Jim Van Bebber Movies

Master Ota demonstrates all 18 Shorin Ryu Kata, both at a learning speed and at full speed. All forms are performed in the traditional Okinawan style

Behind the chaos and creativity of the making of 2003's THE MANSON FAMILY directed by Jim Van Bebber. This feature-length documentary was included on the film's unrated DVD and Blu-ray releases from Severin Films.

As another year begins a man of God, American soldier Jake Reeves has come back after ten years from a life of war in the middle east, when he receives a call from his deathly ill father who believes the Christ is coming back and that his long lost brother Johnny has been located. Now with his...

Ivan is a young man who travels a barren wasteland performing shows of self mutilation to small but adoring crowds. He is doing so to attempt to understand the cycle of child abuse he has been a part of. Through flashbacks and halucinations we see his Father murder his mother as well as the...

Jim Van Bebber's eight-millimeter kung fu short, a prototype for Deadbeat at Dawn.

Archival footage - from the 1990 Cincinnati, OH show (filmed on November 6, 1990 at Bogart's).

Archival footage - from the 1992 Cincinnati, OH show (filmed on June 2, 1992 at Bogart's).

The Mirk Riders is a movie about what you can't escape. Seen through the eyes and memory of band leader, Eve, as she leads her band through the desert after their last show of their tour. But a brief car problem sends the band into an unwinding downward spiral.

Detailed documentary about the making of Jim Van Bebber's Deadbeat at Dawn.