Lung Leg
Biography: Lung Leg is an American pin-up girl and actress perhaps best known for appearing on the cover of the Sonic Youth album EVOL. During the 1980s, she gained fame as a model and star of films made by the transgressive movement.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: July 08, 1963
Deathday: N/A
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Fingered
1986-08-19
Fingered
Overview: One of Richard Kern’s most ambitious works is Fingered (1986), whose sarcastic disclaimer says “although it is not our sole intention to shock, insult, or irritate, you have been warned that we are catering only to our own preferences.” The film came about following the criticism of Kern and Lydia Lunch's first collaborative venture: The Right Side of My Brain (1984).
Genres: Crime Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-08-19
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You Killed Me First
1985-01-01
You Killed Me First
Overview: Elizabeth bristles at the religious directives of her parents, asserting her right to personhood outside demure hairstyles and turkey dinners, constructing voodoo dolls and entertaining other manners of dark drawing in her dank emo-den. When confronted with the humanity and hypocrisy of her tormentors, the young antihero vanquishes their belief systems (and bodies) asserting, "You killed me first!"
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-01-01
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Llik Your Idols
2007-07-30
Llik Your Idols
Overview: Discover the New York underground scene during the 80s and throw yourself into an exciting, anarchic and repulsive world that you won't forget.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-07-30
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Death Valley '69
1986-01-01
Death Valley '69
Overview: Death Valley '69 was the first music video by Sonic Youth. The video features the majority of the band in various states of bloody dismemberment interlaced with live footage of the band.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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Where Evil Dwells
1985-09-27
Where Evil Dwells
Overview: Loosely based on an infamous 1984 Long Island murder case involving Satan-worshiping, teenage drug freaks (Knights of the Black Circle), David Wojnarowicz and Tommy Turner’s Where Evil Dwells is a low-budget D.I.Y. movie that walks the jagged lines between splatter flick, experimental film and transgressive art. The original footage was destroyed in a fire and the only footage that survived is this 28 minute preview that was put together for the Downtown New York Film Festival in 1985.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-09-27
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IDn4
1991-11-13
IDn4
Overview: I am so endlessly alone. Whats my illusions, whats my odds, and illusions have to be killed, I don't have more time to destroy. Is my loneliness real and is my longing about what? Then who are this people?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-11-13
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Submit to Me
1986-01-01
Submit to Me
Overview: Cinema of Transgression pioneers and participants (Lydia Lunch, Lung Leg, Nick Zedd, etc.) perform a series of acts as they submit to director Richard Kern's camera. Originally created for DTNY acid parties; Submit to Me was eventually edited down to 10 minutes and given an accompanying score.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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Submit to Me Now
1987-01-01
Submit to Me Now
Overview: Oddballs dancing, leering at camera, guy shaving a nontraditional part of his body and man ripping his own throat out, woman stabbing herself to death.
Genres: Horror Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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The Hardcore Collection
2012-02-21
The Hardcore Collection
Overview: This DVD features 13 provocative short films by Richard Kern. Color & B&W film shorts with Lydia Lunch, Henry Rollins and more. Includes Death Valley 69 , The Right Side Of My Brain, You Killed Me First, The Bitches, The Sewing Circle, X is Y, Fingered, Horoscope, Submit to Me Now, My Nightmare, Manhattan Loves Suicides, Submit to Me, and Evil Cameraman. Music from Sonic Youth, Cop Shoot Cop, J.G. Thirwell, Butthole Surfers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-02-21
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Worm Movie
1985-01-01
Worm Movie
Overview: Experimental short film starring Lung Leg and a worm.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-01-01
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Blank City
2011-04-06
Blank City
Overview: In the years before Ronald Reagan took office, Manhattan was in ruins. But true art has never come from comfort, and it was precisely those dire circumstances that inspired artists like Jim Jarmusch, Lizzy Borden, and Amos Poe to produce some of their best works. Taking their cues from punk rock and new wave music, these young maverick filmmakers confronted viewers with a stark reality that stood in powerful contrast to the escapist product being churned out by Hollywood.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-04-06
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D.I.Y. or Die: How to Survive as an Independent Artist
2002-01-01
D.I.Y. or Die: How to Survive as an Independent Artist
Overview: This documentary features interviews with Ian MacKaye (Fugazi), J Mascis (Dinosaur jr.), John John Jesse (Demonic Erotic painter), Jim Rose (Jim Rose Sideshow), Jim Thirwell (Foetus), Lydia Lunch, Mike Watt (Minutemen), Richard Kern (Filmmaker), Ron Ashet
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-01-01
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Kill the Artist
2007-01-01
Kill the Artist
Overview: Reveals the extreme measures lawmakers and critics go through to censor avant-garde artists, who walk the fine line between art, perversion, religion and devious sexual behavior.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-01-01
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Sewer Baby
2005-01-01
Sewer Baby
Overview: Inside the moldy walls of a ruined castle, an insane scientist indulges in forms of ritual PSYCHIC TRAUMA The otherworldly experiments invoke GHOSTS FROM STRANGE DIMENSIONS who PERFORM SURGICAL BRAIN transplants via daytime television.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-01-01
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The Hagstone Demon
2011-09-27
The Hagstone Demon
Overview: Douglas Elmore is an alcoholic writer and caretaker haunted by visions of his dead wife and pursued by supernatural forces bent on revenge for his past deeds. When tenants start turning up dead in the hallways and stairwells of his brownstone apartment building, Douglas suspects a strange but sexually alluring homeless prostitute named Karna who sleeps in his basement by day and prowls the empty city by night. But as the bodies pile up, Douglas is torn between his growing obsession with Karna and the threat of becoming a prime suspect in a murder investigation. Douglas must find the origin of the evil residing in the old Hagstone building before the secrets of his past return to destroy him.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-09-27
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Mutilated Movies
2007-09-11
Mutilated Movies
Overview: A feature-length anthology style throwback movie in the blood vein of old time TV horror hosts, insane cinema, GORE, monsters and weird creatures from other planets! ZOMBIES, GHOULS, DEMON BATS, AND MUTINGO, THE MUTANT FLAMINGO. With buckets of spurting blood, guts, evil possessed ventriloquist dolls from hell, popped out eyeballs, real severed goat heads, giant chicken women, werewolves, zombified puking punk rockers, exploding heads, disgustingly cool latex special effects, and a few sets of very nice boobs!
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-09-11
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