Nick Zedd
A controversial nihilistic artist that formed the Cinema of Trangression and recruited Richard Kern (see Kern for more details). The manifesto for Cinema of Trangression emphasizes shock with humor in order to overcome cinematic boredom and rigidity, and challenge all traditional forms of thought, authority and morality in order to achieve a 'higher plane' and break free. As such, this is very reminiscent of the Dada movement, except Dada was more comprehensive, intellectual and political in nature, whereas this feels more like an underground avant-garde sophomorically shocking movement directed against cinematic conventions. While Kern often went for the abstract and created 'transgressive art' with a point, Zedd's shorts feel either more confrontational in a personal or nihilistic way, or just masturbatory explorations of dark subjects. As such, I find him less interesting.
His shorts (which have also been released on DVD), include 'Police State' where an angry punk youth is unfairly and brutally treated by fascist policemen, 'Whoregasm' - a throbbing pounding mix of pornography, war scenes, mechanical motion, etc, 'Ecstasy in Entropy' - where old men and whores have a party that deteriorates into nasty perversions and hostility, 'Screen Test' which aims the camera at a collection of weirdos while they improvise for the camera, and a few other uninteresting pieces.
An exercise that looks like Zedd purposely tried to create the worst movie ever made. The plot is non-existant and wanders around from one boring scene to another, the acting is the worst imaginable with dull actors grinning while droning out boring lines, the story takes ideas from Frankenstein and Dracula, the editing and cinematography is dire, the costumes are from school projects and the set design consists of crayon drawings. This is not even fun in an Ed Wood way and calling it the worst movie ever made would only make bad movie fans flock to see it, so I won't.
A catholic father tries to keep his kids in line, one a transvestite who has sex with his dog and the other a female vocalist for a raucous punk band and cult leader of fans whom she incites to cannibalize, murder and castrate. After performing some genital mutilation and having her throat slit by her father, she takes it to the next level and wipes out humanity with radiation, only to be attacked by disco mutants. Sleaze, filth, gore, horrible filming and editing, and bad acting. John Waters would be proud.