NICK ZEDD

'Nick Zedd' (born Jan 25, 1958 in Takoma Park, Maryland) is a New York City based filmmaker and author, coined the term Cinema of Transgression in 1985 to describe a loose-knit group of like-minded artists using shock value and humor in their work.
He has directed several super-low-budget movies, and he is the co-creator, with Rev. Jen Miller, of the public access television series ''Electra Elf'' (2004-) and the author of two books, ''Bleed'' (1992, Hanuman Books) and ''Totem of the Depraved'', (1996, 2.13.61Publications) both of which are autobiographical.
He is the director of photography on another TV series called "Chop Chop" (2007) produced by Nate Hill. Additional writing by Zedd is featured in Up Is Up But So Is Down (NYU Press) as well as in Captured (7 Stories Press), Low Rent (Grove Press) and Bleed (Hanuman Books).
Nick Zedd performed in a noise unit called Zyklon B, releasing a single called Consume and Die in 2000.
Zedd toured with Lisa Crystal Carver's Suckdog Circus and exhibited his films in the early 1990s.
Important essays outlining Zedd's philosophy are the ''Cinema of Transgression Manifesto'', published pseudonymously in the Underground Film Bulletin (1984-90) and ''The Theory of Xenomorphosis'' (1998).
Additionally, Nick Zedd has acted in such super-low-budget films as the Super-8 film ''The Manhattan Love Suicides'' (1985), ''What About Me'' (1993), ''Bubblegum'' (1995), ''Jonas In The Desert'' (1997),Troma Films' ''Terror Firmer'' (1999) and Thus Spake Zarathustra (2001).

Contents

Filmography

Further reading

External links

Filmography

★ ''They Eat Scum'' (1979)

★ "The Bogus Man" (1980)

★ ''Geek Maggot Bingo'' (1983)

★ "The Wild World of Lydia Lunch" (1983"

★ "Thrust In Me" (1984)

★ "Kiss Me Goodbye" (1985)

★ "Go To Hell" (1985)

★ ''Police State'' (1987)

★ ''Whoregasm'' (1988)

★ ''War Is Menstrual Envy'' (1992)

★ "Smiling Faces Tell Lies" (1995)

★ "Why Do You Exist" (1998)

★ "Tom Thumb in the Land of the Giants" (1999)

★ ''Ecstasy In Entropy'' (1999)

★ "I of K9" (2001)

★ "" (2001)

★ ''Lord of the Cockrings'' (2001)

★ ''Thus Spake Zarathustra'' (2001)

★ "I Was a Quality of Life Violation" (2002)

★ "" (2003)

★ "" (2003)

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Further reading

★ Nick Zedd's homepage

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External links

★ Official Myspace page for "Llik your idols", a documentary about the Cinema of Transgression featuring Nick Zedd

★ Website of ''Electra Elf''

★ Promo of ''Electra Elf''

★ Streaming episodes of ''Electra Elf''

★ Films from the Cinema of Transgression at UbuWeb.