You killed me first the cinema of transgression ; [Karen Finley ... ; anlässlich der Ausstellung You Killed Me First. The Cinema of Transgression, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, 19. Februar - 9. April 2012

Emerging from New York's Lower East Side in the city's early 1980s No Wave scene, the "Cinema of Transgression" aimed at outright shock, provocation and confrontation. Young filmmakers such as Richard Kern, Lydia Lunch, Kembra Pfahler, Casandra Stark and Nick Zedd produced nihilistic, nightmarish scenarios of violence, angst and erotic excess that willfully transcended all moral or aesthetic boundaries. Sometimes shot with stolen camera equipment, and flaunting their lo-fi credentials, the low-budget films of the self-proclaimed "Cinema of Transgression" presented analyses of a Lower East Side defined by criminality, brutality, drugs, AIDS, sex and excess. __You Killed Me First__ is published on the occasion of the first exhibition on the Cinema of Transgression. Film Front Cover 1 Back Cover 2 Front Matter 3 Table of Contents 5 You Killed Me First: The Cinema of Transgression - Susanne Pfeffer 7 Deutsch 8 English 9 The Cinema of Transgression Manifesto - Nick Zedd 11 Deutsch 12 English 18 Spitting with a Mouth Full of Black Stones - Jack Sargeant 19 Deutsch 19 English 28 Cinema of Transgression: Reprisal in Rewind - Carlo McCormick 35 Deutsch 36 English 39 The Films 43 Death Valley '69 (1986) - Richard Kern 43 Deutsch 46 English 47 Police State (1987) - Nick Zedd 49 Deutsch 50 English 50 Nymphomania (1993) - Tessa Hughes-Freeland and Holly Adams 55 Deutsch 58 English 58 Fingered (1986) - Richard Kern 59 Deutsch 62 English 62 Rat Trap (1986) - Tommy Turner and Tessa Hughes-Freeland 65 Deutsch 68 English 68 X Is Y (1990) - Richard Kern 69 Deutsch 69 English 70 The Manhattan Love Suicides: Stray Dogs (1985) - Richard Kern 75 Deutsch 75 English 75 The Manhattan Love Suicides: Woman at the Wheel (1985) - Richard Kern 79 Deutsch 79 English 81 The Manhattan Love Suicides: Thrust in Me (1985) - Richard Kern & Nick Zedd 83 Deutsch 85 English 86 The Manhattan Love Suicides: I Hate You Now (1985) - Nick Zedd 90 Deutsch 91 English 91 Baby Doll (1982) - Tessa Hughes-Freeland 93 Deutsch 95 English 96 Submit to me Now (1987) - Richard Kern 99 Deutsch 101 English 103 Simonland (1984) - Tommy Turner 105 Deutsch 105 English 108 Horoscope (1991) - Richard Kern 111 Deutsch 113 English 114 Where Evil Dwells (1985) - David Wojnarowicz & Tommy Turner 115 Deutsch 118 English 118 You Killed Me First (1985 - Richard Kern 121 Deutsch 121 English 123 The Sewing Circle (1992) - Richard Kern 125 Deutsch 128 English 128 A Fire in my Belly Excerpt (1986/87) - David Wojnarowicz 129 Deutsch 132 English 132 Go to Hell (1986) - Nick Zedd, Casandra Stark and David Rutsala 135 Deutsch 138 English 138 Fear of Disclosure: Psycho-Social Implications of HIV Revelation (1989) - David Wojnarowicz & Phil Zwickler 139 Deutsch 142 English 142 The Bogus Man (1980) - Nick Zedd 143 Deutsch 146 English 146 Rushes on Death: On David Wojnarowicz - Sylvère Lotringer 149 Deutsch 150 English 156 Notes on the Work of Nick Zedd - Jonas Me kas 163 Deutsch 164 English 165 Bio-Filmographies 167 Karen Finley 167 Deutsch 167 English 167 Tessa Hughes-Freeland 168 Deutsch 168 English 168 Richard Kern 168 Deutsch 168 English 168 Lung Leg 169 Deutsch 169 English 169 Lydia Lunch 169 Deutsch 169 English 169 Kembra Pfahler or Mistress Kembra 170 Deutsch 170 English 170 Casandra Stark 170 Deutsch 170 English 170 Tommy Turner 171 Deutsch 171 English 171 David Wojnarowicz 171 Deutsch 171 English 171 Nick Zedd 172 Deutsch 172 English 172 Selected Bibliography 173 Film Documentaries 174 Imprint 175 ISBN:,9783863351571 ISBN: 9783863351571 With Texts By Carlo Mccormick ... [et Al.] ; Edited By Susanne Pfeffer ; Visual Concept & Collages By Leonard Neumann. Published To Accompany The Exhibition You Killed Me First Held At Kw Institute Of Contemporary Art, Berlin, 19th Feb.-9th Apr., 2012. Includes Bibliographical References. Text In English And German. Nightmarish scenarios of violence, dramatic states of mind, and perverse sexual abysses - the films of the Cinema of Transgression that were aimed at shock, provocation, and confrontation. This book reflects the pulp-punk spirit of the Cinema of Transgression