Filmmakers

Nick Zedd

Birth: May 8, 1958

Official Website: NickZedd.com; Live Journal

Major Works: Electra Elf (2005 – ) (TV show; ongoing)
War Is Menstrual Envy (1992)
Whoregasm (1988)
Geek Maggot Bingo (1983)
They Eat Scum (1979)

Notes: Founder of the Cinema of Transgression and writer of the movement’s manifesto.

Published and wrote for the Underground Film Bulletin in the ’80s under the pseudonym Orion Jeriko.

Has written an autobiography called Bleed.

Other Resources: IMDB: Profile
Bad Lit: Posts
New York Waste: Interview
Sleaze Grinder: Interview

Video: Nick Zedd and the Cinema of Transgression

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Underground Film Feedback (3 Notes)

  1. [...] term “underground film” started to gain prominence again when Nick Zedd — using the pen name Orion Jeriko — started publishing the Underground Film Bulletin in [...]

    Posted by What’s An Underground Film, Anyway? | Bad Lit | January 12, 2010, 6:02 am

  2. [...] in ’80s and ’90s, as declared by the movement’s founder and chief architect Nick Zedd in his autobiography Bleed. Moritsugu’s first film is the 1986 short Mommy Mommy [...]

    Posted by Underground Film Chain Gang: From Altamont Now To Hans Richter | Bad Lit | August 13, 2010, 8:33 am

  3. [...] some other painfully obvious omissions, e.g. Nick Zedd, Richard Kern and Jeff Krulik, Hall introduces us to some really interesting films and filmmakers, [...]

    Posted by The Encyclopedia Of Underground Movies | Bad Lit | August 21, 2010, 7:39 pm

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