Tommy Turner

Born: None

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.


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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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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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Woman at the Wheel

as Annoying 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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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 Peddler (segment "I Hate You Now")
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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Where Evil Dwells

as uncredited
Released: 1985-09-27

Loosely based on an infamous 1984 Long Island murder case involving Satan-worshiping, teenage...

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I Hate You Now

as Peddler
Released: 1985-01-01

“I Hate You Now” is about when you’re in a relationship, and the person you’re in a relationship...

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The Dominatrix Sleeps Tonight

as Mechanic
Released: 2009-06-10

A gang of leather-clad, powerful women take over a traditionally male domain, and hairspray,...

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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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The Acid King

as Himself
Released: 2021-11-09

The story of Ricky Kasso, an American teenager who murdered his friend, Gary Lauwers, in an...

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Black Hearts Bleed Red

as uncredited
Released: 1992-01-01

A stark adaptation of Flannery O’Connor’s short story A Good Man Is Hard To Find.

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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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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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