Pat Place

Acting
1953-01-01
Chicago, Illinois, USA

Biography

Pat Place is an artist, photographer, and musician noted for her work as a founding member and guitarist of no wave bands James Chance and the Contortions and Bush Tetras.

Known For & Full Filmography8 Titles

#1Guerillère Talks

Movie - 1978, 2h 15m as Herself

7.1 / 10
Documentary

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.

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#2Blank City

Movie - 2011, 2h 15m as Self

6.8 / 10
Documentary

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 circumstances that inspired artists like Jim Jarmusch, Lizzy Borden, and Amos Poe to produce some of their best works. Taking their cues from punk rock and new wave music, these young maverick filmmakers confronted viewers with a stark reality that stood in powerful contrast to the escapist product being churned out by Hollywood.

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#3Born in Flames

Movie - 1983, 2h 15m as Woman from Regazza

6.1 / 10
DramaSci-Fi

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.

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#4Red Italy

Movie - 1979, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

4.0 / 10

Second feature film by the French-born director is a Bertolucci-style story of a bored, rich woman looking for romance and adventure. She meets an American G.I., dumps him, then falls for a Communist worker.

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#5Letters to Dad

Movie - 1979, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

8.0 / 10

The almost lyrical Letters to Dad, is a meditation on authority that superimposes the spectre of Jonestown over the relatively fresh faces of the parapunk art world; the film takes on a musical form - like a 20th-century ballad composed of subliminal behavior cues, advertising testimonials, and the text of the National Enquirer

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#6Dear Jimmy

Movie - 1978, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

8.8 / 10
DocumentaryDrama

How to play a melody? A magic moment, unrepeatable. Life is just a bowl of cherries. Film as art as life as film.

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#7She Had Her Gun All Ready

Movie - 1978, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

7.6 / 10
DramaCrimeRomance

Two women – one passive and resigned, the other aggressive and domineering – interact in various locations in New York city. The film explores the dynamic between them before ending with a showdown at the roller-coaster on Coney Island.

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#8Rome '78

Movie - 1978, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

6.4 / 10
HistoryDrama

Nares mocks up Ancient Rome by shooting in faux-classical sites including Tribeca's American Thread Building, where a decrepit penthouse loft with a peeling-paint dome serves as an echoey stand-in for the imperial palace. The latter location required ingenuity: Posing as potential renters, Nares and associates asked the manager to show them the apartment, then unlocked the windows on the way out; a few hours later, they broke back into the space, full cast and crew in tow, to shoot the necessary scenes.

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