elizabeth bouiss
filmmaker, designer, educator
works
-films-
Pyramid Club – The Movie transports you to a flourishing nightlife scene in a small dank bar called the Pyramid Cocktail Lounge, affectionately referred to as the Pyramid Club. Located in the gritty, burnt out East Village in 1980s NYC, and under a cloud of drug use, AIDS, and incomprehensible loss, a cadre of drag queens, artists and misfits of all types create a complex artistic phenomenon that continues to transform and inform the face of culture and counter-culture to this day.
Armed with only a small, borrowed camera, I head up. A drive that is usually three-hours takes me seven hours. I can’t get to my house because the roads are destroyed or closed, so I start filming in the surrounding areas that are accessible. In these early days after the flood, with the washed out roads, the mud, the debris, the contents of people’s lives sitting wrecked and rotting along the streets, you meet the people in my film as we follow their journey post-Irene. (Proof Of Concept)
No Time for Tears explores the experiences of the American women who served in Vietnam. In this award winning documentary the women give intimate accounts of why they went, their experiences in country and what their lives were like upon their return. Theirs is a story of hard work and heartache, disillusionment and healing.
Shot in NYC at anti-war rallies and during the 2004 Republican National Convention, we hit the streets and hear from protesters, civil rights activists and scholars to look at the First Amendment in action, and the crackdown on First Amendment Rights after 911.
Working New Yorkers discuss labor issues, the history of May Day and more.
-performance / events-
-bookmarks-
Made as spontaneous, creative expressions of functional art, each one unique.
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works
-films-
Pyramid Club – The Movie transports you to a flourishing nightlife scene in a small dank bar called the Pyramid Cocktail Lounge, affectionately referred to as the Pyramid Club. Located in the gritty, burnt out East Village in 1980s NYC, and under a cloud of drug use, AIDS, and incomprehensible loss, a cadre of drag queens, artists and misfits of all types create a complex artistic phenomenon that continues to transform and inform the face of culture and counter-culture to this day.
Armed with only a small, borrowed camera, I head up. A drive that is usually three-hours takes me seven hours. I can’t get to my house because the roads are destroyed or closed, so I start filming in the surrounding areas that are accessible. In these early days after the flood, with the washed out roads, the mud, the debris, the contents of people’s lives sitting wrecked and rotting along the streets, you meet the people in my film as we follow their journey post-Irene. (Proof Of Concept)
No Time for Tears explores the experiences of the American women who served in Vietnam. In this award winning documentary the women give intimate accounts of why the went, their experiences in country and what their lives were like upon their return. Theirs is a story of hard work and heartache, disillusionment and healing.
Shot in NYC at anti-war rallies and during the 2004 Republican National Convention, we hit the streets and hear from protesters, civil rights activists and scholars to look at the First Amendment in action, and the crackdown on First Amendment Rights after 911.
Working New Yorkers discuss labor issues, the history of May Day and more.
-performance / events-
-bookmarks-
Made as spontaneous, creative expressions of functional art, each one unique.
-photos-