Beth B’s prolific career is characterized by work that challenges society’s conventions, with a particular focus on social issues and human rights. Beth B made an immediate and meteoric impact on New York City’s art scene in 1977, producing Super 8 films that invented a cinematic analog to the No Wave avant-garde in music. Beth B made an immediate and meteoric impact on New York City’s art scene in 1977, producing Super 8 films that invented a cinematic analog to the No Wave avant-garde in music. B has produced over 30 documentary, experimental, and narrative films, as well as interdisciplinary work that has been shown in festivals, galleries, and museums throughout the world, including Sundance, the Toronto International Film Festival, Centre Pompidou, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. In 2022-23, MoMA honored her with a career retrospective celebrating 45 years of filmmaking, including newly restored versions of her landmark feature films.
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