Casandra Stark
Biography: Casandra Stark Mele is a New York City underground Icon, considered one of the "principal players in the Cinema of Transgression". She made all her films in the 1980s and early 1990s under the name Casandra Stark.
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We Are Not To Blame
1989-01-01
We Are Not To Blame
Overview: The apparent strangeness of two sisters becomes easily understood as they wreak appropriate revenge on one of their abusive husbands, by tying him up and imprisoning him on their rooftop. They slowly descend into madness as Stark wraps her head in bandages and paints her face white while clutching a baby doll.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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Wrecked on Cannibal Island
1986-01-01
Wrecked on Cannibal Island
Overview: Casandra and Natz pose as a couple locked in a domestic dispute documenting the futility of human relationships and the pointlessness of love.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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Abnormal: The Sinema of Nick Zedd
2001-01-23
Abnormal: The Sinema of Nick Zedd
Overview: THE SINEMA OF NICK ZEDD is the first DVD collection of the filmmaker’s works, and includes 11 of his films as well as outtakes, interviews, and rare concert footage of Zedd’s music project, the noise band Zyklon-B. Contains: Police State, The Bogus Man, Ecstasy in Entropy, Why do you Exist, Whoregasm, War is Menstual Envy (exerpt), Tom Thumb in the Land of the Giants, the Wild World of Lydia Lunch, Go to Hell, Zedd’s Collaborations: Thrust in Me (with Richard Kern), Go to Hell, I of K9 with outtakes and screentests from Why do you Exist and Ecstasy in Entropy, Concert Footage and Interview with Zedd’s Industrial noise band Zyklon Beatles, and a trailer for War is Menstrual Envy.
Genres: Action Fantasy Music Horror Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-01-23
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Go to Hell
1986-01-01
Go to Hell
Overview: A junkie wakes up on the streets and walks around, seeing a woman dressed in all white and a heroin addict shooting up.
Genres: Drama
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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X Is Y
1990-09-12
X Is Y
Overview: Experimental film consisting of images of young women handling automatic handguns and rifles.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-09-12
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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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Death of an Arabian Woman
1991-01-01
Death of an Arabian Woman
Overview: "Death of an Arabian Woman" (1991) originally 16mm, color, 12 min. With music by Motherhead Bug. Harkening back to her use of Catholic imagery in "Dead on my Arm," this film positions Stark as a wanderer, able to create life and in the company of religious prophets. The film is shot in Napoli and New York. "The Anarchists" with music by Missing Foundation and Menace Dement "Parades of Crazy" originally super-8, color and b/w with music by The Trees. Incorporates several processions from both Italy and New York revealing them as cathartic and transformative experiences.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-01-01
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