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Nick Zedd was an American filmmaker and author based in New York City. He coined the term "Cinema of Transgression" in 1985 to describe a loose-knit group of like-minded filmmakers and artists using shock value and black humor in their work. Zedd directed several super-low-budget movies, including the feature length They Eat Scum and Geek Maggot Bingo, as well as numerous short films.
Total trailers found: 53
23 August 1991
Paul Mills is a miserable, lonely man leading a meaningless existence in a nameless city and has visions of the Spirit of Death waiting to collect him while having encounters with various people while seeking solace for his short life knowing it will end soon.
21 August 2020
In search of his sister, a renegade criminal seeks answers at a sordid hotel where he encounters a sinister guest and romances a mysterious waitress.
03 September 1999
A documentary on the career of filmmaker John Waters. Featuring interviews with actors and fellow film-makers.
06 April 2011
In the years before Ronald Reagan took office, Manhattan was in ruins. But true art has never come from comfort, and it was precisely those dire circumstances that inspired artists like Jim Jarmusch, Lizzy Borden, and Amos Poe to produce some of their best works.
01 January 1989
Set in the future, this tells of an Earth run by a conglomerate called the LaFont Corporation, which uses machines to rule its subjects.
25 September 2004
In a pseudo sci-fi trip of pornographic proportions. In Other People's Mirrors, the camera feels like an extension of the unstable characters it is following, taking on a near-home-movie style documentation of street performance and improvised art.
10 January 1993
After a family tragedy, a young woman finds herself homeless and living on the streets of New York.
19 August 1996
A 16mm narrative short shot in New York with Nick Zedd and Warhol superstar Holly Woodlawn.
01 January 1987
Oddballs dancing, leering at camera, guy shaving a nontraditional part of his body and man ripping his own throat out, woman stabbing herself to death.
01 January 1986
Cinema of Transgression pioneers and participants (Lydia Lunch, Lung Leg, Nick Zedd, etc.) perform a series of acts as they submit to director Richard Kern's camera.
11 April 2007
In this entrancing documentary on performance artist, photographer and underground filmmaker Jack Smith, photographs and rare clips of Smith's performances and films punctuate interviews with artists, critics, friends and foes to create an engaging portrait of the artist.
02 May 2003
A portrait of Rockets Redglare, the morbidly obese fixture of New York's underground until his death in 2001.
01 January 1993
A scattershot documentary about punk rock film makers in New York, with contributions from Lydia Lunch, Henry Rollins, Richard Kern, Beth B, Nick Zedd and many others.
01 January 1999
An agit-prop edutainment ho down featuring a bevy of warrior lapdancers struggling to overthrow corporate state capitalism and rancid criminal globalisation through amateur wrestling, gun juggling and anarchist debate.
01 January 1994
Not a documentary in the strictest sense of the word. Rather, it is a journey through the world of the artist Jonas Mekas - one of the exponents of independent U.
01 January 1985
A woman takes each of her boyfriends - one poor and one rich- for a drive in her new car. Each argues with her and insists on taking the wheel.
12 November 2010
A docu-comedy feature film about a once-famous millionaire "business artist" forced to confront his own legendarily obnoxious behavior, while trying to find love through fame.
01 January 2007
Reveals the extreme measures lawmakers and critics go through to censor avant-garde artists, who walk the fine line between art, perversion, religion and devious sexual behavior.
30 July 2007
Discover the New York underground scene during the 80s and throw yourself into an exciting, anarchic and repulsive world that you won't forget.
01 January 1986
Short movie by New York photographer and cinematographer Richard Kern.
22 November 2004
An old lady looks for her missing dog and is arrested for putting up posters.
01 January 1989
The apparent strangeness of two sisters becomes easily understood as they wreak appropriate revenge on one of their abusive husbands, by tying him up and imprisoning him on their rooftop.
31 December 2007
This exhibition focuses on Jonas Mekas’ 365 Day Project, a succession of films and videos in calendar form.
01 January 1984
Totems of destruction and desire. An operation on the combustible urges in a junk black mass. A swiftly-sliced nightmare of history and erotic autobiography.
14 June 1999
A bizarre adventure in which a young boy is chased by a masked phantom holding a severed arm in a graveyard.
01 January 1985
A series of short films by Richard Kern: Stray Dogs, Woman At The Wheel, Thrust In Me, & I Hate You Now.
01 April 1983
From the warped mind of underground auteur Nick Zedd comes this campy horrorfest that follows screwy scientist Dr.
11 January 2017
Three werewolf women from Uranus are sent to Earth to exterminate all bullies, stooges, and sexists in New York City.
01 January 2014
Jonas Mekas films the Halloween festivities at Anthology Film Archives in 1990.
01 January 1998
A series of close-ups of real urban 'types' in which the camera is returned to its Edison-era status as a simple recording device.
01 January 2001
Reverend Jen tries on different pairs of panties.
11 April 1980
A look at a conspiracy involving the United States president Jimmy Carter.
08 June 2017
The paintings of Nick Zedd come to life, and they have some disturbing things to say in this animated short.
01 December 1984
The film starts off with an eight minute concert sequence shot in the summer of '84 at a club called Eight BC in NYC.
06 March 2001
Zarathustra spends his days in his NY apartment, talking to and confiding in a pin-up on his wall, and on this occasion his delusional dialog with the porn idol results in his declaration that he must ‘descend’, as if being reluctantly chosen for some important or divine mission.
08 June 2017
The legendary underground filmmaker Nick Zedd returns with this fantastic account of the titular death of performance artist and costume designer Muffinhead.
13 March 2018
Throwing pearls before swine, Nick Zedd and MVD unleash ten never before seen additions to the grounn
23 January 1986
Video Fanzine featuring: Half Japanese, Redd Kross with Sky Saxon as Purple Electricity, R Kern, Sonic Youth, White Flag, Psycho Daisies, Charlie Pickett, Nick Zedd, Morbid Opera More R&R, Film, Prose.
01 January 1986
A junkie wakes up on the streets and walks around, seeing a woman dressed in all white and a heroin addict shooting up.
01 January 1983
Shot entirely in Ireland and England on film stolen by Nick Zedd, the movie offers a rare glimpse into the unique private world of Lydia Lunch; The footage "narrated" by a break-up cassette sent from Lunch to Zedd.
11 September 1985
Zedd plays dual roles in this short-film as a street-wandering guy and a suicidal female.
01 January 1983
A parody of, and tribute to, Andy Warhol's MY HUSTLER. The film follows Nick Zedd as he illustrates his method of street survival; hustling people for a roof over his head.
01 January 1986
Zedd plays D.B. Shane, a dead star who visits a fan in her dreams, kisses her then kills her.
28 November 1987
In Nick Zedd's mock docu-drama Police State, he puts his own body on the line to illustrate his belief that “freedom is an illusion.
01 January 1992
Set in a post-apocalyptic future, the story finds a handful of ragged survivors attempting to communicate with aquatic life, while another cadre of survivors have made it their crusade to destroy all the world's religions.
18 March 2017
A young hipster wannabe-superstar dj, Phil, takes on a day job at a telemarketing company, working with crazy people, ex-prisoners, drug addicts and murderers.
27 December 2001
A collection of the weird and wonderful works of indie film maker Nick Zedd.
14 January 2024
A compilation of short films directed by Sebastian Sommer from 2014 - 2023.
01 January 1984
In the unsettling, absurdist SIMONLAND, a grotesque, televangelist-style demagogue leads his studio audience and isolated viewers through a psychotic game of Simon Says with twisted results.
