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.

Tessa Hughes-Freeland Nymphomania
Co. dir. by Holly Adams - 1993 - 08:53
Starring Holly Adams and Bob Mook

Tessa Hughes-Freeland Baby Doll
1982 - 03:16 - Featuring Feme and Irene

M Henry Jones Unknown 1

M Henry Jones Unknown 2

M Henry Jones Soul City

Beth B Stigmata
1991 - 38:13
Featuring Joseph Budenholzer, Kelly Considine, Johnny Lanz, Miriam McDonough, Brian Moran, Laura Miles Wright

Jeri Cain Rossi Black Hearts Bleed Red
1992 - 15:36
-A stark adaptation of Flannery O'Connor's short story A Good Man Is Hard To Find. Starring Joe Coleman, Zemlya Vaudaux, Miss Xanna Don't, Tod Allen, Nathaniel Roman, Dana Hatch, Marya Zoya Greene, Tommy Turner.

David Wojnarowicz & Tommy Turner Where Evil Dwells
1985 - 28:33
Loosely based on the story of the "Satan" teen killer Ricky Kasso. Starring Joe Coleman, Rockets Redglare, Natz, Nancy Coleman, Baby Gregor, Scott Werner and others.

Kembra Pfahler Cornella; The Story of a Burning Bush
1985 - 05:29
Film-as-performance from actress, artist, filmmaker, and co-founder of rock band Kembra Pfahler The Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black (Spelling Bee by TVHOKB (MP3)).

Jon Moritsugu Mommy, Mommy, Where's My Brain?
1986 - 09:20

Richard Kern My Nightmare
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Starring Richard Kern and Susan McNamara

Richard Kern Thrust in Me
Co. dir. By Nick Zedd - 1985 - 08:12
Starring Nick Zedd, Don Houston, Margo Day and Dee Finley