BitchBeauty (2011)

BitchBeauty is an experimental documentary paralleling the lives of Anne Hanavan whose experiences as part of the underground scene in the East Village of the 1980s was contemporary with nowdeceased actress Zoe Tamerlis Lund the actor and screenwriter of Bad Lieutenant who died of a heroincocaine overdose in 1999 Using Hanavans films performances readings and music as well as footage from Lunds work BitchBeauty is an intense sevenminute time capsule of addiction the perils of street prostitution and subsequent renewal or revival through cathartic selfexpression