Fingered (1986) [Movie] IMDb TMDB

Fingered

director: Richard Kern actor: Lydia Lunch / Lung Leg …

One of Richard Kern’s most ambitious works is Fingered (1986), whose sarcastic disclaimer says “although it is not our sole intention to shock, insult, or irritate, you have been warned that we are catering only to our own preferences.” The film came about following the criticism of Kern and Lydia Lunch's first collaborative venture: The Right Side of My Brain (1984).

Submit to Me (1986) [Movie] TMDB IMDb

Submit to Me

director: Richard Kern actor: Adrienne Altenhaus / Margo Day …

Cinema of Transgression pioneers and participants (Lydia Lunch, Lung Leg, Nick Zedd, etc.) perform a series of acts as they submit to director Richard Kern's camera. Originally created for DTNY acid parties; Submit to Me was eventually edited down to 10 minutes and given an accompanying score.

Guerillere Talks (1978) [Movie] TMDB IMDb

Guerillere Talks

director: Vivienne Dick actor: Anya Phillips / Lydia Lunch …

This experimental short consists of eight unedited rolls of super-8 film, each of which profiles an individual woman in real time. The women engage in everyday behaviour, such as playing pinball or reading a letter aloud.

Submit to Me Now (1987) [Movie] TMDB IMDb

Submit to Me Now

director: Richard Kern actor: Lung Leg / Amy Turner …

Oddballs dancing, leering at camera, guy shaving a nontraditional part of his body and man ripping his own throat out, woman stabbing herself to death.

Barbecue Death Squad From Hell (1986) [Movie] TMDB

Barbecue Death Squad From Hell

director: Michael Nesmith actor: Penn Jillette / Lydia Lunch …

Lydia Lunch and Penn & Teller jazz up the Jenkins' family picnic home movie, turning it into a backyard SOV slasher.

The Right Side of My Brain (1984) [Movie] TMDB IMDb

The Right Side of My Brain

director: Richard Kern actor: Lydia Lunch / Henry Rollins …

Lydia Lunch and Richard Kern's first collaborative effort, The Right Side of My Brain, is a glimpse into the world of unsatiable female lust, narrated by Lydia Lunch. The film was initially dismissed and dismayed by critics such as J. Hoberman, but the criticism of The Right Side of My Brain received only pushed the two to go one step further with Fingered (1986).

Mutantes: Punk Porn Feminism (2009) [Movie] WikiData TMDB IMDb

Mutantes

director: Virginie Despentes actor: Norma Jean Almodovar / Maria Beatty …

other title: Mutantes

Mutantes sheds light on a feminism that was little talked about in France. This documentary comprises of a series of interviews conducted in the USA, Paris and Barcelona, and documents from the archives about the political action of sex workers, queer activists and post-pornographic performances.

Vortex (1982) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData

Vortex

director: Scott B / Beth B actor: James Russo / Lydia Lunch …

A film noirish atmosphere is created to show detective Lunch (a popular underground musician and poet) plow her way through the plans of a corporate businessman who seeks government defense contracts through real "corporate wars" and the manipulation of politicians.

The Wild World of Lydia Lunch (1983) [Movie] TMDB IMDb

The Wild World of Lydia Lunch

director: Nick Zedd actor: Lydia Lunch / Nick Zedd

Shot entirely in Ireland and England on film stolen by Nick Zedd, the movie offers a rare glimpse into the unique private world of Lydia Lunch; The footage "narrated" by a break-up cassette sent from Lunch to Zedd.

Llik Your Idols (2007) [Movie] TMDB IMDb

Llik Your Idols

director: Angélique Bosio actor: Richard Hell / Richard Kern …

Discover the New York underground scene during the 80s and throw yourself into an exciting, anarchic and repulsive world that you won't forget.

The Offenders (1980) [Movie] TMDB IMDb

The Offenders

director: Beth B / Scott B actor: Scott B / Kirsten Bates …

A punk savage satire about a kidnapping.

Thanatopsis (1991) [Movie] TMDB IMDb

Thanatopsis

director: Beth B actor: Lydia Lunch

Beth B, in collaboration with legendary downtown performance artist/musician Lydia Lunch, creates a chilling yet poetic vision of despairing nihilism -- literally, a "meditation on death." In this noirishly rendered narrative, a woman negotiates the banalities of life.

She Had Her Gun All Ready (1978) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB IMDb

She Had Her Gun All Ready

director: Vivienne Dick actor: Pat Place / Lydia Lunch

other title: 她的枪已经准备好

Two women – one passive and resigned, the other aggressive and domineering – interact in various locations in New York city. The film explores the dynamic between them before ending with a showdown at the roller-coaster on Coney Island.

Rome '78 (1978) [Movie] TMDB IMDb

Rome '78

director: Jamie Nares actor: David McDermott / Eric Mitchell …

Nares mocks up Ancient Rome by shooting in faux-classical sites including Tribeca's American Thread Building, where a decrepit penthouse loft with a peeling-paint dome serves as an echoey stand-in for the imperial palace. The latter location required ingenuity: Posing as potential renters, Nares and associates asked the manager to show them the apartment, then unlocked the windows on the way out; a few hours later, they broke back into the space, full cast and crew in tow, to shoot the necessary scenes.

Beauty Becomes the Beast (1979) [Movie] TMDB IMDb

Beauty Becomes the Beast

director: Vivienne Dick actor: Adele Bertei / Lydia Lunch …

Beauty Becomes the Beast describes a random access world mediated by TV images and shards of popular culture. The film features a powerful performance by Lydia Lunch regressing from adulthood to childhood, hinting at a sexually abusive past. It concerns itself with the position of woman as subject and the way women experience patriarchal law and the heterosexual order.

Raw Nerves: A Lacanian Thriller (1980) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData

Raw Nerves: A Lacanian Thriller

director: Manuel DeLanda actor: Gerald M. Kline / M. Patrick Hughes …

other title: Raw Nerves

A noir mostly set in a bathroom stall and stairwell. A private dick trapped in a tight spot. A narrator searching for a way out of the story.

Black Box (1979) [Movie] NeoDB IMDb TMDB WikiData

Black Box

director: Scott B / Beth B actor: Bob Mason / Lydia Lunch …

other title: 黑盒子

An innocent youth is abducted and dragged down into a dystopian nightmare where teenage Lydia Lunch throws him into the Black Box.

Lydia Lunch: Malicious Intent (1994) [Movie] TMDB

Lydia Lunch: Malicious Intent

actor: Lydia Lunch

Collection of live spoken word performances by Lydia Lunch.

Punking Out (1978) [Movie] TMDB IMDb

Punking Out

director: Maggi Carson / Juliusz Kossakowski … actor: Stiv Bators / Cheetah Chrome …

The film documents the beginning of the punk rock movement in New York City at CBGB's, a punk night club, and the lifestyle that revolves around this scene. It presents a sometimes shocking look at the attitudes and motivations behind the movement through interviews with outspoken club-goers and band members of the Ramones, Richard Hell and the Voidoids, and the Dead Boys.

Mondo New York (1988) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData

Mondo New York

director: Harvey Keith actor: Joey Arias / Rick Aviles …

A young woman wanders around New York City and stumbles across a number of strange characters and settings that represent the "underground" areas of the city. She sees stand up comedy in Central Park, a prostitution auction, a voodoo ceremony, an S&M club, and a number of very interesting performance artists. These are just a few of the sights and sounds of New York that she encounters.