"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." — Nick Zedd (The Manifesto of the Cinema of Transgression, 1985)
"Nick Zedd's films are legendary — he is a truly seminal figure in the New York underground."
— Jim Jarmusch
"Alienating myself in complete darkness to the abstract world of Nick Zedd’s bewildering pornography, I had a vision, and here’s what I saw: Plagues being dispensed at a hasty rate, sort of like a gushing bang from a hot spring geyser, or an ejaculating dick. About the time I’m viewing a tongue twirling around a tit with two nipples, the prophecy of deformity from man-made clones appears rather vividly. Blood dripping from a slit wrist, mostly onto the mildew caked floor, made me conclude that unexpected death and nuclear warfare are the least of our worries from human negligence. Nick Zedd has purposely portrayed that he is not a director. He is more of a prophet, clearly depicting his visions for the views of humanity"
— Chase Spring (Sleazegrinder)
"Nick Zedd makes violent, perverted art films from Hell — he’s my kind of director!"
— John Waters
“Zedd’s work is angry, disturbing, provocative: it is also consistent, original and more than less fearless. He is very much out of the underground and independent tradition….”
— Larry Kardish (MoMA)
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DOCUMENTARY FILMS FEATURING NICK ZEDD
Kill The Artist (2007)
Llik Your Idols (2007)
Blank City (2010)
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INTERVIEWS & ARTICLES OF INTEREST
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FREEZE FRAMES
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FILMS & EXCERPTS
Post Punk Films of Nick Zedd on Ubuweb
Abnormal: The Cinema of Nick Zedd Part 1
Abnormal: The Cinema of Nick Zedd Part 2
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"There will be
blood, shame, pain and ecstacy, 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 deasing ourself 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."
— Nick Zedd
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