Adele Bertei

A bored New Jersey suburban housewife's fascination with a free-spirited woman she has read about in the personal columns leads to her being mistaken for the woman herself and into a chaotic adventure of amnesia and self-discovery.

In near-future New York, ten years after the “social-democratic war of liberation,” diverse groups of women organize a feminist uprising as equality remains unfulfilled.

This experimental short consists of eight unedited rolls of super-8 film, each of which profiles an individual woman in real time. The women engage in everyday behaviour, such as playing pinball or reading a letter aloud.

A punk savage satire about a kidnapping.

Short film by Scott B & Beth B showcasing Adele Bertei reading her poem, The Ragazzi Manifesto.

Going To California is a concert performance video by the British pop group Tears For Fears. Released in 1990, it is a recording of the band's show at the Santa Barbara County Bowl in May 1990 during their "Seeds Of Love" World Tour.

Beauty Becomes the Beast describes a random access world mediated by TV images and shards of popular culture. The film features a powerful performance by Lydia Lunch regressing from adulthood to childhood, hinting at a sexually abusive past. It concerns itself with the position of woman as subject and the way women experience patriarchal law and the heterosexual order.

In this short film by renowned singer, songwriter, and author Adele Bertei – conceived of as a proof-of-concept for a web series – pangender Tazmanian devil Tink holds auditions for her punk feminist band. Playing Tink’s punk-rock grandmother, Rosemary Hochschild turns in a scene-stealing performance. — Anthology Film Archives