Nick Zedd

Biography

Nick Zedd was an American filmmaker and author based in New York 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. Zedd directed several super-low-budget movies, including the feature length They Eat Scum and Geek Maggot Bingo, as well as numerous short films.

Known For

Whoregasm

Blank City

Self

Scumbag

Brian

In Bad Taste

Self

365 Day Project

Jonas in the Desert

Self

Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis

Self

Dark Forces

Demon

Filmography

Year	Movie	Role
2024	Short Films: Best Of
2020	Dark Forces	Demon
2017	Scumbag	Brian
2017	Attack of the Particle Disruptors
2014	Halloween 1990	Himself
2012	The Hardcore Collection	(archive footage)
2011	Blank City	Self
2010	Con Artist	Self
2009	The Sex Files: A Dark XXX Parody	Agent 4
2007	Llik Your Idols	Himself
2007	365 Day Project
2007	Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis	Self
2007	Kill the Artist	Himself
2004	Other People's Mirrors	the alien spirit of Narcissus
2003	Rockets Redglare!	Self
2001	Thus Spake Zarathustra
1999	Tom Thumb in the Land of the Giants	Phantom
1999	In Bad Taste	Self
1996	Bubblegum
1996	Strange Love
1994	Jonas in the Desert	Self
1993	What About Me	Tom
1993	No Age New York	Himself
1992	War Is Menstrual Envy
1991	Shadows in the City	Demagogue
1989	No Such Thing as Gravity	Adam Malkonian, Esq.
1989	We Are Not To Blame
1988	Whoregasm
1987	Police State	Kid
1987	Submit to Me Now
1986	Kiss Me Goodbye
1986	King of Sex
1986	Sublapse Video Mag 1
1986	Go to Hell
1986	Submit to Me
1985	Thrust in Me	Man / Woman
1985	Manhattan Love Suicides	Poor Man / Man / Woman (segment "Woman at the Wheel" & "Thrust in Me")
1985	Woman at the Wheel	Poor Man
1984	Simonland
1983	The Wild World of Lydia Lunch	Himself
1983	Totem of the Depraved

Year	TV Show	Role