The_Offenders_(1980_Film)
The Offenders (1980 film)
1980 film
The Offenders is a 1980 American No Wave color Super 8 film directed by Scott B and Beth B that, as a punk melodrama, post-modernly refers back to the 1921 melodrama film The Offenders directed by Fenwicke L. Holmes. It originally was presented as a serial that screened at Max's Kansas City and the Mudd Club[1] whereby each week the attendees paid for the making of next week's episodes.
The full version of The Offenders was first shown on March 6, 1980, at Film Forum[2] and then at other film houses during the height of the early-1980s New York City crime wave.[3] Publicity photographs for The Offenders were shot by Marcia Resnick.