Tav Falco

The story of Jerry Lee Lewis, arguably the greatest and certainly one of the wildest musicians of the 1950s. His arrogance, remarkable talent, and unconventional lifestyle often brought him into conflict with others in the industry, and even earned him the scorn and condemnation of the public.

Saturday Night" in a north central Mississippi ‘Tonk’ called the Brotherhood Sportsmen’s Lodge. We hear the blues expounded in its most volatile form. Hill country Blues player Rural (R.L.) Burnside and friends clearly delineate honky tonk in rural black life.

A naive Canadian barber who knows US popular culture inside and out meets a flamboyant roadie who needs someone to drive her and her "brother's" corpse from Thunder Bay, Ontario to New Orleans. Chaos ensues after the barber agrees to drive her, the corpse, and the drugs stashed within all the way.

"Who Is Bozo Texino?" is a film study on the 100-year-old tradition of hobo and railworker graffiti. Mostly shot on freight trips across the western US, the film includes interviews with some of the railroad’s greatest graffiti legends: Colossus of Roads, The Rambler, Herby (RIP) and the granddaddy of them all, Bozo Texino. The film also catches some of the socio-economic history of hobo subculture from its roots after the Civil War to the present day. The range of the interviews, and the film’s style deal with both the clichés and the harsh realities of tramp life.

An American girl Gina Lee has become disenchanted with her hometown. She buys an airline ticket to Vienna where she becomes embroiled in an intrigue to uncover buried Nazi plunder resulting in her drowning, yet her fate remains unresolved.

Workers from a maintenance crew hammer railroad ties along the Louisville and Nashville line, filmed by Tav Falco. Music: “Bourgeois Blues,” by Tav Falco & Panther Burns.

Filmic treatment of an original dirge fugue composed and delivered on screen by Tav Falco, himself...a singer, claims Variety "who was the first to treat Fellini to a Mississippi mud pak." Filmed in the baroque Cupola Room of Club Fésék in Budapest by cinématographer, Sas Tàmàs, and directed by Rainer Kirberg. The Austrian actress, Nina Tischler, debuts her career as 'Belzina'... and the avant-garde fashion designer, Tamàs Kiràly, known as the Jean Paul Gaultier of the east, appears here as a switch-blade wielding hustler. The Viennese dancer, Doris Ebner, performs a feline, tango ritual in the arms of Làszlò Attila who has been described as a dancing Bela Lugosi.

A melancholic lament about romantic longing and regret, originally written and performed by Tav Falco for his album Shadow Dancer. The piece was shot in Vienna’s famous Hotel Orient, a discreet brothel frequented by Orson Welles and Graham Greene during the filming of Carol Reed’s classic The Third Man. Notable Viennese stage and film actress Ellen Umlauf appears. Underground filmmaker and writer Kenneth Anger also appears as himself, shuffling a tarot deck and presiding over Tav Falco’s strange transformation into the dagger-wielding figure Fantômas.

Interweaving fact, folklore, fiction, religion, and lies, Wayne County Ramblin' seeks to reveal its' landscape as part of a great creole nation. It is at heart a road movie that travels south, in the opposite direction of the historical great migration of African-Americans. The story centers around young European-Americans Penny & her boyfriend Johnny, who leave Detroit in search of Penny's long-lost Grandfather, Simon, who is believed to be now-retired and living in his native Mississippi. Mugged and tied-up by the side of the road, they meet Jim, also from Michigan, heading to Mississippi on college break to chase the ghost of William Faulkner. Jim initially appears a fortunate opportunity to achieve their goal but sexual tensions and insecurities quickly cloud and threaten their destinations. But even if they are not aware of it, these three young Americans' lives are being directed by three west-African spirits, who are leading them to a better sense of who they really are.

A royal visit by Princess Da Ninci, incognito as Helene of Memphis. Music: “Me & My Chauffeur Blues” (Memphis Minnie), performed by Panther Burns.

Lightning girls caught in a timeless web stretched between the camera and the lover, and between the lover and the camera. Secrets revealed in a time capsule aborted too soon. Featuring: Marla, Eli Johnson, Amanda Jones, Char, Alex Chilton, Eric Hill, and Brian Brother.