Nick Zedd Biography

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Nick Zedd (pseudonym, born James Harding May 8, 1958 in Baltimore, Maryland) is 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 super-low-budget movies, and he is the co-creator, with Rev Jen, of the public access 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 super-low-budget films as the Super-8 film The Manhattan Love Suicides (1985), What About Me (1993), Bubblegum (1995), Jonas In The Desert (1997), and Troma Films' Terror Firmer (1999).

Filmography

• They Eat Scum (1979)
  
• "The Bogus Man" (1980)
  
• Geek Maggot Bingo (1983)
  
• "The Wild World of Lydia Lunch" (1983"
  
• "Thrust In Me" (1984)
  
• "Kiss Me Goodbye" (1985)
  
• "Go To Hell" (1985)
  
• Police State (1987)
  
• Whoregasm (1988)
  
• War Is Menstrual Envy (1992)
  
• "Smiling Faces Tell Lies" (1995)
  
• "Why Do You Exist" (1998)
  
• "Tom Thumb in the Land of the Giants" (1999)
  
• Ecstasy In Entropy (1999)
  
• "I of K9" (2001)
  
• "Elf Panties: The Movie" (2001)
  
• Lord of the Cockrings (2001)
  
• Thus Spake Zarathustra (2001)
  
• "I Was a Quality of Life Violation" (2002)
  
• "Electra Elf: Dance With the Devil" (2003)
  
• "Electra Elf: Maggot on a Hot Tin Roof" (2003)
  
• "Electra Elf: Old Man & the Sea Monkey" (2003)
  
• "Electra Elf: Great Shrunken Expectations" (2004)
  
• "Electra Elf: Roof Party" (2004)
  
• "Electra Elf: I, Nauseus" (2004)
  
• "Electra Elf: Hellbound Heiresses" (2004)
  
• "Electra Elf: Deadly Little Trees" (2005)
  
• "Electra Elf: Triumph of the Ill" (2005)
  
• "Electra Elf: Of Lice And Men" (2005)
  
• "Electra Elf: The Beginning Parts One & Two" (2005)
  
• "Electra Elf: Don't Worry Bee Happy" (2006)
  
• "Electra Elf: Vile Buddies" (2006)
  
• "Electra Elf: Battle of the Bands" (2006)
  

Further reading

• Nick Zedd's homepage
  
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