1. Nick Zedd was an American filmmaker, author, and painter based in Mexico City.
19 Facts About Nick Zedd
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Nick Zedd coined the term Cinema of Transgression in 1985 to describe a loose-knit group of like-minded filmmakers and artists using shock value and black humor in their work.
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Under numerous pen names, Zedd edited and wrote the Underground Film Bulletin which publicized the work of these filmmakers.
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Nick Zedd was born in Takoma Park, Maryland, on January 25,1956.
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Nick Zedd moved to New York in 1976 to study at Brooklyn's Pratt Institute and the School of Visual Arts.
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Nick Zedd directed several super-low-budget feature-length movies, including They Eat Scum, Geek Maggot Bingo, War Is Menstrual Envy and numerous short films.
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Nick Zedd served as director of photography on another TV series called Chop Chop, produced by Nate Hill.
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Additionally, Nick Zedd acted in such low-budget movies as the Super 8 film Manhattan Love Suicides, What About Me, Bubblegum, Jonas in the Desert, Terror Firmer, and Thus Spake Zarathustra.
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Nick Zedd appeared in the documentaries Llik Your Idols and Blank City.
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Nick Zedd is the author of two autobiographical books, Bleed: Part One and Totem of the Depraved, as well as the self-published novel From Entropy to Ecstasy.
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Nick Zedd contributed to the anthologies Up Is Up But So Is Down, Captured and Low Rent.
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In 2013, Nick Zedd published The Extremist Manifesto, an essay denouncing contemporary art and the class structure that promotes it while announcing the emergence of the Extremist Art movement in Mexico City, which sought to subvert the edicts of established art institutions and curatorial ideologues.
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At a screening at the New Museum in New York, Nick Zedd was presented with the Acker Award for Lifetime Achievement, a tribute given to "members of the avant garde arts community who have made outstanding contributions in their discipline in defiance of convention, or else served their fellow writers and artists in outstanding ways".
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In 2014, Nick Zedd exhibited three motion pictures at the Museum of Modern Art in New York as part of a posthumous retrospective of films by Christoph Schlingensief, who had cited Nick Zedd as a major influence on his work.
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Later in 2014, Nick Zedd presented his first public exhibition of paintings in Mexico City, in a group show curated by Aldo Flores at Salon des Aztecas Gallery in Coyoacan.
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An outsider artist throughout his life, Nick Zedd never enjoyed commercial success with his films.
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Nick Zedd died from complications from cirrhosis of the liver, cancer, and hepatitis C, in Mexico City, on February 27,2022, at the age of 63.
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Nick Zedd was survived by his partner of 15 years, Monica Casanova, as well as a son and a step-daughter.
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Founder of the Cinema of Transgression movement and part of the late 1970s and early 1980s No Wave group of underground filmmakers in New York City's Lower East Side, Nick Zedd exerted a significant influence over a number of directors, from Christoph Schlingensief to Quentin Tarantino.