Bobby Abate Movies
- 2004

Certain Women
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Caldwell's pulp storytelling, proto-feminist stance and unabashed social dramatization of his characters are a distinct vision of the condition of...
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- 2006

Zenith
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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...
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- 2004

Soothsayer
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Prophecies of doom, disaster and political catastrophe envisioned by some of the world’s most famous psychics between the 1960’s the year...
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- 2010

Love Rose
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A séance is performed by three cloned versions of the filmmaker in order to make a connection to another plane. The rules of the...
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- 2011

The Evil Eyes
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A dysfunctional family deals with mortality, life and sexuality as they watch a soap opera.
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- 2001

Lucky
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Crafted from softly pixilated QuickTime, NetMeeting sessions, emotive vintage pop, airplane disaster footage, online porn, streaming Hollywood...
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- 1997

Meet Me at the Pavilion
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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...
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- 2011

Gossip
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Rebecca gazes into the crystal ball. It is afternoon in a Brooklyn neighborhood of industrial buildings. Rebecca has a way with words just as...
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- 2002

One Mile Per Minute
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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...
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- 1999

Chisholm
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Abate’s 16mm films The Tanti Man, The Zero Order and Chisholm invoke Kenneth Anger-esque horny montage fantasies of personal psychodrama and...
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- 1997

Yool Is Bloo
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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...
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- 2012

A Few Extra Copies
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An analog recreation and reclamation of the January 22, 1987 news conference in which Pennsylvania's State Treasurer Budd Dwyer grasped onto the...
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- 2013

Dirty Code
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SECRETS AND LIES become an aggressive virus when injected into the binary code of several video clips -- degrading them into a visual corpse.
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- 1993

Self-Portraits
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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...
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- 2000

The Zero Order
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An update on avant-garde psychodrama (its 21st-century sensibility signaled by low-end video effects) in which a gay man’s sexual identity...
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- 2009

The Three Ravens
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A 10-minute tape focused on greenish night-vision textures from a cheap digital camera and certain high-camp performance values, organized around a...
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- 2005

Sylvania
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The set of Bewitched is a spiritual battleground of overlapping zones — human, alien and cyborg — in Bobby Abate's latest ontological...
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- 1994

Kitty's Nite In
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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...
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- 1999

The Tanti Man
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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...
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