Scott B and Beth B

They created a series of noisy, scruffy, deeply personal short Super 8 mm films in which they combined violent themes and darkly sinister images to explore the manner in which the individual is constrained by society.

Black Box encapsulate all the Bs' major themes: crime, mind control, and sexual repression with the "minimal perfect-build" aesthetic of the man-sized vibrating containers Scott produced in his 1975 sculptor days.

The plot is simple: a passive innocent leaves his tawdry room, neon Big Brother sign blinking through the window, Mission: Impossible flickering on the TV, and girlfriend draped across the bed, to be kidnapped Patty Hearst-style by a gang of punk thought-police.

Menaced by an mad scientist, stripped, hung upside down, and tormented by surly, "shut up and suffer", Lydia Lunch, he is finally crammed into the dread refrigerator, where he, and we, are bombarded by a 10-minute crescendo of sound and light.

"[13] Letters to Dad For 11 minutes No Wave personalities such as Pat Place, Arto Lindsay, Vivienne Dick, John Ahearn, Kiki Smith, Tom Otterness and William "Bill" Rice, read messages addressed to what appears to be a father figure.

[15] Vortex, shot in 16 mm and made for $70,000 thanks to a National Endowment for the Arts grant via Colab,[16] is a film noirish drama featuring frequent collaborator Lydia Lunch as a detective who becomes immersed in corporate chicanery and the exploitation of politicians by companies soliciting defense contracts.