Lydia Lunch
Birthday: 1959-06-02
Place of Birth: Rochester, New York, USA
Biography: Lydia Lunch is an American singer, poet, writer, actress and self-empowerment speaker, whose career was spawned by the New York no wave scene. Her work typically features provocative and confrontational noise music delivery, and has maintained an anti-commercial ethic, operating independently of major labels and distributors.
Movies
Kill Your Idols
A 2004 documentary on thirty years of alternative rock 'n roll in NYC.Documenting the history from t...
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Kiss My Grits: The Herstory of Women in Punk and Hard Rock
Part of "The Women in Music" series...
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Lunch on Kern
Featuring Lydia Lunch and the photography of Richard Kern. Teaser for an arté doc [Chris Habib] made...
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Vortex
A film noirish atmosphere is created to show detective Lunch (a popular underground musician and poe...
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The Right Side of My Brain
Lydia Lunch and Richard Kern's first collaborative effort, The Right Side of My Brain, is a glimpse ...
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Fingered
One of Richard Kern’s most ambitious works is Fingered (1986), whose sarcastic disclaimer says “alth...
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Fake Orgasm
Lazlo Pearlman is a conceptual artist, an activist capable of dinamiting our prejudices about sex an...
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Mutantes: Punk Porn Feminism
Mutantes sheds light on a feminism that was little talked about in France. This documentary comprise...
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The Wild World of Lydia Lunch
Shot entirely in Ireland and England on film stolen by Nick Zedd, the movie offers a rare glimpse in...
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No Wave - Underground '80: Berlin - New York
the connections and energy flow between the various artists populating the 1980s sub-cultures of New...
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Thanatopsis
Beth B, in collaboration with legendary downtown performance artist/musician Lydia Lunch, creates a ...
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Kill Your Idols: More.
A full-length feature documentary produced in 2006 which serves as a companion piece to and is inclu...
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Kiss Napoleon Goodbye
Punk icons Lydia Lunch and Henry Rollins star in this cult drama about a pregnant pianist named Hedd...
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Llik Your Idols
Discover the New York underground scene during the 80s and throw yourself into an exciting, anarchic...
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She Had Her Gun All Ready
Two women – one passive and resigned, the other aggressive and domineering – interact in various loc...
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The Hardcore Collection
This DVD features 13 provocative short films by Richard Kern. Color & B&W film shorts with Lydia Lun...
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Wild Thing
A documentary about The Troggs (performers of Wild Thing) and other Rock bands....
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Beauty Becomes the Beast
Beauty Becomes the Beast describes a random access world mediated by TV images and shards of popular...
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Raw Nerves: A Lacanian Thriller
A noir mostly set in a bathroom stall and stairwell. A private dick trapped in a tight spot. A narra...
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No Age New York
A scattershot documentary about punk rock film makers in New York, with contributions from Lydia Lun...
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Lydia Lunch: Malicious Intent
Collection of live spoken word performances by Lydia Lunch....
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Rome '78
Nares mocks up Ancient Rome by shooting in faux-classical sites including Tribeca's American Thread ...
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Submit to Me
Cinema of Transgression pioneers and participants (Lydia Lunch, Lung Leg, Nick Zedd, etc.) perform a...
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Richard Kern - Portrait: Live From New York
Haxan Films-produced documentary on Richard Kern's work around 1997. Footage from his photo sessions...
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Like Dawn to Dust
Lydia Lunch laments the difficulty of relationships in the wilds of Connemara, Ireland....
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Submit to Me Now
Oddballs dancing, leering at camera, guy shaving a nontraditional part of his body and man ripping h...
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Autoluminescent: Rowland S. Howard
From myth to legend Rowland Howard appeared on the early Melbourne punk scene like a phantom out of ...
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Guerillere Talks
This experimental short consists of eight unedited rolls of super-8 film, each of which profiles an ...
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Godkiller: Walk Among Us
Even in a postapocalyptic future in which Earth has been colonized by aliens, humans need hearts to ...
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The Gun Is Loaded
At the end of the Reagan years, rocker and confrontational performance artist Lydia Lunch launches a...
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Black Box
An innocent youth is abducted and dragged down into a dystopian nightmare where teenage Lydia Lunch ...
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Barbecue Death Squad From Hell
Lydia Lunch and Penn & Teller jazz up the Jenkins' family picnic home movie, turning it into a back...
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Bye Bye Blondie
A love story of two women who meet up in their late forties and attempt to retrieve the romance they...
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Mondo New York
A young woman wanders around New York City and stumbles across a number of strange characters and se...
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NYC Foetus
A documentary about composer/producer/performer JG Thirlwell and his musical alter-egos, including F...
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For the End of Time
For the End of Time is a film about the mind… a film about the body and our inability to merge these...
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Put More Blood Into the Music
PBS produced documentary in two parts: the first is dedicated to saxophonist and composer John Zorn;...
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L7: Pretend We're Dead
A real time journey witnessing the rise, fall, and ultimate redemption of the fierce feminist pionee...
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Blank City
In the years before Ronald Reagan took office, Manhattan was in ruins. But true art has never come f...
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Lydia Lunch: Video Hysterie: 1978 - 2006
This fascinating and retrospective look at the music of the outspoken and multitalented Lydia Lunch ...
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Subway Riders
A psychotic saxophone player lures victims to deserted spots with his music and then guns them down...
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Baby Trouble Hole
Malga Kubiak stars in her exploration of sex and self. One woman's love to her own body interlaced w...
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Death of the Reel
Guy Maddin flies to Kansas City, Missouri, in a vain attempt to save cinema as it continues to die f...
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Flood Stains
Renowned artist Lydia Lunch joins architect Juan Azulay in an experimental performance broadcast liv...
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Kill Us All
Poetic seductress Lydia Lunch describes the destructive nature of a broken human before partaking in...
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Penn & Teller's Invisible Thread
Penn Jillette and Teller are called upon to display their unique brand of humor to save civilization...
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The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things
Young Jeremiah lives in a stable environment with loving foster parents until the day his troubled m...
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The Circular Ruins
Six days of shooting through the desert deathscape, Mojave motels with bug blankets and bone white r...
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American Fame Pt. 2: Forgetting Jonathan Brandis
Cam Archer revisits the life of child actor Jonathan Brandis who committed suicide in 2003. Lydia Lu...
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School of Shame
The film starts off with an eight minute concert sequence shot in the summer of '84 at a club called...
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D.I.Y. or Die: How to Survive as an Independent Artist
This documentary features interviews with Ian MacKaye (Fugazi), J Mascis (Dinosaur jr.), John John J...
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Gang of Souls: A Generation of Beat Poets
Maria Beatty's documentary exploring the insights and influences of the American Beat Poets. The fil...
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Punking Out
The film documents the beginning of the punk rock movement in New York City at CBGB's, a punk night ...
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Spit and Ashes
Spit and Ashes is a reimagining of the historical violence waged against women by patriarchal forces...
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Lydia Lunch: The War Is Never Over
The first career-spanning documentary retrospective of Lydia Lunch's confrontational, acerbic and al...
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Cruel Tricks for Dear Friends
Penn & Teller's Cruel Tricks for Dear Friends is a straight-to-video release by magicians Penn & Tel...
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My Lover The Killer
My Lover the Killer is the former title of the album by Lydia Lunch & Marc Hurtado released in 2016....
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Her Noise - The Making Of
Her Noise was an exhibition which took place at South London Gallery in 2005 with satellite events a...
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Die Haut - Sweat
Die Haut filmed live at Tempodrom, Berlin, August 1992. Featuring guest vocalists Alexander Hacke, ...
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No New York Festival - Berlin
The "No New York Festival" on a tour of Europe. This concert is at SO36, Kreuzberg, Berlin, where a ...
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Alien Portrait
Filmed at CBGB’s, New York City at a Teenage Jesus & The Jerks concert on January 13th, 1978. The fi...
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Road Rant: A Week on the Road with Lydia Lunch
The X-rated cartoon animations of Emmy award winning director/animator Merrill Aldighieri add a comi...
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