Bad Brains at CBGB: My Picture in your Movie Baby
1980
Film, 24:45.
Materials: Super-8 film
Bad Brains at CBGB: My Picture in your Movie Baby is a documentary about the Washington DC punk band Bad Brains. Nicola recorded her own street actions from the beginning on super 8 film, on which we see mostly the Pénétrables (canvases in which you can stick your head, arms and legs) walking down the street, going through a museum or enjoying a meal in the Brussels metro. Le manteau pour our personnes or The Red Coat For 11 People or Same Skin For Everybody was performed and recorded at various locations throughout the 1970s. In 1980, Nicola makes her first documentary film about the punk band Bad Brains. Later, she makes a docu on the anarchist anti-war activist Abbie Hoffman, recording his first interview after seven years in hiding. In 2014 she releases Doors Ajar at the Chelsea Hotel about New York's most famous bohemian/ rock/ punk den where Nicola L herself lived from 1979 until it closed in 2011.
