Tommy Turner
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Biography: Tommy Turner is considered a key figure of the Downtown No Wave and Cinema of Transgression movements. While working days as a genetic research scientist and nights as a bartender at the Peppermint Lounge, the New York native rose to prominence through his zine Redrum and collaborations with Richard Kern and David Wojnarowicz.
Movies
The Acid King
The story of Ricky Kasso, an American teenager who murdered his friend, Gary Lauwers, in an alleged ...
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Where Evil Dwells
Loosely based on an infamous 1984 Long Island murder case involving Satan-worshiping, teenage drug f...
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Black Hearts Bleed Red
A stark adaptation of Flannery O’Connor’s short story A Good Man Is Hard To Find....
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The Dominatrix Sleeps Tonight
A gang of leather-clad, powerful women take over a traditionally male domain, and hairspray, eyeline...
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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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Simonland
In the unsettling, absurdist SIMONLAND, a grotesque, televangelist-style demagogue leads his studio ...
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Manhattan Love Suicides
A series of short films by Richard Kern: Stray Dogs, Woman At The Wheel, Thrust In Me, & I Hate ...
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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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I Hate You Now
“I Hate You Now” is about when you’re in a relationship, and the person you’re in a relationship wit...
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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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Woman at the Wheel
A woman takes each of her boyfriends - one poor and one rich- for a drive in her new car. Each argue...
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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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Red Spirit Lake
After a vengeful sorceress is tortured and killed by a corrupt industrialist looking to harness the ...
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