Nick Zedd
Nick Zedd is a NYC-based filmmaker and the founder of the Cinema of Transgression. Zedd began making films with 1979′s They Eat Scum and later formed a cohesive film movement out of NYC’s Lower East Side low-budget, shock-based filmmaking community. His efforts included publishing the zine The Underground Film Bulletin, holding screening events in alternative venues, writing the Cinema of Transgression’s manifesto and producing a VHS compilation of Transgression filmmakers’ films. Even though Transgression burned out by the early ’90s, it helped influence a whole new generation of extreme filmmakers.
Learn more about this filmmaker at his official website.
Partial Filmography:
I Was a Quality of Life Violation (2004)
Elf Panties: The Movie (2001)
Ecstasy in Entropy (1999)
Screen Test 98 (1998)
Smiling Faces Tell Lies (1995)
War Is Menstrual Envy (1992)
Whoregasm (1988)
Police State (1987)
Kiss Me Goodbye (1986)
Thrust in Me (1985)
School of Shame (1984)
Geek Maggot Bingo (1983)
Totem of the Depraved (1983)
The Bogus Man (1980)
They Eat Scum (1979)
The New Transgression On DVD
Nick Zedd’s complete Adventures of Electra Elf is out as a special 4-disc box set; while Usama Alshaibi’s Solar Anus Cinema gets a new release.
Underground Yearbook: 1975
Notable underground film events of 1975 were the formation of Berks Filmmakers, the debut of the Rocky Horror Picture Show and Amos Poe making Night Lunch.
Cinema Abattoir In Europe
Pierre-Luc Vaillancourt is taking his transgressive screening series, Cinema Abattoir, on the road across Europe, screening films by Karl Lemieux and CA CA CA.
Cinema Abattoir On Nick Zedd
Cinema Abattoir responds to Nick Zedd’s report about being deported from Canada while on his way to present a retrospective of his films.
Nick Zedd Deported From Canada!
Nick Zedd was supposed to attended a Cinema of Transgression screening organized by Cinema Abattoir, but he was detained at the border and deported.
J. Hoberman’s Underground Favorites
J. Hoberman is the long-running film critic at the Village Voice, who is screening some of his favorite underground films, like Eraserhead and Black Box.
Deathtripping: The Extreme Underground
Soft Skull Press has reissued an amazing new edition of Jack Sargeant’s history of the influential Cinema of Transgression movement of the ’80s.
2007 Lausanne Underground Film Festival: Official Lineup
The Lausanne Underground Film Festival is screening Lloyd Kaufman’s Poultrygeist, a Damon Packard retrospective, plus a film by Bill Plympton and more.
