
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
[...] term “underground film” started to gain prominence again when Nick Zedd — using the pen name Orion Jeriko — started publishing the Underground Film Bulletin in [...]
[...] 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 [...]
[...] some other painfully obvious omissions, e.g. Nick Zedd, Richard Kern and Jeff Krulik, Hall introduces us to some really interesting films and filmmakers, [...]