Lydia Lunch
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.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 3.037 |
| Birthday | 1959-06-02 |
| Place of Birth | Rochester, New York, USA |
| Also Known As | Lydia Anne Koch, |
2004
Kill Your Idols
7.4/11
A 2004 documentary on thirty years of alternative rock 'n roll in NYC.Documenting the history from the genuine authenticity of No Wave to the current...
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Kill Your Idols
2001
Kiss My Grits: The Herstory of Women in Punk and Hard Rock
0/0
Part of "The Women in Music" series
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Kiss My Grits: The Herstory of Women in Punk and Hard Rock
1997
Lunch on Kern
0/0
Featuring Lydia Lunch and the photography of Richard Kern. Teaser for an arté doc [Chris Habib] made as a kid
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Lunch on Kern
1982
Vortex
6.4/10
A film noirish atmosphere is created to show detective Lunch (a popular underground musician and poet) plow her way through the plans of a corporate b...
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Vortex
1984
The Right Side of My Brain
4.9/17
Lydia Lunch and Richard Kern's first collaborative effort, The Right Side of My Brain, is a glimpse into the world of unsatiable female lust, narrated...
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The Right Side of My Brain
1986
Fingered
5.5/16
One of Richard Kern’s most ambitious works is Fingered (1986), whose sarcastic disclaimer says “although it is not our sole intention to shock, insult...
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Fingered
2010
Fake Orgasm
6/1
Lazlo Pearlman is a conceptual artist, an activist capable of dinamiting our prejudices about sex and identity. What it seems to be a reflexion about...
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Fake Orgasm
2009
Mutantes: Punk Porn Feminism
5/10
Mutantes sheds light on a feminism that was little talked about in France. This documentary comprises of a series of interviews conducted in the USA,...
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Mutantes: Punk Porn Feminism
1983
The Wild World of Lydia Lunch
3.3/3
Shot entirely in Ireland and England on film stolen by Nick Zedd, the movie offers a rare glimpse into the unique private world of Lydia Lunch; The fo...
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The Wild World of Lydia Lunch
2009
No Wave - Underground '80: Berlin - New York
10/1
the connections and energy flow between the various artists populating the 1980s sub-cultures of New York and Berlin. Features Jim Jarmusch, Lydia Lun...
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No Wave - Underground '80: Berlin - New York
1991
Thanatopsis
0/0
Beth B, in collaboration with legendary downtown performance artist/musician Lydia Lunch, creates a chilling yet poetic vision of despairing nihilism...
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Thanatopsis
2006
Kill Your Idols: More.
7.75/4
A full-length feature documentary produced in 2006 which serves as a companion piece to and is included on the DVD of the 2004 film KILL YOUR IDOLS.
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Kill Your Idols: More.
1990
Kiss Napoleon Goodbye
5/3
Punk icons Lydia Lunch and Henry Rollins star in this cult drama about a pregnant pianist named Hedda whose marriage to husband Neal (Don Bajema) hits...
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Kiss Napoleon Goodbye
2007
Llik Your Idols
4.6/5
Discover the New York underground scene during the 80s and throw yourself into an exciting, anarchic and repulsive world that you won't forget.
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Llik Your Idols
1978
She Had Her Gun All Ready
8.2/5
Two women – one passive and resigned, the other aggressive and domineering – interact in various locations in New York city. The film explores the dyn...
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She Had Her Gun All Ready
2012
The Hardcore Collection
7.7/3
This DVD features 13 provocative short films by Richard Kern. Color & B&W film shorts with Lydia Lunch, Henry Rollins and more. Includes Death Valley...
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The Hardcore Collection
2012
Wild Thing
0/0
A documentary about The Troggs (performers of Wild Thing) and other Rock bands.
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Wild Thing
1982
DANCE OF THE DEAD CHILDREN
10/1
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DANCE OF THE DEAD CHILDREN
1986
Death Valley '69
0/0
Death Valley '69 was the first music video by Sonic Youth. The video features the majority of the band in various states of bloody dismemberment inter...
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Death Valley '69
1979
Beauty Becomes the Beast
7/3
Beauty Becomes the Beast describes a random access world mediated by TV images and shards of popular culture. The film features a powerful performance...
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Beauty Becomes the Beast
1980
Raw Nerves: A Lacanian Thriller
0/0
A noir mostly set in a bathroom stall and stairwell. A private dick trapped in a tight spot. A narrator searching for a way out of the story.
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Raw Nerves: A Lacanian Thriller
1980
The Offenders
0/0
A punk savage satire about a kidnapping.
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The Offenders
1993
No Age New York
7/1
A scattershot documentary about punk rock film makers in New York, with contributions from Lydia Lunch, Henry Rollins, Richard Kern, Beth B, Nick Zedd...
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No Age New York
1996
Visiting Desire
4.5/2
Complete strangers meet in a room to act out their sexual desires.
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Visiting Desire
1994
Lydia Lunch: Malicious Intent
0/0
Collection of live spoken word performances by Lydia Lunch.
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Lydia Lunch: Malicious Intent
1978
Rome '78
6.4/7
Nares mocks up Ancient Rome by shooting in faux-classical sites like Grant's Tomb and Tribeca's American Thread Building, where a decrepit penthouse l...
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Rome '78
1986
Submit to Me
5.3/20
Cinema of Transgression pioneers and participants (Lydia Lunch, Lung Leg, Nick Zedd, etc.) perform a series of acts as they submit to director Richard...
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Submit to Me
1997
Richard Kern - Portrait: Live From New York
0/0
Haxan Films-produced documentary on Richard Kern's work around 1997. Footage from his photo sessions, interviews with Kern and his models, etc. Featur...
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Richard Kern - Portrait: Live From New York
1983
Like Dawn to Dust
8/1
Lydia Lunch laments the difficulty of relationships in the wilds of Connemara, Ireland.
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Like Dawn to Dust
1987
Submit to Me Now
4.6/16
Oddballs dancing, leering at camera, guy shaving a nontraditional part of his body and man ripping his own throat out, woman stabbing herself to death...
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Submit to Me Now
2011
Autoluminescent: Rowland S. Howard
7.5/12
From myth to legend Rowland Howard appeared on the early Melbourne punk scene like a phantom out of Kafkaesque Prague or Bram Stoker’s Dracula. A beau...
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Autoluminescent: Rowland S. Howard
2001
Abnormal: The Sinema of Nick Zedd
8/1
THE SINEMA OF NICK ZEDD is the first DVD collection of the filmmaker’s works, and includes 11 of his films as well as outtakes, interviews, and rare c...
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Abnormal: The Sinema of Nick Zedd
1978
Guerillere Talks
7.2/6
This experimental short consists of eight unedited rolls of super-8 film, each of which profiles an individual woman in real time. The women engage in...
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Guerillere Talks
2010
Godkiller: Walk Among Us
5.4/25
Even in a postapocalyptic future in which Earth has been colonized by aliens, humans need hearts to live, so when an orphan boy's sister needs a new o...
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Godkiller: Walk Among Us
1989
The Gun Is Loaded
4.2/4
At the end of the Reagan years, rocker and confrontational performance artist Lydia Lunch launches a broadside. From a formal podium, she attacks the...
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The Gun Is Loaded
1979
Black Box
5/3
A man is tortured by his girlfriend and then locked inside a black box.
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Black Box
1986
Barbecue Death Squad From Hell
7/1
Lydia Lunch and Penn & Teller jazz up the Jenkins' family picnic home movie, turning it into a backyard SOV slasher.
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Barbecue Death Squad From Hell
2012
Bye Bye Blondie
5.6/60
A love story of two women who meet up in their late forties and attempt to retrieve the romance they had in their youth.
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Bye Bye Blondie
1988
Mondo New York
5.1/8
A young woman wanders around New York City and stumbles across a number of strange characters and settings that represent the "underground" areas of t...
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Mondo New York
2009
NYC Foetus
0/0
A documentary about composer/producer/performer JG Thirlwell and his musical alter-egos, including Foetus, Steroid Maximus and Manorexia. Featuring in...
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NYC Foetus
2009
For the End of Time
0/0
For the End of Time is a film about the mind… a film about the body and our inability to merge these two entities which are shaping a form of civiliza...
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For the End of Time
1988
Put More Blood Into the Music
7/3
PBS produced documentary in two parts: the first is dedicated to saxophonist and composer John Zorn; the second is about Sonic Youth at the height of...
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Put More Blood Into the Music
2017
L7: Pretend We're Dead
6.9/13
A real time journey witnessing the rise, fall, and ultimate redemption of the fierce feminist pioneers of American grunge punk: L7.
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L7: Pretend We're Dead
2011
Blank City
7/12
In the years before Ronald Reagan took office, Manhattan was in ruins. But true art has never come from comfort, and it was precisely those dire circu...
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Blank City
2008
Lydia Lunch: Video Hysterie: 1978 - 2006
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This fascinating and retrospective look at the music of the outspoken and multitalented Lydia Lunch represents every stage of her varied career, with...
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Lydia Lunch: Video Hysterie: 1978 - 2006
1981
Subway Riders
6.5/4
A psychotic saxophone player lures victims to deserted spots with his music and then guns them down.
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Subway Riders
1996
Baby Trouble Hole
0/0
Malga Kubiak stars in her exploration of sex and self. One woman's love to her own body interlaced with maggots; mixes x-rated porn. Voyeuristically t...
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Baby Trouble Hole
2008
Death of the Reel
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Guy Maddin flies to Kansas City, Missouri, in a vain attempt to save cinema as it continues to die from contempt and neglect.
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Death of the Reel
2010
Flood Stains
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Renowned artist Lydia Lunch joins architect Juan Azulay in an experimental performance broadcast live from the SCI-Arc Gallery.
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Flood Stains
2014
Kill Us All
0/0
Poetic seductress Lydia Lunch describes the destructive nature of a broken human before partaking in physical abuse of grown men with her younger coun...
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Kill Us All
1987
Penn & Teller's Invisible Thread
6.3/3
Penn Jillette and Teller are called upon to display their unique brand of humor to save civilization from strange extraterrestrial beings who have inv...
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Penn & Teller's Invisible Thread
2004
The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things
5.9/147
Young Jeremiah lives in a stable environment with loving foster parents until the day his troubled mother, Sarah, returns to claim him. Jeremiah becom...
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The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things
2014
The Circular Ruins
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Six days of shooting through the desert deathscape, Mojave motels with bug blankets and bone white rocks, future retro Reno motels with pink light bul...
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The Circular Ruins
2005
American Fame Pt. 2: Forgetting Jonathan Brandis
1/1
Cam Archer revisits the life of child actor Jonathan Brandis who committed suicide in 2003. Lydia Lunch narrates this meditation on fame, the actor’s...
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American Fame Pt. 2: Forgetting Jonathan Brandis
1984
School of Shame
0/0
The film starts off with an eight minute concert sequence shot in the summer of '84 at a club called Eight BC in NYC. The band consists of Lydia Lunch...
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School of Shame
2002
D.I.Y. or Die: How to Survive as an Independent Artist
4.7/5
This documentary features interviews with Ian MacKaye (Fugazi), J Mascis (Dinosaur jr.), John John Jesse (Demonic Erotic painter), Jim Rose (Jim Rose...
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D.I.Y. or Die: How to Survive as an Independent Artist
1989
Gang of Souls: A Generation of Beat Poets
5/1
Maria Beatty's documentary exploring the insights and influences of the American Beat Poets. The film conveys their consciousness and sensibility thro...
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Gang of Souls: A Generation of Beat Poets
1978
Punking Out
6/1
The film documents the beginning of the punk rock movement in New York City at CBGB's, a punk night club, and the lifestyle that revolves around this...
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Punking Out
2019
Spit and Ashes
4/2
Spit and Ashes is a reimagining of the historical violence waged against women by patriarchal forces in the name of religion, medicine and family. The...
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Spit and Ashes
2019
Lydia Lunch: The War Is Never Over
7/5
The first career-spanning documentary retrospective of Lydia Lunch's confrontational, acerbic and always electric artistry. As New York City's preemin...
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Lydia Lunch: The War Is Never Over
1987
Cruel Tricks for Dear Friends
6.6/5
Penn & Teller's Cruel Tricks for Dear Friends is a straight-to-video release by magicians Penn & Teller on Lorimar Home Video in 1987. The tap...
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Cruel Tricks for Dear Friends
2020
My Lover The Killer
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My Lover the Killer is the former title of the album by Lydia Lunch & Marc Hurtado released in 2016. The music, first languorous then abrasive, accomp...
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My Lover The Killer
2006
Her Noise - The Making Of
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Her Noise was an exhibition which took place at South London Gallery in 2005 with satellite events at Tate Modern and Goethe-Institut, London. Her Noi...
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Her Noise - The Making Of
1994
Die Haut - Sweat
0/0
Die Haut filmed live at Tempodrom, Berlin, August 1992. Featuring guest vocalists Alexander Hacke, Anita Lane, Blixa Bargeld, Kid Congo Powers, Lydia...
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Die Haut - Sweat
1979
No New York Festival - Berlin
0/0
The "No New York Festival" on a tour of Europe. This concert is at SO36, Kreuzberg, Berlin, where a sprawling variety of bands and musicians related t...
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No New York Festival - Berlin
1979
Alien Portrait
0/0
Filmed at CBGB’s, New York City at a Teenage Jesus & The Jerks concert on January 13th, 1978. The film shows the band members’ heads in slow motion ov...
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