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Nick Zedd is an American filmmaker and author based in Mexico City. He 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. These filmmakers and artistic collaborators included Richard Kern, Tessa Hughes Freeland, Lung Leg and Lydia Lunch. Under numerous pen names, Zedd edited and wrote the Underground Film Bulletin which publicized the work of these filmmakers. The Cinema of Transgression was explored in Jack Sargeant's book Deathtripping . Wikipedia  

✵ 8. May 1958
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“Extremist art is non-metaphysical, based on the senses.”

Nick Zedd

The Extremist Manifesto, 2013

“The Simulation imposed upon us by shadow governments and hidden elites must be exposed and destroyed. That includes a cancerous art establishment based on commerce and the malignant dictums of predatory capitalism that negates individual breakthroughs based on lived experience.”

Nick Zedd

The Extremist Manifesto, 2013

“We are the new extremists, armed with a vision to see through the charade imposed upon us by the gatekeepers of consensus reality, who manage a mass hallucination we choose to reject.”

Nick Zedd

The Extremist Manifesto, 2013

“In an empirical sense, extremist art is a unified confirmation of one’s resistance to and transcendence of status quo thinking.”

Nick Zedd

The Extremist Manifesto, 2013

“Today’s smut is tomorrow’s fine art. The profane, with the passage of time becomes sacred. Having suffered under a reactionary ontological hermeneutics for the last fifty years, the extremist movement constitutes an emergent phenomenon which is more than the sum of the processes from which it has emerged. Interpretation theory rewarded by dominant culture would have us believe that history is objective when in fact its subjective nature is based on hierarchical systems of exploitation benefiting a global elite.”

Nick Zedd

Quoted in: Nick Zedd’s The Extremist Manifesto http://www.undergroundfilmjournal.com/nick-zedds-the-extremist-manifesto/ By Mike Everleth, March 7, 2013
The Extremist Manifesto, 2013

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