was queer, but there were so few out queer people around...

An update on avant-garde psychodrama (its 21st-century sensibility signaled by low-end video effects) in which a gay man’s sexual identity...

A 10-minute tape focused on greenish night-vision textures from a cheap digital camera and certain high-camp performance values, organized around a...

The set of Bewitched is a spiritual battleground of overlapping zones — human, alien and cyborg — in Bobby Abate's latest ontological...

An analog video mix of Sylvester Stallone's first porno "A Party at Kitty and Stud's" and a sound piece from 1993 making Kitty's lonely dance in pink...

This is a summer memoir of two personal intertwined love affairs; one with Salisbury Beach and the other with a strange and charming drifter the...