Movies by Lydia Lunch

Kill Your Idols

Kill Your Idols

A 2004 documentary on thirty years of alternative rock 'n roll in NYC.Documenting the history from the genuine authenticity of No Wave to the current generation of would be icons and true innovators seeing to represent New York City in the 21st century

Guerillere Talks

Guerillere Talks

This experimental short consists of eight unedited rolls of super-8 film, each of which profiles an individual woman in real time. The women engage in everyday behaviour, such as playing pinball or reading a letter aloud.

NYC Foetus

NYC Foetus

A documentary about composer/producer/performer JG Thirlwell and his musical alter-egos, including Foetus, Steroid Maximus and Manorexia. Featuring interviews with Thirlwell, Matt Johnson (The The), Alex Hacke (Neubauten), Michael Gira (Swans), Richard Kern, Lydia Lunch and more.

Abnormal: The Sinema of Nick Zedd

Abnormal: The Sinema of Nick Zedd

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 ...

Put More Blood Into the Music

Put More Blood Into the Music

PBS produced documentary in two parts: the first is dedicated to saxophonist and composer John Zorn; the second is about Sonic Youth at the height of their powers in 1988.

Mutantes

Mutantes

Mutantes sheds light on a feminism that was little talked about in France. This documentary comprises of a series of interviews conducted in the USA, Paris and Barcelona, and documents from the archives about the political action of sex workers, queer activists and post-pornographic performances.

She Had Her Gun All Ready

She Had Her Gun All Ready

Two women – one passive and resigned, the other aggressive and domineering – interact in various locations in New York city. The film explores the dynamic between them before ending with a showdown at the roller-coaster on Coney Island.

Lydia Lunch: Video Hysterie: 1978 - 2006

Lydia Lunch: Video Hysterie: 1978 - 2006

This fascinating and retrospective look at the music of the outspoken and multitalented Lydia Lunch represents every stage of her varied career, with featured songs such as "I Woke Up Screaming" from her Teenage Jesus and the Jerks days. Other songs spanning the decades in this collection include "Freud in Flop," "Sorry for Behaving So Badly," "Dead River," "Solo Mystico," "Summon," "Violence Is the Sport of God" and many more.

L7: Pretend We're Dead

L7: Pretend We're Dead

A real time journey witnessing the rise, fall, and ultimate redemption of the fierce feminist pioneers of American grunge punk: L7.

DANCE OF THE DEAD CHILDREN

DANCE OF THE DEAD CHILDREN

Rome '78

Rome '78

Nares mocks up Ancient Rome by shooting in faux-classical sites like Grant's Tomb and Tribeca's American Thread Building, where a decrepit penthouse loft with a peeling-paint dome serves as an echoey stand-in for the imperial palace. The latter location required ingenuity: Posing as potential renters, Nares and associates asked the manager to show them the apartment, then unlocked the windows on the way out; a few hours later, they broke back into the space, full cast and crew in tow, to shoot the necessary scenes.

Submit to Me Now

Submit to Me Now

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.

Visiting Desire

Visiting Desire

Complete strangers meet in a room to act out their sexual desires.

Barbecue Death Squad From Hell

Barbecue Death Squad From Hell

Lydia Lunch and Penn & Teller jazz up the Jenkins' family picnic home movie, turning it into a backyard SOV slasher.

Llik Your Idols

Llik Your Idols

Discover the New York underground scene during the 80s and throw yourself into an exciting, anarchic and repulsive world that you won't forget.

Beauty Becomes the Beast

Beauty Becomes the Beast

Beauty Becomes the Beast describes a random access world mediated by TV images and shards of popular culture. The film features a powerful performance by Lydia Lunch regressing from adulthood to childhood, hinting at a sexually abusive past. It concerns itself with the position of woman as subject and the way women experience patriarchal law and the heterosexual order.

The Offenders

The Offenders

A punk savage satire about a kidnapping.

Raw Nerves: A Lacanian Thriller

Raw Nerves: A Lacanian Thriller

A noir mostly set in a bathroom stall and stairwell. A private dick trapped in a tight spot. A narrator searching for a way out of the story.

Like Dawn to Dust

Like Dawn to Dust

Lydia Lunch laments the difficulty of relationships in the wilds of Connemara, Ireland.