Lydia Lunch

Born: 1959-06-02

Lydia Lunch is an American singer, poet, writer, actress and self-empowerment speaker, whose career was spawned by the New York no wave scene. Her work typically features provocative and confrontational noise music delivery, and has maintained an anti-commercial ethic, operating independently of major labels and distributors.


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The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things

as Social Worker #2
Released: 2004-09-15

Young Jeremiah lives in a stable environment with loving foster parents until the day his...

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Bye Bye Blondie

as La chanteuse
Released: 2012-03-21

A love story of two women who meet up in their late forties and attempt to retrieve the romance...

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Godkiller: Walk Among Us

as Bub (voice)
Released: 2010-05-25

Even in a postapocalyptic future in which Earth has been colonized by aliens, humans need hearts...

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Mutantes: Punk Porn Feminism

as Self - Interviewee
Released: 2009-12-21

Mutantes sheds light on a feminism that was little talked about in France. This documentary...

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Submit to Me

as uncredited
Released: 1986-01-01

Cinema of Transgression pioneers and participants (Lydia Lunch, Lung Leg, Nick Zedd, etc.)...

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Subway Riders

as uncredited
Released: 1981-04-02

A psychotic saxophone player lures victims to deserted spots with his music and then guns them...

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Mondo New York

as Prologue
Released: 1988-04-22

A young woman wanders around New York City and stumbles across a number of strange characters...

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Abnormal: The Sinema of Nick Zedd

as uncredited
Released: 2001-01-23

THE SINEMA OF NICK ZEDD is the first DVD collection of the filmmaker’s works, and includes 11 of...

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Submit to Me Now

as uncredited
Released: 1987-01-01

Oddballs dancing, leering at camera, guy shaving a nontraditional part of his body and man...

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Fake Orgasm

as uncredited
Released: 2010-12-02

Lazlo Pearlman is a conceptual artist, an activist capable of dinamiting our prejudices about...

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The Right Side of My Brain

as uncredited
Released: 1984-04-09

Lydia Lunch and Richard Kern's first collaborative effort, The Right Side of My Brain, is a...

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Blank City

as Self
Released: 2011-04-06

In the years before Ronald Reagan took office, Manhattan was in ruins. But true art has never...

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Kiss Napoleon Goodbye

as Hedda
Released: 1990-01-01

Punk icons Lydia Lunch and Henry Rollins star in this cult drama about a pregnant pianist named...

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Spit and Ashes

as uncredited
Released: 2019-10-25

Spit and Ashes is a reimagining of the historical violence waged against women by patriarchal...

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Fingered

as uncredited
Released: 1986-08-19

One of Richard Kern’s most ambitious works is Fingered (1986), whose sarcastic disclaimer says...

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Punking Out

as Herself
Released: 1978-09-26

The film documents the beginning of the punk rock movement in New York City at CBGB's, a punk...

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Vortex

as Angel Powers
Released: 1982-09-01

A film noirish atmosphere is created to show detective Lunch (a popular underground musician and...

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Kill Your Idols

as Herself
Released: 2004-04-08

A 2004 documentary on thirty years of alternative rock 'n roll in NYC.Documenting the history...

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Llik Your Idols

as Herself
Released: 2007-07-30

Discover the New York underground scene during the 80s and throw yourself into an exciting,...

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Barbecue Death Squad From Hell

as Herself
Released: 1986-05-08

Lydia Lunch and Penn & Teller jazz up the Jenkins' family picnic home movie, turning it into a...

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Lydia Lunch: The War Is Never Over

as Self
Released: 2019-08-15

The first career-spanning documentary retrospective of Lydia Lunch's confrontational, acerbic...

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Autoluminescent: Rowland S. Howard

as Self
Released: 2011-10-27

From myth to legend Rowland Howard appeared on the early Melbourne punk scene like a phantom out...

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Cruel Tricks for Dear Friends

as Self
Released: 1987-01-01

Penn & Teller's Cruel Tricks for Dear Friends is a straight-to-video release by magicians...

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Guerillere Talks

as Herself
Released: 1978-01-01

This experimental short consists of eight unedited rolls of super-8 film, each of which profiles...

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Baby Trouble Hole

as Performer
Released: 1996-09-29

Malga Kubiak stars in her exploration of sex and self. One woman's love to her own body...

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Gang of Souls: A Generation of Beat Poets

as Self
Released: 1989-01-01

Maria Beatty's documentary exploring the insights and influences of the American Beat Poets. The...

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Raw Nerves: A Lacanian Thriller

as uncredited
Released: 1980-12-09

A noir mostly set in a bathroom stall and stairwell. A private dick trapped in a tight spot. A...

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Visiting Desire

as Sitter
Released: 1996-11-19

Complete strangers meet in a room to act out their sexual desires.

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Rome '78

as uncredited
Released: 1978-12-23

Nares mocks up Ancient Rome by shooting in faux-classical sites like Grant's Tomb and Tribeca's...

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Penn & Teller's Invisible Thread

as uncredited
Released: 1987-03-18

Penn Jillette and Teller are called upon to display their unique brand of humor to save...

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NYC Foetus

as Herself
Released: 2009-05-15

A documentary about composer/producer/performer JG Thirlwell and his musical alter-egos,...

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L7: Pretend We're Dead

as Self
Released: 2017-10-13

A real time journey witnessing the rise, fall, and ultimate redemption of the fierce feminist...

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Beauty Becomes the Beast

as uncredited
Released: 1979-01-02

Beauty Becomes the Beast describes a random access world mediated by TV images and shards of...

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For the End of Time

as uncredited
Released: 2009-01-01

For the End of Time is a film about the mind… a film about the body and our inability to merge...

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The Gun Is Loaded

as Herself
Released: 1989-12-16

At the end of the Reagan years, rocker and confrontational performance artist Lydia Lunch...

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My Lover The Killer

as uncredited
Released: 2020-09-02

My Lover the Killer is the former title of the album by Lydia Lunch & Marc Hurtado released in...

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Lunch on Kern

as Herself
Released: 1997-01-01

Featuring Lydia Lunch and the photography of Richard Kern. Teaser for an arté doc [Chris Habib]...

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DANCE OF THE DEAD CHILDREN

as uncredited
Released: 1982-06-02

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Die Haut - Sweat

as Self
Released: 1994-07-07

Die Haut filmed live at Tempodrom, Berlin, August 1992. Featuring guest vocalists Alexander...

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Death Valley '69

as uncredited
Released: 1986-01-01

Death Valley '69 was the first music video by Sonic Youth. The video features the majority of...

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Lydia Lunch: Video Hysterie: 1978 - 2006

as Herself
Released: 2008-01-01

This fascinating and retrospective look at the music of the outspoken and multitalented Lydia...

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Richard Kern - Portrait: Live From New York

as uncredited
Released: 1997-01-01

Haxan Films-produced documentary on Richard Kern's work around 1997. Footage from his photo...

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The Hardcore Collection

as uncredited
Released: 2012-02-21

This DVD features 13 provocative short films by Richard Kern. Color & B&W film shorts with Lydia...

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70 Years of Youth Revolt

as Self (archive footage)
First aired: 2020-11-21

A look back at the social movements, revolts and youth subcultures from the post-war period to...

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The Ripple Effect

as Self
First aired: 2016-07-11

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