Cinema of Transgression/ No Wave

FINGERED 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.

Loosely 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.

Four shorts from Richard Kern: Stray Dogs; Woman at Wheel; Thrust in me; and I Hate you now.

A 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.

Zedd 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.

A look at a conspiracy involving the United States president.

An 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.

Barbie 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.

Set 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.

A 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.

A No-Wave erotic horror exploring the aesthetics of kink, sadism, mutilation and suicide.

In 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.

Shots 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.

A southern family meet their end at the hands of a philosophical serial killer.

A 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.

PIERCE 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.

A fan follows an artist home and tries to get his attention by literally coming apart.

A 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.

A punk savage satire about a kidnapping.

A 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.

A 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.