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Adele Bertei

Adele Bertei

Acting

Known For

Desperately Seeking Susan
6.1

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.

Desperately Seeking Susan

1985
Vortex
5.7

A film noirish atmosphere is created to show detective Lunch (a popular underground musician and poet) plow her way through the plans of a corporate businessman who seeks government defense contracts through real "corporate wars" and the manipulation of politicians.

Vortex

1982
Born in Flames
6.1

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.

Born in Flames

1983
Tears For Fears - Going To California
6.9

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.

Tears For Fears - Going To California

1990
The Offenders
7.0

A punk savage satire about a kidnapping.

The Offenders

1980
Guerillère Talks
7.3

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.

Guerillère Talks

1978
Beauty Becomes the Beast
7.5

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.

Beauty Becomes the Beast

1979
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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

Venus Flytrap!

2017
The Ragazzi Manifesto
N/A

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

The Ragazzi Manifesto

1978