Nick Zedd

Born: 1958-01-25

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.


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Dark Forces

as Demon
Released: 2020-08-21

In search of his sister, a renegade criminal seeks answers at a sordid hotel where he encounters...

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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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Scumbag

as Brian
Released: 2017-03-18

A young hipster wannabe-superstar dj, Phil, takes on a day job at a telemarketing company,...

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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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In Bad Taste

as Self
Released: 1999-09-03

A documentary on the career of filmmaker John Waters. Featuring interviews with actors and...

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Whoregasm

as uncredited
Released: 1988-01-01

Nick Zedd's controversial and disturbing WHOREGASM is a twelve-minute barrage of sexual loops...

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Woman at the Wheel

as Poor Man
Released: 1985-01-01

A woman takes each of her boyfriends - one poor and one rich- for a drive in her new car. Each...

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365 Day Project

as uncredited
Released: 2007-12-31

This exhibition focuses on Jonas Mekas’ 365 Day Project, a succession of films and videos in...

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Other People's Mirrors

as the alien spirit of Narcissus
Released: 2004-09-25

In a pseudo sci-fi trip of pornographic proportions. In Other People's Mirrors, the camera feels...

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Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis

as Self
Released: 2007-04-11

In this entrancing documentary on performance artist, photographer and underground filmmaker...

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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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Manhattan Love Suicides

as Poor Man / Man / Woman (segment "Woman at the Wheel" & "Thrust in Me")
Released: 1985-01-01

A series of short films by Richard Kern: Stray Dogs, Woman At The Wheel, Thrust In Me, & I...

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No Such Thing as Gravity

as Adam Malkonian, Esq.
Released: 1989-01-01

Set in the future, this tells of an Earth run by a conglomerate called the LaFont Corporation,...

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Rockets Redglare!

as Self
Released: 2003-05-02

A portrait of Rockets Redglare, the morbidly obese fixture of New York's underground until his...

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Llik Your Idols

as Himself
Released: 2007-07-30

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

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Tom Thumb in the Land of the Giants

as Phantom
Released: 1999-06-14

A bizarre adventure in which a young boy is chased by a masked phantom holding a severed arm in...

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Thus Spake Zarathustra

as uncredited
Released: 2001-03-06

Zarathustra spends his days in his NY apartment, talking to and confiding in a pin-up on his...

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What About Me

as Tom
Released: 1993-01-10

After a family tragedy, a young woman finds herself homeless and living on the streets of New York.

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Attack of the Particle Disruptors

as uncredited
Released: 2017-06-08

The paintings of Nick Zedd come to life, and they have some disturbing things to say in this...

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King of Sex

as uncredited
Released: 1986-01-01

Short movie by New York photographer and cinematographer Richard Kern.

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Jonas in the Desert

as Self
Released: 1994-01-01

Not a documentary in the strictest sense of the word. Rather, it is a journey through the world...

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Police State

as Kid
Released: 1987-11-28

Zedd is minding his business, when he is stopped by a cop who accuses him of being a junkie....

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Kiss Me Goodbye

as uncredited
Released: 1986-01-01

Zedd plays D.B. Shane, a dead star who visits a fan in her dreams, kisses her then kills her.

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Thrust in Me

as Man / Woman
Released: 1985-09-11

Zedd plays dual roles in this short-film as a street-wandering guy and a suicidal female.

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Con Artist

as Self
Released: 2010-11-12

A docu-comedy feature film about a once-famous millionaire "business artist" forced to confront...

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Simonland

as uncredited
Released: 1984-01-01

In the unsettling, absurdist SIMONLAND, a grotesque, televangelist-style demagogue leads his...

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War Is Menstrual Envy

as uncredited
Released: 1992-01-01

Set in a post-apocalyptic future, the story finds a handful of ragged survivors attempting to...

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Go to Hell

as uncredited
Released: 1986-01-01

A junkie wakes up on the streets and walks around, seeing a woman dressed in all white and a...

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Sublapse Video Mag 1

as uncredited
Released: 1986-01-23

Video Fanzine featuring: Half Japanese, Redd Kross with Sky Saxon as Purple Electricity, R Kern,...

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Bubblegum

as uncredited
Released: 1996-08-19

A 16mm narrative short shot in New York with Nick Zedd and Warhol superstar Holly Woodlawn.

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Halloween 1990

as Himself
Released: 2014-01-01

Jonas Mekas films the Halloween festivities at Anthology Film Archives in 1990.

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The Sex Files: A Dark XXX Parody

as Agent 4
Released: 2009-09-30

Federal agents Dana Scully (Kimberly Kane) and Fox Mulder (Anthony Rosano) are sent to...

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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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