Tessa Hughes-Freeland Movies

In the years before Ronald Reagan took office, Manhattan was in ruins. But true art has never come from comfort, and it was precisely those dire...

After a vengeful sorceress is tortured and killed by a corrupt industrialist looking to harness the spectral powers of Red Spirit Lake, her niece...

A no-holds-barred portrait of addiction, RAT TRAP is an unflinching portrayal of a junkie injecting heroin cut with footage of (already expired)...

Carlo McCormick was invited to curate an East Village Art show at a gallery in Richmond, Virginia. Filmmaker Tessa Hughes-Freeland took filmic...

THE BUG/Lost Movie is a film by Tessa Hughes-Freeland, created between 1998 - 2018.

Tessa Hughes-Freeland’s “Baby Doll” is a tiny slice of cinéma vérité from 1982 about the girls working the now...

A film exploring the nature of sex and gender roles. Nymph, a fairy, walks and dances through a woodland before being pursued by Pan, an evil spirit.

Playboy is made from bits of vintage porno films, boxing films, westerns, and adventure and horror films.

1986 performance of the Butthole Surfers, documented on film by NYC filmmaker Tessa Hughes-Freeland.

Inspired by a dream, it is a reflection on the sentiment of loss. Working with film material directly, by combining handmade film, slides made from...

Originally one side of a live multiple projection, INSTINCT mixes irrationally convergent imagery. An iconography of the intangible and intuitive,...

Documenting Graffiti culture in a basketball court in the Bronx. The filmmaker was accompanied by Martin Wong who said, "bring your camera". The...

A surrealistic narrative is created which collapses different realities into one, by means of both similarities and juxtapositions. There is a...

Watch Out! is a lighthearted poetic comment which addresses concepts of male voyeurism. Exploring clichés to the point of saturation, these...

1983 short by Tessa Hughes-Freeland

Rhonda Goes to Hollywood functions in a similar fashion, exploring the very existence of Hollywood's stars as merely social constructions. The film...

Mike Bidlo’s performative re-creation of Yves Klein's, "Anthropométries de l'époque bleue" at the Palladium in NYC.

Document of the experimental Butoh group Poppo

This film was made for an exhibition entitled "Ghosts of the Catskills". The history of the Catskills had made an impression on me was that of the...

Inspired by and loosely based on the introduction to Blue Of Noon by Georges Bataille, the title was taken from the name of the main character. It is...