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Bette Gordon

Bette Gordon
Professor
512 Dodge Hall

Bette Gordon premiered her new feature Handsome Harry at the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival in the world narrative competition section. The film stars an ensemble cast including Campbell Scott, Steve Buscemi, Aidan Quinn, John Savage, and Karen Young. A pioneer in the American Independent Film world, Gordon is best known for her bold explorations of themes related to sexuality. Her early short films, most notably Empty Suitcases, won numerous awards and festival acclaim worldwide, including showings at the Berlin International Film Festival, New York's Museum of Modern Art and The Whitney Biennial.

Variety (1984) marked her debut as a feature film director, particularly in light of the film's invitational showing at The Cannes Film Festival's Director's Fortnight. Luminous Motion, based on the acclaimed novel History of Luminous Motion, was produced by Ted Hope and Anthony Bregman of Good Machine.

2010
Handsome Harry
Bette Gordon is a great idea: a woman filmmaker who “makes the films I want to make,” produces provocative work of substance and heart....▶

2009
Tribeca Film Festival
Gordon answers questions on-stage at a screening of the recently reprinted Variety, the feminist classic that marked Gordon's feature debut....▶

1981
Empty Suitcases
Recently, the film has found a renewed life due to a revived interest in the independent films of the late 1970’s and early 1980’s....▶

  

Sample Courses

· Film MFA: Directing I
Students explore the grammatical rules and narrative elements of cinematic storytelling by completing a minimum of three short, non-dialogue exercises and two sound exercises, all shot and edited in...
· Film MFA: Directing II
Students shoot and edit in video an 8-12 minute screenplay developed in the writing workshop by another student. The director's work on script, floor plans, staging, camera, and storyboards are...
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