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UCLA Film & Television Archive and the Hugh M. Hefner Classic American Film Program present

The Dominatrix Sleeps Tonight / Salvation! Have You Said Your Prayers Today?

A woman looking through a window.
April 8, 2023 - 7:30 pm


Admission is free. No advance reservations. Your seat will be assigned to you when you pick up your ticket at the box office. Seats are assigned on a first come, first served basis. The box office opens one hour before the event.

The Dominatrix Sleeps Tonight

U.S., 1983

An auto mechanic’s garage becomes the site of a rhythmic, erotic gathering in Beth B's music video for the mid-’80s club hit by Dominatrix.

DCP, color, 5 min. Director: Beth B.

Salvation! Have You Said Your Prayers Today?

U.S, 1987

In her first solo feature, Beth B takes on evangelical hypocrisy and the vicissitudes of the American Dream. After he’s laid off, a blue collar roughneck (Viggo Mortensen) hatches a plan to blackmail the televangelist (Stephen McHattie) that his starry-eyed wife (Exene Cervenka) sends all their cash to. Drenched in neon and Day-Glo with a soundtrack featuring Cabaret Voltaire, Arthur Baker and New Order, it doubles as a brilliantly curated time capsule of the 1980s.

DCP, color, 80 min. Director: Beth B. Screenwriters: Beth B, Tom Robinson. With: Steven McHattie, Viggo Mortensen, Exene Cervenka.