B Movies Presents Black Box

[New York]: B Movies, [1978]. 8 ½ x 14 in. Offset. Vertical fold line after image, and edge wear to top left edge; overall, very good. Item #6119

Poster advertising Black Box, a 1978 short film by Beth B and Scott B, starring Lydia Lunch and Bob Mason. Central figures in the development of No Wave visual and narrative aesthetics, which developed concurrently with and in contrast to the more glitzy and commercial New Wave, Beth B and Scott B made films with violent themes and imagery which mine the contradictions of power and police society. In Black Box, Lydia Lunch abducts and tortures an innocent adolescent boy.

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