Nick Zedd
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Nick Zedd, a New York City based filmmaker and author, coined the term Cinema of Transgression in 1985 to describe a loose-knit group of like-minded artists using shock value and humor in their work.
He has directed several movies, and he is the co-creator, with Rev Jen, of the television series Electra Elf (2004-) and the author of two books, Bleed (1992, Hanuman Books) and Totem of the Depraved, (1996, 2.13.61Publications) both of which are autobiographical.
Zedd toured with Lisa Crystal Carver's Suckdog Circus and exhibited his films in the early 1990s.
Important essays outlining Zedd's philosophy are the Cinema of Transgression Manifesto, published pseudonymously in the Underground Film Bulletin (1984-90) and The Theory of Xenomorphosis (1998). The Theory of Xenomorphosis explains the concept of the Union of Opposites in relation to audiovisual expression and the nature of external stimulae as an invasion of the nervous system, as well as methods of achieving transcendence from consensus reality through cognitive dissonance and heightened states of awareness attainable through persistence of vision. Film as a method of applied magic is addressed in these essays.
Additionally, Nick Zedd has acted in such films as The Manhattan Love Suicides (1985), What About Me (1993), Bubblegum (1995), and Jonas In The Desert (1997).
Directography
- Police State (1987)
- War Is Menstrual Envy (1992)
- Ecstasy In Entropy (1998)
- Lord of the Cockrings (2001)
- Thus Spake Zarathustra (2001)