01. John Spencer - Shithaus
02. Lung Leg - Worm Movie
03. Richard Klemann - A Suicide
04. Nick Zedd - The Bogus Man
05. Nick Zedd - Go To Hell
06. Erotic Psyche - Mutable Fire
07. Tommy Turner - Simonland
08. Richard Kern - You Killed Me 1st
09. Richard Kern - The King of Sex
10. Michael Wolfe - Nigger Night
11. Manuel Delanda - Judgement Day
12. Manuel Delanda - Ism Ism |
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Original video release of The Cinema of Transgression Vol. 1. This is a collection of short films co-ordinated and produced by Nick Zedd
and featuring the short film Shithuas by John Spencer.
The film lasts 11m 58s and feautres Cough 'n' Kill by Wiseblood and the music of Shithaus.
Also originally issued on Betamax and later issued on DVD and sold via the official Nick Zedd website.
John Spencer is interviewed in The Underground Film Bulletin
6 where he talks about the films Ponzo's Masterwork and Pus (click here to view the 2700 word feature).
VIEW: The Underground Film Bulletin 6: The Most Hated
Filmaker In The World (PRESS, US)
VIEW: Shithaus - Crush: Live Crush 84 - 85 (CASSETTE, US)
VIEW: V/A feat. John Spencer - The Cinema of Transgression
(DVD, US)
VIEW: Jon Spencer solo releases
"Cinema of Transgression Manifesto by Nick Zedd
We who have violated the laws, commands and duties of the avant-garde; i.e. to bore,
tranquilize and obfuscate through a fluke process dictated by practical convenience
stand guilty as charged. We openly renounce and reject the entrenched academic snobbery
which erected a monument to laziness known as structuralism and proceeded to lock
out those filmmakers who possesed the vision to see through this charade.
We refuse to take their easy approach to cinematic creativity; an approach which
ruined the underground of the sixties when the scourge of the film school took over.
Legitimising every mindless manifestation of sloppy movie making undertaken by a
generation of misled film students, the dreary media arts centres and geriatic cinema
critics have totally ignored the exhilarating accomplishments of those in our rank
- such underground invisibles as Zedd, Kern, Turner, Klemann, DeLanda, Eros and
Mare, and DirectArt Ltd, a new generation of filmmakers daring to rip out of the
stifling straight jackets of film theory in a direct attack on every value system
known to man.
We propose that all film schools be blown up and all boring films never be made
again. We propose that a sense of humour is an essential element discarded by the
doddering academics and further, that any film which doesn't shock isn't worth looking
at. All values must be challenged. Nothing is sacred. Everything must be questioned
and reassessed in order to free our minds from the faith of tradition.Intellectual
growth demands that risks be taken and changes occur in political, sexual and aesthetic
alignments no matter who disapproves. We propose to go beyond all limits set or
prescribed by taste, morality or any other traditional value system shackling the
minds of men. We pass beyond and go over boundaries of millimeters, screens and
projectors to a state of expanded cinema.
We violate the command and law that we bore audiences to death in rituals of circumlocution
and propose to break all the taboos of our age by sinning as much as possible. There
will be blood, shame, pain and ecstasy, the likes of which no one has yet imagined.
None shall emerge unscathed. Since there is no afterlife, the only hell is the hell
of praying, obeying laws, and debasing yourself before authority figures, the only
heaven is the heaven of sin, being rebellious, having fun, fucking, learning new
things and breaking as many rules as you can. This act of courage is known as transgression.
We propose transformation through transgression - to convert, transfigure and transmute
into a higher plane of existence in order to approach freedom in a world full of
unknowing slaves.
- Nick Zedd" [from: NickZedd.com] |
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FILM CREDITS: |
Coordinated and produced by Nick Zedd in 1986
01. John Spencer - Shithaus
02. Lung Leg/Richard Kern - Worm Movie
03. Richard Klemann - A Suicide
04. Nick Zedd - The Bogus Man
05. Nick Zedd with Cassandra Stark & David Rutsala - Go To Hell
Co-director: David Rutsala
06. Erotic Psyche - Mutable Fire
07. Tommy Turner - Simonland
08. Richard Kern with Lung Leg, Karen Finely & David Wojnarowicz - You Killed
Me 1st
09. Richard Kern with Nick Zedd & Rick Strange - The King of Sex
10. Michael Wolfe - Nigger Night
11. Manuel Delanda - Judgement Day
12. Manuel Delanda - Ism Ism
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SLEEVE NOTES: |
"1 shameless hour an 40 deviant minutes
!!!
Characterized by a scathing penchant for assaulting audiences with images
of eroticism, pain, shame and ecstasy, a series of low budget super-8
filmes have been electrifying a small but supportive cult of cinema
enthusiasts bored with the academic dreariness of the established
structuralist avant garde.
To put it mildly, the Cinema of Transgression is the single most
exciting thing to have happened in the creative community in the last
six years and believe it or not, none of the journalists at the Village
Voice, East Village Eye, New York Talk or Details are even aware of its
existence. It's that underground. It's that new.
Thus, the Cinema of Transgression may, in the words of Orion Jeriko,
"remain invisible for as long as they want us to, for we know we exist
and one day the achievements of our generation will obliterate all
memory of their cheap and dreary reign. They are dying and we are just
being born."
The hordes of closed-minded conservatives running the media arts centers
and avant-garde literary organs around the country are losing their grip
and a birth this proud and noble can't be ignored for long.
In the words of Orion Jeriko, "We will soon be rendered visible for all
eternity by the greatness of our gestures." Time will tell Long live the
Cinema of Transgression.
Produced by Nick Zedd" |
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