Cinema of Transgression etc
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- DirectorAndrew HornStarsBlack-Eyed SusanAllen FrameCharles LudlamDepressed after losing his lover a long time ago, Andre visits a psychiatrist. While in the doctor's waiting room, he strikes up a friendship with Lois, the doctor's receptionist, and later with Lois' husband, Bob. Although the couple want to help Andre recover from his depression, Andre finds himself unable to pull his life out of the past.
- DirectorTessa Hughes-FreelandNew York Citys Lower East Side in the early Eighties saw an explosion of the downtown film scene, as a variety of film-makers, photographers, performers and artists, inspired by the post-punk No Wave music scene.
- DirectorTessa Hughes-FreelandStarsHolly AdamsBob MookA film exploring the nature of sex and gender roles. Nymph a fairy walks and dances naked through a woodland before being pursued by Pan an evil spirit with an oversized penis.
- DirectorCharles PinionStarsAnnabelle DaviesHolly AdamsRick HallA girl gets a house by a lake when a relative is murdered. Her friends show up and start having (graphic) sex then get killed by some crazy perverts.
- DirectorRichard KernStarsAnnabelle DaviesLinda SerbuCharles WingTwo girls are in a sparsely furnished apartment scantily clad and being generally unpleasant to each other. A guy comes in, and they start to engage.
- DirectorRichard KernStarsAnnabelle DaviesA short film by underground film-maker and photographer Richard Kern, featuring Annabelle Lee. This movie came from his Death Trip collection.
- DirectorRichard KernStarsLydia LunchEmilio CubeiroMarty NationFINGERED is an art film that's constructed like a regular movie. Lydia Lunch plays a phone sex operator/prostitute that gets together with a guy she's been on the phone with. After a semi-hardcore sex scene, the violence begins. The man cuts someone's throat for looking at Lydia's character, then they go for a drive. The two abduct a hitch hiker and rape her in a junkyard.
- DirectorBabeth MondiniStarsDon BajemaLydia LunchHenry RollinsTension erupts when a couple shares their secluded hideaway with a visiting friend.
- DirectorMerrill AldighieriJoe TripicianStarsLydia LunchAnimalVictoria BisiAt the end of the Reagan years, rocker and confrontational performance artist Lydia Lunch launches a broadside. From a formal podium, she attacks the white male power structure of the US. Next she takes on her parents. Then, the volume lowered and the background the streets of New York, she lets us know what she thinks of life, of herself, and of us, anyone who's watching or listening. Life is depression, despair, and death. She's the girl next door gone bad. And us? Compliant sheep. Lunch lays out a challenge.
- DirectorBeth BScott BStarsJames RussoLydia LunchWilliam RiceA film noirish atmosphere is created to show detective Lunch (a popular underground musician and poet) plow her way through the plans of a corporate businessman who seeks government defense contracts through real "corporate wars" and the manipulation of politicians.
- DirectorVivienne DickStarsAdele BerteiLizzy Mercier DesclouxNancy FeinbergIt concerns itself with position of woman as subject and way women experience patriarchal law and heterosexual order.
- DirectorNick ZeddStarsGeoffrey CareyDonna DeathRoy DillardThe rise, fall and rise of a teen death-rock idol.
- DirectorRichard KernNick ZeddStarsNick ZeddDon HoustonMagot DamianA woman contemplates suicide in her NY apartment. Her boyfriend returns home to find her corpse in the bath and takes his sexual pleasure from it.
- DirectorNick ZeddStarsNick ZeddRockets RedglareFlip CrowleyZedd is minding his business, when he is stopped by a cop who accuses him of being a junkie. After a short argument he is beaten and dragged to the police station. At the station he is interrogated by a detective (Rockets Redglare) and the police chief. After being beaten and tortured several more times, Nick Zedd's character mutilates himself with some hedge cutters.