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Twins (1980, 50 min.) A comedy of fratricide. This film by the indie director stars performance artist Michael Smith in a double role as the psychopath Sam seeking to destroy his twin brother Stan, the policeman. Andrea Kovacs and Willoughby Sharp also lurk around Police Plaza in downtown NYC. "Twins" is Ahearn's second feature film, and he uses a deliberately structured and largely stationary camera technique as a throwback to the era of Keystone comedies and Buster Keaton films.
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Wild Style (1982, 82 min.) Universally acclaimed first hip-hop feature set in the boogie-down Bronx. Story centers around mythical graffiti writer Zoro (played by the legendary subway artist LEE Quinones) and his romance with the queen of the graffiti underground (Lady Pink Fabara). Stars rap's pioneers Grandmaster Flash, the Cold Crush Brothers, Rock Steady Crew, Rammellzee, and of course Fab Five Freddy.
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Landlord Blues (1987; 96 min.) It's tenant vs. landlord in this quintessentially New York story about a bicycle shop, a lease, a changing neighborhood and a real estate owner whose sleaziness is matched only by his stupidity. "Strikes a fine-tuned balance between humor and sadness but never loses a rich sense of irony." C.S. Monitor With Mark Boone Jr., Raye Dowell, Nona Hendryx; music by M. Ribot, R. Nathanson.
Acid Is Groovy Kill the Pigs (1993; 35 min.) This title is the Manson-like scrawl left at the scene of
Hollow Venus: Diary of a Go-Go Dancer (1989, 58 min., b&w) The story of Coco Dupree, a young
Kidnapped (1978, 60 min.) Mitchell's first film, a stark unedited recreation of Andy Warhol's Vinyl, this super-8 film purports to be the story of bored terrorists who kidnap a businessman. Stars Mitchell, Anya Phillips, Patti Astor and Duncan Smith among a crowd of hip poseurs talking sex, manners and politics. A classic look at the No Wave ennui ideal.
Geek Maggot Bingo (1983; 70 min)
The Wild World of Lydia Lunch (1983; 28 min.) & Others In Wild World, Zedd's brief but intimate relationship with Lydia Lunch enabled him to accomplish this dreamy, moving cinematic portrait. Zedd stole the film to shoot it. Music by Lunch and Pat Place. Tape also includes: Zedd's The Bogus Man, Thrust In Me, Go To Hell, and Kiss Me Goodbye, as well as a number of cable TV interviews a Zeddy feast.
Police State (1987, 19 min., b/w) Zedd's most ambitious political statement to date, in which the king "of Lower East Side sleaze gets himself arrested for being a junkie and/or faggot by Willoughby Sharp who does a good Office Krupke. At the precinct, the truly sadistic Rockets Redglare equates New York police brutality with Chile, South Africa and elsewhere. Zedd's film is filled with black humor, is well-made and the last five minutes bristle with Zedd's punk idealism at his best." Cover Magazine. Also stars Charles Horatio Crowley.
War Is Menstrual Envy Part I, II, and IIIV (1991, 80 min.) Stars: Annie Sprinkle, Kembra Pfahler, Nick Zedd, Ari Roussimoff. Very arty, brand new. This film is even further out in the Zeddzone, painting a space and characters that are completely alien to anything on this earth, yet so filled with pathos and humanity that they hit like a sledgehammer. Great personal statement ... purest possible vision of the heart and soul of the creator. It's great filmmaking. ... raw and packed with emotional power." Anthology Film Archives. "Forbidden, maybe even evil, perverted, ungodly." Jonas Mekas
Whoregasm See "Art Film".
Nick ZEDD (producer) The Cinema of Transgression (1986; 100 min) Nick Zedd's "Bogus Man" &"Go to Hell"; John Spencer's "Shithaus"; Lung Leg's "Worm Movie"; Richard Klemann's "A Suicide"; Erotic Psyche's "Mutable Fire"; Tommy Turner's "Simonland"; Richard Kern's "You Killed Me First" & "King of Sex", Michael Wolfe's "Nigger Night" and Manuel DeLanda's "Judgement Day" & "Ism Ism". This is everything you've been afraid to watchgraphic scenes of bodily functions, both excretory and sexual, hokey scenes of trumped up violence, animal abuse, stabbings & severed limbs, and some strangely moving and brilliant filmmaking by a wide collection of drug addicts, outlaws and perennial outsiders.
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a royal envoy's attempt to buy a historic Virginia estate for his boss the king. The film, set in Casablanca and Washington, D.C., stars Eric Mitchell and Boris Major and features Steve Buscemi and Mark Boone Jr.
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David BLAIR, Wax, or The Discovery of Television Among the Bees (1983, 85 min.)
Video artist's magnum opus: "Dazzling...a cyberpunk extravaganza!"Ð Boston Globe This surreal tape tells the story of Jacob Meeker, beekeeper and weapons-guidance designer who enters an hallucinatory alternative world where the A-bomb, the Gulf War and insects collide. "A witty psychedelic cult favorite." N.Y. Times
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Jacob BURCKHARDT, It Don't Pay To Be An Honest Citizen (1984, 85 min.) A filmmaker is mugged, and in seeking to recover his stolen film plunges into the ambiguous currents of the criminal world. Burckhardt's first featur is a wry fiction deriving naturally from documentary-style observation. "Cheap, funny and original." Berlinaletip With Vincent D'Onofrio, Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs.
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Joe CHRIST, Speed Freaks With Guns (1991, 30 min.) The ubregenerate spawn of Zedd, Kern, Turner,
et al, this Texan-come-lately continues to push the borders of bad taste. Speed Freaks is a sometimes all-too-real jump into a psycho-killer's mind, in which bad humor scarcely distances the manifest atrocities on screen.
One wonders if he's ever been cozy with the likes of David Koresh.
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the "Fatal Vision" murders of a policeman's wife and two kids, and formed the basis of the cop's alibi that kill-crazed hippies had done in his family. Hackmeister Christ takes him at his word, and fabricates a story
about the fantasy killers.
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Larry FESSENDEN, Experienced Movers (1985, 140 min.) A video epic, the story of the robbery of an art museum in "Boraxville," X-Movers savors the interpersonal seaminess of a world of petty thugs and downwardly mobile youth. A story "of love and deception in the lost lives of a town," from the play by Evan McHale. The director's first ambitious outing.
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New York performance artist who makes a living dancing topless where Church and White Streets cross in a bar called "Paradise." There she meets a mob boss who calls himself God, a thug named Richie, and a kept woman who goes by the name Desiree. An autobiographical glimpse at a world where topless dancing and performance
art collide. Star and cowriter Heather Woodbury, with Janet Donofrio, Harry Crosby, Manon Briere.
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Anders GRAFSTROM, Long Island Four (1980, 100 min.) This high-quality super-8 feature film was an underground hit. Based on a true incident, it tells the story of four Nazi saboteurs who landed in the U.S. in 1942 and are captivated by the decadent nightlife of NYC. Stars David McDermott, Lance Loud, Patti Astor, Gedde Watanabe, Klaus Nomi, and many more familiar faces from the NYC demi-monde at play in meticulous period settings. High-quality transfer by Brodsky & Treadway.
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Holly HARDMAN White Trash at Heart (1992; 33 min.) An uproarious romp through the twisted byways of Lynch-land, er Holy-Sin-land, USA. "A savvy satire kept bouyant by its energy and swift pace it takes Lynch's sledgehammer technique to its illogical limits." Shock Cinema Stars Holly Angell Hardman; music by the Workdogs, Poison Idea, Big Stick, A-Bones, others.
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Andrew HORN, Doomed Love (1983; 75 min.) This widely praised feature film won honors in Berlin, but is distributed only in Japan! Doomed Love features actor and painter Bill Rice in a quietly moving psychological drama. Spare haunted painted sets. With Ridiculous Theatre founder Charles Ludlam and Black-Eyed Susan.
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Eric MITCHELL, Red Italy (1979, 55 min.) Second feature film by the French-born director is a Bertolucci-style story of a bored, rich woman looking for romance and adventure. She meets an American G.I., dumps him, then falls for a Communist worker. Stars Jennifer Miro, Harald Vogl, Patti Astor, John Lurie, and Mitchell himself in a b/w evocation of the post-war nightclub scene. (Includes Mitchell-directed Squat Theater short "A Matter of Facts.")
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Michael WOLFE, Niggernight (1981; 20 min.) Four misguided youths into heavy metal music go on a self-ordained "moral crusade," the twisted brainchild of Steve, the group's "guru" of hate. Stars Brian Cullen, Steve Witting; filmed in Brooklyn.
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Nick ZEDD, They Eat Scum (1979; 70 min) John Waters liked this "disgusting outlay of cheapness, decadence, nihilism and everyday cannibalism. Nick Zedd's film must rank as something of an ultimate achievement of non-committal, unblinking savagery, a true expression of what used to be called the 'punk ethos.'" Soho Wkly News. Ruled obscene by a Canadian judge. Stars Donna Death.
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