Nick Zedd

Nick Zedd

Born: January 25, 1958
Died: February 27, 2022
in Baltimore, Maryland
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.

Movies for Nick Zedd...

Dark Forces
Title: Dark Forces
Character: Demon
Released: August 21, 2020
Type: Movie
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.
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Attack of the Particle Disruptors
Title: Attack of the Particle Disruptors
Released: June 8, 2017
Type: Movie
The paintings of Nick Zedd come to life, and they have some disturbing things to say in this animated short.
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Scumbag
Title: Scumbag
Character: Brian
Released: March 18, 2017
Type: Movie
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. The time on his life begins to tick as he battles addiction, fights the law and tries to maintain the only sane thing left in his life, his girlfriend, Christine.
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Halloween 1990
Title: Halloween 1990
Character: Himself
Released: January 1, 2014
Type: Movie
Jonas Mekas films the Halloween festivities at Anthology Film Archives in 1990.
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Blank City
Title: Blank City
Character: Self
Released: April 6, 2011
Type: Movie
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. Taking their cues from punk rock and new wave music, these young maverick filmmakers confronted viewers with a stark reality that stood in powerful contrast to the escapist product being churned out by Hollywood.
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Con Artist
Title: Con Artist
Character: Self
Released: November 12, 2010
Type: Movie
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.
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The Sex Files: A Dark XXX Parody
Title: The Sex Files: A Dark XXX Parody
Character: Agent 4
Released: September 30, 2009
Type: Movie
Federal agents Dana Scully (Kimberly Kane) and Fox Mulder (Anthony Rosano) are sent to investigate a series of mysterious homicides. A common thread of the murders are the occult images and symbols found at the scene of each crime. With time against them, Scully and Mulder must solve the riddle that will eventually lead them to someone or something they have never encountered before.
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Llik Your Idols
Title: Llik Your Idols
Character: Himself
Released: July 30, 2007
Type: Movie
Discover the New York underground scene during the 80s and throw yourself into an exciting, anarchic and repulsive world that you won't forget.
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Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis
Title: Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis
Character: Himself
Released: April 11, 2007
Type: Movie
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. Widely known for his banned queer erotica film Flaming Creatures, Smith was an innovator and firebrand who influenced artists such as Andy Warhol and John Waters.
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Kill the Artist
Title: Kill the Artist
Character: Himself
Released: January 1, 2007
Type: Movie
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.
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Other People's Mirrors
Title: Other People's Mirrors
Character: the alien spirit of Narcissus
Released: September 25, 2004
Type: Movie
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. It centers around the journey of Echo Transgression, a schizophrenic sex addict, who believes that if she follows the instructions being transmitted directly into her spine, then she will escape to her own version of nirvana. Underground legend Nick Zedd plays the alien phantom of Narcissus, a secret agent who makes sure she stays on course.
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Rockets Redglare!
Title: Rockets Redglare!
Character: Self
Released: May 2, 2003
Type: Movie
A portrait of Rockets Redglare, the morbidly obese fixture of New York's underground until his death in 2001. Rockets was the sometimes bodyguard/drug dealer of Sid Vicious and Jean Michel Basquiat, as well as a talented stand-up comic and character actor who left his indelible mark wherever he went. This film chronicles Rockets' last days, hunting for methadone in Puerto Rico and telling stories from his past.
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Thus Spake Zarathustra
Title: Thus Spake Zarathustra
Released: March 6, 2001
Type: Movie
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.
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In Bad Taste
Title: In Bad Taste
Character: Self
Released: September 3, 1999
Type: Movie
A documentary on the career of filmmaker John Waters. Featuring interviews with actors and fellow film-makers. The life and death of the actor Divine is also discussed.
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Tom Thumb in the Land of the Giants
Title: Tom Thumb in the Land of the Giants
Character: Phantom
Released: June 14, 1999
Type: Movie
A bizarre adventure in which a young boy is chased by a masked phantom holding a severed arm in a graveyard. A man with one arm appears and is handed the severed arm by the phantom. Then a giant woman appears enveloping the boy. An unsettling and delirious apocalyptic atmosphere pervades the movie, designed as a trailer for a "film of the future."
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Bubblegum
Title: Bubblegum
Released: August 19, 1996
Type: Movie
A 16mm narrative short shot in New York with Nick Zedd and Warhol superstar Holly Woodlawn.
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Jonas in the Desert
Title: Jonas in the Desert
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1994
Type: Movie
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.S. movies; founder and director of the New York Anthology Film Archive.
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What About Me
Title: What About Me
Character: Tom
Released: January 10, 1993
Type: Movie
After a family tragedy, a young woman finds herself homeless and living on the streets of New York.
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No Age New York
Title: No Age New York
Character: Himself
Released: January 1, 1993
Type: Movie
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. A love letter to the New York Underground.
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War Is Menstrual Envy
Title: War Is Menstrual Envy
Released: January 1, 1992
Type: Movie
Set in a post-apocalyptic future, the story finds a handful of ragged survivors attempting to communicate with dolphins, while another cadre of survivors have made it their crusade to destroy all the world's religions.
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Shadows in the City
Title: Shadows in the City
Character: Demagogue
Released: August 23, 1991
Type: Movie
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. Shadows in the City was the last major work of New York’s 1980s No Wave film scene. Shot over seven years in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens, painter-performer Ari Roussimoff’s only fiction feature captures the urban desolation of the city in the decade before gentrification.
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No Such Thing as Gravity
Title: No Such Thing as Gravity
Character: Adam Malkonian, Esq.
Released: January 1, 1989
Type: Movie
Set in the future, this tells of an Earth run by a conglomerate called the LaFont Corporation, which uses machines to rule its subjects. "Troublemakers" and malcontents are exiled to an artificial planet called Terra Nova. Problems arise when Terra Nova suddenly shifts its orbit and threatens to crash into Earth.
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We Are Not To Blame
Title: We Are Not To Blame
Released: January 1, 1989
Type: Movie
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. They slowly descend into madness as Stark wraps her head in bandages and paints her face white while clutching a baby doll.
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Whoregasm
Title: Whoregasm
Released: January 1, 1988
Type: Movie
Nick Zedd's controversial and disturbing WHOREGASM is a twelve-minute barrage of sexual loops interspersed with bits of found footage, dizzying opticals, and outtakes of Zedd's own POLICE STATE. The sex scenes, most which appear to be taken from old 8mm stag reels, are edited in such a way that makes the act of sex seem impersonal, mechanical, and altogether vile.
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Police State
Title: Police State
Character: Kid
Released: November 28, 1987
Type: Movie
Zedd 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.
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Submit to Me Now
Title: Submit to Me Now
Released: January 1, 1987
Type: Movie
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.
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Kiss Me Goodbye
Title: Kiss Me Goodbye
Released: January 1, 1986
Type: Movie
Zedd plays D.B. Shane, a dead star who visits a fan in her dreams, kisses her then kills her.
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King of Sex
Title: King of Sex
Released: January 1, 1986
Type: Movie
Short movie by New York photographer and cinematographer Richard Kern.
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Go to Hell
Title: Go to Hell
Released: January 1, 1986
Type: Movie
A junkie wakes up on the streets and walks around, seeing a woman dressed in all white and a heroin addict shooting up.
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Thrust in Me
Title: Thrust in Me
Character: Man / Woman
Released: September 11, 1985
Type: Movie
Zedd plays dual roles in this short-film as a street-wandering guy and a suicidal female.
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Manhattan Love Suicides
Title: Manhattan Love Suicides
Character: Poor Man / Man / Woman (segment "Woman at the Wheel" & "Thrust in Me")
Released: January 1, 1985
Type: Movie
A series of short films by Richard Kern: Stray Dogs, Woman At The Wheel, Thrust In Me, & I Hate You Now.
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Submit to Me
Title: Submit to Me
Released: January 1, 1985
Type: Movie
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Woman at the Wheel
Title: Woman at the Wheel
Character: Poor Man
Released: January 1, 1985
Type: Movie
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. She beats one of them up, before crashing into a group of youths and, finally, a wall.
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Simonland
Title: Simonland
Released: January 1, 1984
Type: Movie
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.
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The Wild World of Lydia Lunch
Title: The Wild World of Lydia Lunch
Character: Himself
Released: January 1, 1983
Type: Movie
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.