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- DirectorRichard KernStarsLydia LunchEmilio CubeiroMarty NationFINGERED is an art film that's constructed like a regular movie. Lydia Lunch plays a phone sex operator/prostitute that gets together with a guy she's been on the phone with. After a semi-hardcore sex scene, the violence begins. The man cuts someone's throat for looking at Lydia's character, then they go for a drive. The two abduct a hitch hiker and rape her in a junkyard.
- DirectorTommy TurnerDavid WojnarowiczStarsJoe ColemanNancy ColemanBaby GregorLoosely based on an infamous 1984 Long Island murder case involving Satan-worshiping, teenage drug freak Ricky Kasso who murdered his 17-year-old friend, Gary Lauwers in Northport, Long Island by stabbing him repeatedly.
- DirectorRichard KernStarsWilliam RiceDavid WojnarowiczNick ZeddFour shorts from Richard Kern: Stray Dogs; Woman at Wheel; Thrust in me; and I Hate you now.
- DirectorRichard KernNick ZeddStarsNick ZeddDon HoustonMagot DamianA woman contemplates suicide in her NY apartment. Her boyfriend returns home to find her corpse in the bath and takes his sexual pleasure from it.
- DirectorNick ZeddStarsNick ZeddRockets RedglareFlip CrowleyZedd is minding his business, when he is stopped by a cop who accuses him of being a junkie. After a short argument he is beaten and dragged to the police station. At the station he is interrogated by a detective (Rockets Redglare) and the police chief. After being beaten and tortured several more times, Nick Zedd's character mutilates himself with some hedge cutters.
- DirectorNick ZeddStarsDavid McDermottLawrence Oliver CherryA look at a conspiracy involving the United States president.
- DirectorEla TroyanoNick ZeddStarsNick Zedd
- DirectorNick ZeddStarsBrenda BergmanRustyn BirchBobAn agit-prop edutainment ho down featuring a bevy of warrior lapdancers struggling to overthrow corporate state capitalism and rancid criminal globalisation through amateur wrestling, gun juggling and anarchist debate.
- DirectorTina L'HotskyStarsTina L'HotskyBarbie returns from shopping carrying groceries. She takes her groceries out of the bag and takes out a little Barbie doll which she then fries and eats.
- DirectorNick ZeddStarsKembra PfahlerAnnie SprinkleSteven OddoSet in a post-apocalyptic future, the story finds a handful of ragged survivors attempting to communicate with dolphins, while another cadre of survivors have made it their crusade to destroy all the world's religions.
- DirectorRichard KernStarsCameron HeathPeter HeathJon Miedzik
- DirectorRichard KernStarsAdrienne AltenhausNick ZeddGary RayA woman takes each of her boyfriends - one poor and one rich- for a drive in her new car. Each argues with her and insists on taking the wheel. She beats one of them up, before crashing into a group of youths and, finally, a wall.
- DirectorRichard KernStarsAdrienne AltenhausMagot DamianCruella De VilleA No-Wave erotic horror exploring the aesthetics of kink, sadism, mutilation and suicide.
- DirectorRichard KernStarsNick ZeddErica CaimAudrey RoseIn the first half of the movie Nick Zedd has a rough sexual playtime with two young women in In the second half, whilst dressed in drag, he attempts to fellate a too-drunk Rick Strange.
- DirectorRichard KernShots of walking down 42nd Street showing storefronts including everything from Texas Fried Chicken to 25cent porn arcades. In between shots of the street are silly acts of violence such as a man being repeatedly stabbed in the eye with a skewer. This certain act is silly because the man has ground beef sitting on his eye and the skewer doesn't even touch that.
- DirectorJeri Cain RossiStarsColin CheerJoe ColemanXanna DontA southern family meet their end at the hands of a philosophical serial killer.
- DirectorTessa Hughes-FreelandStarsHolly AdamsBob MookA film exploring the nature of sex and gender roles. Nymph a fairy walks and dances naked through a woodland before being pursued by Pan an evil spirit with an oversized penis.
- DirectorRichard KernStarsAudrey RosePIERCE is a short film of a real woman (friend of director Kern) getting her nipples pierced. The camera goes in really close so you know it's actually happening.
- DirectorRichard KernStarsWilliam RiceDavid WojnarowiczRobin RenziA fan follows an artist home and tries to get his attention by literally coming apart.
- DirectorRichard KernStarsLydia LunchNorman WestbergBrian MoranA woman goes through a series of sexual assignations that involve varying degrees of violence. A voiceover provides her musings on sex, violence, power and control.
- DirectorBeth BScott BStarsLydia LunchBob MasonChiara Smith
- DirectorBeth BScott BStarsScott BKirsten BatesAdele BerteiA punk savage satire about a kidnapping.
- DirectorBeth BScott BStarsJames RussoLydia LunchWilliam RiceA 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.
- DirectorCasandra StarkStarsJack NatzCasandra StarkA young man and woman have a dispute over housework which escalates into violence. After a brief angry period of separation they reunite in an unexpected way on the rooftop of their apartment building.
- DirectorCasandra StarkStarsLaura Mae JessonRichard KernCasandra StarkA woman flees her abusive partner to go live with her artist sister. When the partner follows her, the two sisters exact revenge and descend into madness.
- DirectorJon MoritsuguPart AC/DC, part Jacques Derrida. An experimental film made as a response to the critical theory aspects of the filmmakers degree and academic film criticism.
- DirectorRichard KernStarsRichard KernSusan McNamaraA photographer graphically masturbates to a sexual fantasy of his model, but the real thing shows up and is not as uninhibited as he would like.
- DirectorRichard KernStarsAnnabelle DaviesLinda SerbuCharles WingTwo girls are in a sparsely furnished apartment scantily clad and being generally unpleasant to each other. A guy comes in, and they start to engage.
- DirectorRichard KernStarsTom TurnerAmy TurnerBobAbout a deformed guy and his girlfriend.
- DirectorRichard KernStarsPeter HeathJon MiedzikCameron HeathZombie Hunger is an experimental short film depicting a group of people shooting up and then vomiting.
- DirectorNick ZeddStarsLydia LunchNick ZeddA filmmaker follows his girlfriend around London with a camera featuring narration from a cassette tape she made for him to break-up the relationship.
- DirectorJoe ChristStarsJoe ChristAmanda B. JamesMandy Pack
- DirectorJoe ChristStarsJoe ChristDavid Aaron ClarkLes JohnsonJoe Christ's video freakshow of professional scarification, genital mutilation, and all-around physical debasement.
- DirectorJoe ChristStarsCathy CowgirlRon EnglishSusan FerrisA Drug addict begins hearing voices on his television and goes on a killing rampage, looking up the old members of a hippie cult he belonged to.
- DirectorJoe ChristStarsJoe ChristMary LeohrDana Wisdom
- DirectorNick ZeddStarsGeoffrey CareyDonna DeathRoy DillardThe rise, fall and rise of a teen death-rock idol.
- DirectorJudith BarryRichard KernSonic YouthStarsSonic YouthLydia LunchLung LegMusic video of Sonic Youth with Lydia Lunch spliced with scenes featuring Lung Leg.
- DirectorRichard KernStarsTomoyoJacqui OLinda SerbuExperimental film consisting of images of young women handling automatic handguns and rifles.
- DirectorRichard KernStarsJap AnneIce QueenLittle LindaKern plays himself as he uses his models to fulfilling his sadistic control fantasies with mixed results.
- DirectorRichard KernStarsSonic YouthLinda SerbuKaren DisneySonic Youth performs in the music video "Scooter + Jinx (Moneylove)" from the album "Goo" recorded for Geffen Records. An instrumental by Sonic Youth plays, as a photographer offers a model money in order to pose nude. Photographs are taken before the photographer gives the model a massage.
- DirectorRichard KernStarsLinda Serbu
- DirectorRichard KernStarsAnnabelle DaviesA short film by underground film-maker and photographer Richard Kern, featuring Annabelle Lee. This movie came from his Death Trip collection.
- DirectorRichard KernStarsHolly AdamsSqueak WilentzBob MookA young woman reads her horoscope at work, goes home, and fantasizes that she is being fought over by two nude men.
- DirectorRichard KernA Catholic student has a serious crisis of faith.
- DirectorRichard KernStarsCarrieKembra PfahlerLisa ResurrectionA young woman decides to have the lips of her labia sewn together by a punk-rock woman, whilst her other girlfriend holds her hand for support.
- DirectorBeth BScott BStarsJohn AhearnColeen FitzgibbonMary FogartyA Nietzschian parable on the fate of innocence, THE TRAP DOOR follows the mishaps of Jeremy (John Ahearn) as he is fired by his boss (Jenny Holzer), gets laughed out of court by Judge Gary Indiana, loses his girlfriend to sleazy Richard Prince, is hustled by prospective employer (Bill Rice) and mauled by predatory bird-women. Finally, he seeks the help of a shrink (the legendary Jack Smith) who turns out to be the most demented of all.
- DirectorNick ZeddStarsRobert AndrewsRichard HellBrenda BergmanA mad doctor creates life while murderous prostitutes are on the prowl and vampires terrorize the town. The Rawhide Kid will save the day.
- DirectorNick ZeddStarsKajtek ZeddSteen Birger JørgensenGritt Uldall-JessenA bizarre and prophetic adventure in which a young boy is chased by a masked phantom holding a severed arm in a graveyard. Images of twin towers in which the boy enters and falls surrounded by incandescent panels of light and debris seem to prophesy the World Trade Center disaster. An man with one arm appears and is handed the severed arm by the phantom. Then a giant woman appears enveloping the boy. An unsettling and delerious apocalyptic atmosphere pervades the movie, designed as a trailer for a "film of the future."
- DirectorDavid RutsalaNick ZeddStarsDavid RutsalaCasandra StarkNick ZeddA junkie wakes up on the streets and walks around, seeing a woman dressed in all white and a heroin addict shooting up.
- DirectorBeth BStarsIda ApplebroogJonathan AuerbachTodd AyoungA number of somber talking heads frankly describe their most personal and perverse attitudes on sex, violence, and other family matters.
- DirectorSelene KapsaskiStarsSophia DisgraceRahel KapsaskiLee Mark JonesPoverty stricken lovers Eden and Matilda have enough trouble just getting through the days, but when Eden buys a pet spider the real troubles start.
- DirectorNick Zedd