Week 9 (Aug 16 – 22) – Cinema of Transgression: “none shall emerge unscathed” -Nick Zedd
A BDSM video made for parties and edited down to ten minutes, this hits you with a dangerous-looking Lydia Lunch, tops that with Lung Leg holding a knife and a Butthole Surfers soundtrack. Women wrestle in pools of gore. Guys shaving themselves. It gets more and more strobing and red as time goes on, taking over your mind, making you wonder if you’d even survive one of these parties and that it had to feel like the end of the world in 1986 New York City. At the same time, this feels like it was made forever ago, and it may as well have been shot yesterday.
I used to stare at pictures of Lung Leg in Kern’s books and try to will her into existence. She would have killed me.
You can watch this on YouTube.
