Deathtripping

This exhaustive study focuses on the New York filmmakers that coalesced around the radical manifesto espoused by downtown filmmaker Nick Zedd: none shall emerge unscathed. Placing their work within the wider alternative film and downtown post-punk scenes Deathtripping offers detailed analyses of the movements films alongside interviews with the filmmakers and their collaborators including Richard Kern Nick Zedd Tommy Turner Beth B Joe Coleman and Lydia Lunch. Also discussed are seminal influences such as the Kuchar brothers Jack Smith and Andy Warhol as well as the history of underground and trash cinema.