Ron Vawter Movies
- 1987

Landscape Suicide
Landscape Suicide7.3081987HD
Benning continues his examination of Americana in this film through the stories of two murderers. Ed Gein was a Wisconsin farmer and multiple...
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- 1980

Empty Suitcases
Empty Suitcases4.61980HD
Bette Gordon describes her first feature film as “a narrative derived from film’s own material and my concern for exploring issues of...
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- 1993

White Homeland Commando
White Homeland Commando101993HD
White Homeland Commando takes the familiar terrain of network action drama and tilts the playing field. Reminiscent of today's popular reality-based...
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- 1992

Buying a Landslide
Buying a Landslide01992HD
Republican Senator Walter Partin trails Democrat Philip Kautsky in the polls and will shortly face him in a televised debate. Drafted to play Kautsky...
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- 1993

Brace Up!
Brace Up!101993HD
The Wooster Group's production of Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters, translated by Paul Schmidt and directed by Elizabeth LeCompte, with performances...
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- 1995

Roy Cohn/Jack Smith
Roy Cohn/Jack Smith01995HD
When Jill Godmilow’s movie Roy Cohn/Jack Smith premiered at the 1994 Toronto International Film Festival, the number of AIDS-related deaths was...
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- 1990

Made in Hollywood
Made in Hollywood71990HD
A parable of the Hollywood image-making industry told through a pastiche of narrative cliches.
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- 1981

Strong Medicine
Strong Medicine5.61981HD
Adaptation of an avant-garde play about Rhoda, a hysterical heroine who feels oppressed by the people around her. She suffers through her birthday...
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- 1979

Minus Zero
Minus Zero01979HD
A psycho noir where stalkers, terrorists and government agents collide.
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- 1983

King Blank
King Blank51983HD
Set in a motel room at NYC's Kennedy Airport, the film treats two days in the life of a deadbeat couple, an obsessive husband lost in a web of...
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- 1989

Volcano Saga
Volcano Saga01989HD
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...
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- 1994

The Last Time I Saw Ron
The Last Time I Saw Ron01994HD
Made in memory of the actor and my friend, Ron Vawter. Ron passed away shortly after the opening performances of the play "Philoktetes Variations,"...
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- 1989

Used Innocence
Used Innocence5.81989HD
Using experimental narrative structure as his vehicle, Benning recreates the sensationalized and controversial circumstances surrounding Lorencia...
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- 1992

Roy Cohn/Jack Smith (Live Stage Recording)
Roy Cohn/Jack Smith (Live Stage Recording)01992HD
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...
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- 1990

The Machine That Killed Bad People
The Machine That Killed Bad People01990HD
The Machine That Killed Bad People is about the cultural and political history of the Philippines leading up to the overthrow of President Ferdinand...
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