Items

• Tessa Hughes-Freeland Shooting

  Hughes-Freeland shooting "The Bug" (1998)
• You Killed Me First Poster

  Poster for Kern's super8 short "You Killed Me First" (1985)
• Lydia Lunch Film Strips
• The Sewing Circle

  Censored still of sewn genital's from "The Sewing Circle" (1992).
• The Wild World of Lydia Lunch DVD Cover

  Xeroxed DVD cover of Zedd's first collaboration with Lunch (made during the breakdown of their relationship), "The Wild World of Lydia Lunch" (1983).
• Geek Maggot Bingo Flyer

  Xeroxed flyer from Nick's first feature, "Geek Maggot Bingo."
• Lydia Lunch Lacy Portraits
• Lydia Lunch and Lung Leg

  Lydia Lunch pins down Lung Leg in "Fingered" (1986).
• Armed Richard Kern

  Richard Kern holding a revolver on the set of "Fingered" (1986).
• My Slave Flyer
• Wrecked on Cannibal Island

  An intertitle from "Wrecked on Cannibal Island" that translates to: "beautiful beautiful like a flower of glass."
• Dirty Bathtub
• Nick Zedd in War Is Menstrual Envy

  Zedd in costume posing for his feature "War Is Menstrual Envy"
• Image of Program for the New York Film Festival Downtown

  Program for the debut 1984 festival, founded by Tessa Hughes-Freeland and Ela Troyano, lists names of several of the filmmakers who would become contributors to the Cinema of Transgression.
• Nymphomania

  Film still of Holly Adams dressed as a nymph napping on a boulder from Tessa Hughes-Freeland and Holly Adam's "Nymphomania" (1994)
• Lung Leg in Fingered

  Still from "Fingered" (1986) in which Lung Leg appears disheveled on the side of a road.
• Armless Wojnarowicz

  A still of David Wojnarowicz from the short "Stray Dogs" (1985), included in the anthology "Manhattan Love Suicides." Wojnarowicz's character has torn off his arm after being spurned by the artist he's obsessed with.
• Underground Film Bulletin #6 (1987)

  Image of the sixth issue of the Underground Film Bulletin, a fanzine about the Cinema of Transgression created and edited by Nick Zedd.
• Lung Leg in "You Killed Me First"

  Picture of acress Lung Leg holding a revolver
• Nick Zedd Suicide

  A still from the short "Thrust in Me" (1985) of Nick Zedd in a black wig reading the book "Suicide" by Emile Durkheim.
• Cinema of Transgression Flyer

  Flyer of 11/4 screening of films associated with the Cinema of Transgression
• Lydia Lunch in Fingered

  Lydia Lunch posing with a phone in the Kern's short film "Fingered" (1986).
• Lung with Lizard

  Print of a photograph from the shoot for the short film "Submit to Me Now" (1987) by Richard Kern. Lung poses with a dark lizard on her left cheek. According to Kern, "this photograph of Lung Leg was taken in 1987 while we were shooting the very first scene in my movie Submit to Me Now in my old apartment on East 13th Street. Lung showed up at my house with a tiny green salamander in her pocket and asked if it was okay if it crawled on her face when I shot her." —