Tommy Turner
Tommy Turner is considered a key figure of the Downtown No Wave and Cinema of Transgression movements. While working days as a genetic research scientist and nights as a bartender at the Peppermint Lounge, the New York native rose to prominence through his zine Redrum and collaborations with Richard Kern and David Wojnarowicz.
Blank City
as SelfIn the years before Ronald Reagan took office, Manhattan was in ruins. But true art has never...
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Submit to Me
as uncreditedCinema of Transgression pioneers and participants (Lydia Lunch, Lung Leg, Nick Zedd, etc.)...
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Submit to Me Now
as uncreditedOddballs dancing, leering at camera, guy shaving a nontraditional part of his body and man...
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The Acid King
as HimselfThe story of Ricky Kasso, an American teenager who murdered his friend, Gary Lauwers, in an...
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Woman at the Wheel
as Annoying ManA woman takes each of her boyfriends - one poor and one rich- for a drive in her new car. Each...
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Death Valley '69
as uncreditedDeath Valley '69 was the first music video by Sonic Youth. The video features the majority of...
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The Dominatrix Sleeps Tonight
as MechanicA gang of leather-clad, powerful women take over a traditionally male domain, and hairspray,...
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Manhattan Love Suicides
as Peddler (segment "I Hate You Now")A series of short films by Richard Kern: Stray Dogs, Woman At The Wheel, Thrust In Me, & I...
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I Hate You Now
as Peddler“I Hate You Now” is about when you’re in a relationship, and the person you’re in a relationship...
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Where Evil Dwells
as uncreditedLoosely based on an infamous 1984 Long Island murder case involving Satan-worshiping, teenage...
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Black Hearts Bleed Red
as uncreditedA stark adaptation of Flannery O’Connor’s short story A Good Man Is Hard To Find.
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Simonland
as uncreditedIn the unsettling, absurdist SIMONLAND, a grotesque, televangelist-style demagogue leads his...
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The Hardcore Collection
as uncreditedThis DVD features 13 provocative short films by Richard Kern. Color & B&W film shorts with Lydia...
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