"If you could choose who you want to be ..." "who would you be?" "Outlaw." "Film director." "Rebel." "Rock star." "Paris, Casablanca, Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra" "Amos Poe, Eric Mitchell." "Take it from me, you dirty bitch ... living behind the camera." "I'll shoot you!" "There was something important going on ... a kind of "road old." "Here are some of the messages. "" "Previously it was not a voice for independent film." "The city was one of us, we He could shoot without a license." "It has been inspiring people it did from their feelings." "It's everything fell into place." "That was the explosive moment." "Meeting of like-minded." "Whether you want to do ..." "or people you've met ... everything was possible." "Make your movie." "Do it without money." "It was like we were living in a movie." "It was very cinematic." "Making the film was an accident." "As a teenager, I went to my dealing with photography." "America was about hope." "Vietnam War ..." "Martin Luther King Robert Kennedy was assassinated." "I was embarrassed." "I went to Czechoslovakia Family visits to my father." "I heard that there were farmers in the land of the Carpathian Mountains, Dracula ... which feared when photographed, their soul has been stolen." "So I had a telephoto lens and tried steal as many souls as possible." "And that night the Russians attacked inside." "And I was lost in the wild and photographed." "After that I could not shoot any more pictures." "I'm back in the US and went to a friend ... and he had two super-8 cameras." "One lay apart ... and I asked: "What is it?"" "He said: "This is a super-8 camera." "There you can make movies with him. "" "And it was love at first sight." "Punk rock is not for nothing in the 70s he appeared." "There was a rebellion against the cultural superficiality, that was then." "You had the feeling that The circle was completed." "We felt that we something new had their hands full." "Whenever I went out I had a 16mm camera with me." "The Council also took sound and I filmed Many bands with his friends." "Ivan and I had a film called 'Night Dinner "did." "Roxy Music, New York Dolls, David Bowie." "It ended with Patti Smith in black and white." "We decided all the other bands We have already filmed ... as Tumberlain, Patty Smith." "Nobody knew them, but we thought ... if we do a full 60 minutes we have a "feature" film." "They are easier to disperse." "We always sat without money." "That's why it was so resourceful." "We had all this footage ... and had none of the bands Already published music." "So we had to record Making of The Ramones and The Talking Heads." "Our budget for editing "Blank Generation" was $ 100." "The brothers were approaching the topic documentarians ..." "They had their own editing room." "And I asked them if I could rent for $ 40." "And they said, okay for 24 hours." "So Ivan and I have some speed and we cut the film in one day ended." "We showed the film at CBGB and everyone came to see." "It was a great success." "It was about everything overboard throw all the rules." "Making a film on 16mm film with nicks and everything." "With a bunch of musicians eventually nobody has ever heard." "Himself kicking and screaming to New York City stage of the campaign ... to announce that we are there." "We arrived." "I think that Amos Poe left us see that you could make a film without money." "Not that we always without a budget wanted to work ... but we wanted to make films." "And then when we did nothing My movies without a budget." "This period was a cultural explosion." "So many people were at make movies." "It's really been an explosion, not only in the film, but also ..." "Music, theater and performance" "Lower East Side seemed a major movie studio." "No one was in charge, not the money, but ..." "It was the accumulation talent and personality." "It was all about himself saving the first team and film culture." "Everyone experiment." "And I thought, 'I want to be a part of. "" "What is "it" might be." "I do not know if the story True or not, but ..." "There was a boy, Freddy, on Houston Street which one party won a super-8 camera ... sound, so a lot of people cheap could get my camera." "He had ground where he sold all kinds of stolen goods." "That day there was a row People buy these cameras." "Then came six months later people with their super-8 films." "And it helped the whole initiate movement." "You did not eat, but bought Guitar or Super-8 camera." "You went to a drugstore, bought some film, He called everyone together and start shooting." "We wrote our own rules." "And there is tried at a time Time break a few." ""Do you want a taxi?"" "'Where do you want to go?" " In Manhattan, please. "" ""What is the address?" " Drive simply but nicely." "I came to New York without he wants to stay here my whole life." "But I felt like home, like so many free spirits." "Normal people have fled So the only ones in New York ... wanted to go were the freaks and lunatics." "Between 14th Street, Houston Bowery and Avenue B ... that was the whole world to us." "You had all these areas, including Chinatown and Little Italy, and ..." "They might have already run around all those people meet ..." "You could from books and films." "There they were, and they He had it as hard as you." "He just came from William Burrows His staff that was actually a sword ... a Derringer pistol Among his belt." "Attic, where I lived I was where did Yoko Ono's film 'fly'." "People like Burrows, beat generation, He paved the way for us for free." "It was the mythical New York Bob Dylan, and ..." "Allen Ginsberg poetry." ""Running through the streets Angry looking angry swipe." "Since the city was so decrepit ..." "We have to live cheaply." "New York was nearly bankrupt." "It was like the Wild West." "President Ford refused Financial assistance to New York." "As a result, the city was economically decrepit." "There were areas on Lower East Side, where buildings ... there burned and abandoned layers and people went to live there." ""Yesterday departed." "Life Now Lower East Side ... in 2-bedroom." "Details will follow later. "" "You could just anywhere draw and decide to live there." "You searched innkeeper, and it turned out than having a shop in the street." "You gave him a couple hundred dollars large loft." "We lived like kings votes." "In our dilapidated palaces." "I pulled into a small apartment above a strip club." "No one lived except thousands of rats." "If the pest they withdrew through the deserted town." "The apartment was really busy infested." "I paid the rent, but they were tenants." "One of my recent films It was about cockroaches." "You could see their desperate heads." "We all had $ 50 per month a small apartment ... above and beside each other." "We called it "Little Hollywood"." "There were people like Amos Poe Tina L'Hotsky and John Lurry." "We worked on other films and music together." "We were very well aware This was the same area ... where once the old one spoels movies were filmed." "When they made films in one afternoon." "We felt that we had a past." "Rapid and impressive make movies." "People shared their equipment and put things into ... and we worked together on films." "We have been in this unit charred piece of New York ..." "We did not feel bound limits." "We went to CBGB and Max's Kansas City ..." "And then suddenly everything Light in New York." "And New York was shrouded in darkness." "I saw people from the windows Shops throw." "It was a huge act of liberation." "I could remember when I failure of 1977 have seen ..." "State Constitution may be just explode." "Beanstigde me, but I It was also exciting." "Clinton Street is two blocks south of here." "Further south, so I would not go." "Why?" "Is there really dangerous." "I hold myself." "People taking the law into their own hands." "If they do what forests just did it." "Many drugs, crime ferocity." "Neither of us had any money, so Our steal anything." "The danger gave people energy instead of fear." "You could be at night, relieved." "There was every day of anarchy." "It was exactly at the height Corruption New York." "We came out of the rubble." "It seemed that someone bomb was dropped on the Lower East Side." "I remember conversations from that era When people asked me ... as you can in the name of God live in this place?" "And I thought, 'Well, let's just not to visit. "" "At Rivington Street was located foundation for young filmmakers ..." "There could rent a cheap camera." "People stood in line on drugs he yelled at me because they thought ..." "I had the urge." "I had to fight through junkies ... to pick up equipment." "Rafik had OP Screening Room, which could rent, depending on how much money you had." "He said that "I want $ 50." "I'm just -'Maar One decade. "Well, you can rent for $ 7." "He saw this group Emerging filmmakers ... and gave them space develop in." "Every year on Thanksgiving, He invited all the ... and I served my cranberries Jack Smith." "It was the heyday underground filmmaking in New York." "Jonas Mekas, Shirley Clark, Robert Frank, and certainly Jack Smith." "He was known in the neighborhood." "I remember pointing in rats and he said: "The soul of the dead landlords." "In the mid-70s, "you had Warhol Jack Smith, Harry Smith, Jonas Mekas ... all live in New York." "You should have everything in place there." "Everything I know I learned from making, reading and watching movies." "French cinema like Godard and Bresant." "Italian films like Antonioni." "And ... because, with a small a group of people to work." "Kind of family." "He made his black and white narrative films." "Warhol's love for his concept of ..." "Fassbender for actors brings together ..." "Pasidiny blameless ..." "A Melville for his hat and sunglasses." "People were glad Style and he wanted to make such films themselves ... but with a nonchalant attitude." ""I'm doing my film and if you Not to you but to rot." ""Melancholia solidifies my face."" ""Drink and women ..." ""Only with anger, try I'm looking at your face. "" ""I steal from the acts." ""Nature has its own plans." "But no reflection." ""Society makes demands." ""I live only for one reason."" "'I am'." "What happens now?" "I do not know?" "I can not see into the future." "True!" "Well, if it's fate I'll let you ... if not, I leave." "He still works as Godard principles." "Due to the work, without lighting and movies from your hand." "And the first time I things look in practice ..." "It was when I borrowed a 16mm camera Amos Poe and gave him the ... so that he scene Deborah Harry filmed." "Ready to take my picture?" "" "Amos put an ad in "Village Voice"." "Eric responded to the ad "Unmāda Beds" and Patty Astor him." "I had Duncan Hannah who plays the lead Time to recognize that." "He said:" "Do you want me They play a major role in the film without a script?" "Yes, they have about two weeks:" "I said We finished the script." "Sorry, but you can give me a tenner borrow up next week?" "I've already made their money And then I got fired." "My wife was pregnant and gave birth to a child." "And when she was still upset and had to be admitted." "So I finished my film." "I had a contribution ... with a pram snow as Doctor Zhivago ..." "Wipe madhouse so the baby could see her mother." "Besides making this movie, I was Also in the plans for the next film." "It was the best and worst time of my life." ""The Stranger" was quick tough film made real at the moment." "Stranger walked in January 1978 premiere." "Until then, everyone wanted make movies." "Everyone who came to the premiere." "I was surprised that it was Amos Road went up and made a feature film." "When other filmmakers started I said, "you can do it."" "If I can do that, you can too." "Amos Poe was the one who next independent film movement ..." "After Andy Warhol started." "I read about Warhol's Time magazine ... so I New York come." "The angle of incidence was similar to Warhol films." "Bring your friends, give them costumes and let them freely for the camera." "We deliberately alienate us from avant-garde cinema." "We wanted to tell our stories movies instead art films." "So you can reach more people." ""I want to see you in action."" "They took things from "Underground" and "expirimentele" movies ... and created a new genre." "So much ..." "It was grim." "It was Reflection time." "At night, the street was dead scary." "It explains how people from "Alphabet City" he held." "And they knew that scariest rooms." "Home Run was like You went to war." "It was very similar to the movie "Midnight Cowboy."" "You could even Ratso Rizzo-like characters meet." "A type of Joe Bucks on 35th Street." "Lots of inspiration Events had nothing ... deal with other artists but with the people that I met on the street." "Or people who were trying to rip." "I wish the "Smitherines' rough characters indicate ... a world in which they lived." "If you have no money things to meet ... just use what's there." "No money for the movie?" "Steal some shots." "We were aggressive because we were idealists." "Eric asked me a movie Make "Kidnapping"." "It was a good system." "We just shot ..." "War film wrapped and sent It is behind." "And it was a movie." "My approach has always been let the action play." "Aim the camera out and look at it." "You do not need to interfere too much with what happened." "We shot it in one day." "No adjustments." "It was "punks speed" and "terrorists on valium." "Eric Mitchel attended floor above me on the 3rd street." "Eric could be electricity account does not pay" "So he had an extension cord John Lurie house." "Every time I pissed I had it pulled the plug." "Sometimes completely War I and Eric." "Only whole time." "Eric then made his films ..." "and I thought I could." "John Lurie just followed me in the street." "And one day he knocked on my door ... and he gave me some speed and we made a movie together." "John made film James Chance ... and get money To "Men in Orbit" ... put into the robbery scene." "His saxophone was probably stolen." "For vezekeringsgeld." "We broke the law on money collect our movies." "That was our way." "I kept a secret, that I could play the saxophone." "And I've done movies." "Nobody did what was good." "If you do not have good technique." "The technique was really hated." "Artists making music." "Musicians painted or produced films." "Nobody did what He knew about." "There was suddenly a crossroads between music, theater and the arts." "That did not happen sooner and the attitude was, just do it." "I never went to film school ..." "I just took a small Kodak camera He turned it on and learned to make films." "But in all this was Hidden powerful message." "Did you see another people do things ... you thought that what can not play the guitar ..." "I can not." "Maybe I'm in the band." "Things went at that time so quickly." "In the four-month period TV and you had Blondie and the Ramones." "Two months later it was all over and twist and DNA." "I've never heard anything like it." ""No Wave" was a clever name." "This was used to appoint those bands ... who were more unharmonious." "It was really nihilistic." "Destroy all of the 1976th This is the end." "Burned." "It was much more experimental." "Spread the idea of ​​punk conceptual understanding of music." "Minimal, minimal, loud ..." "Try to bring music as if it had never occurred before." ""Mars" was a first for me No Wave band." "They inspired me start with "Teenage Jesus." "Unlike apart and some In a twist of ..." "There was at the No Wave They not trained musicians." "Just picked up a tool and she started making noise." "Someone gave me a lousy broken guitar and ..." "Then I started music to Teenage Jesus." "She brought LP which was four minutes." "Their concept was "less is more." "My influences came from literature, dada, surrealism ... a film, rather than the music." "I wish Bradly field as a drummer." "which is simply a drinker crazy was that I met ... on the Bowery, where he was a pilgrim stomped him fired." "I wanted him as a drummer." "He said:" "I do not play drums ... but I told you or play the drum." "Bradley Field of Lydia Lunch He had one drum and a stick." "That was the drummer." "A Gordon Stevenson on bass guitar." "He was the first person I could who died of AIDS." "It was a huge personality on stage." "It was truly an icon of his time." "She was born for this role." ""That's not funny now be a teenager. "" "It was so wild, so young and ..." "I was with her first filmed." "In 1978 everything was Well, the people of the waves ..." "Suddenly he plays in No Wave films." "People like Lydia Lunch, Pat Place, Sway Anna and John Lurie." "One way Aesthetic of Music ... convey to create a movie." "Their talent for using soundtracks." "I could not find a better actor In my own circle ... and most of us Actors are already ... in our own lives." "Patty Astor was known Actress in "downtown" movie scene." "She starred in Amos Poe films." "A film of Eric Mitchell." "I wanted to act in films." "I find myself always actress ... who pretended to be a rock star." "Then I existed rock Rollreallyforwomen." "It was only for men." "There was an element of cooperation." "And the people who worked with me ..." "He had my trust." "I had no ambition to be an actress." "I'm so bad at it." "We could not act." "We shot semi-documentary Unitarian options." "I gave my friends roll They were also in real life." "Rome '78 was very ambitious." "It was like a military exercise." "James' film was like a pair of escaped lunatics ..." "He gave them Roman costumes." "They were just sheets." "I had to leave him pay sheets." "People in robes that reenact Rome in the heart of New York City ..." "It was really hilarious." "That is something we will not soon It connects with the No Wave scene." "It was very funny." ""I said," pretend "and you really trying to kill me! "" "It speaks for itself: "They are killing Cesar." "It was difficult to predict what at what moment would happen." "The dialogue was partly written ... and the residue was instead improvised." "I wanted to shoot in this building ..." "So I went to see ... and pretended that I wanted to rent it." "He took me up in the elevator ..." "The elevator opened and I He saw this beautiful vaulted ceiling." "I secretly lock your windows .." "and that evening we climbed to the top ..." "He went inside I opened the windows ... and we made our film." "I used everything But Roman looked like something my decor." "But there have always been parking signs or ... people who smoked cigarettes." "I still think ..." "All films were New York ... although Ancient Rome suggested." ""Hey, what's bothering you here?"" "'I do not know?" "'" ""Looking around the neighborhood."" ""Yeah, we just walk past." "Why? "" "Eric Mitchell film "The Way It is "the first film ... where I played." "Eric wrote the dialogue and the actors ..." "while setting up the device." "Martin Boon said, "What if I say this ...?"" "A Herbert said, "Great!" "Steve, what would you say ...? "" "And then I spot some text." "Eric had all its equipment in the laundry basket." "And then he cried under my A window they needed me." "Then we went to the streets and filmed the scene." "Vincent Gallo also played on." "We played our kind of films not aware of emotions." "A bad acting The result was ... it was deliberate and an important aspect of the film." "Your name Schreuber?" " Yes." "Name?" " Dora." "Nickname?" " Rat." "Age?" " 21" "Jobs?" " Prostitute." "Which categories?" " Luxury." "I've already answered this question." "It was like Abstact Expressionist painting." "I continued shooting or until the money ran out ... whether the film was completed." "It was the normal thing in the world for me ... go to bed at 8 pm and sleep up to 11 hours ... and get dressed and go out." "The home was in the first CBGB body." "I met a lot of musicians But Amos Poe and Eric Mitchell." "I first came to CBGB ... it was the first time I was somewhere He was with like-minded people." "Freaks and Misfits." ""Are you going now?"" ""Girl, it goes off without me."" "'Where are you going?" "MUD Club? "" "Exchanged from one another Max is at CBGB's to Mud Club." "Anyone with a little bit of art He did come in these clubs." "There was always a film screening Scott B and Beth and Charlie Ahern." "Lots of ideas were replaced in clubs." "Associated with drug use." "If you live in a shanty house ... between two empty houses surrounded by trash ... where it is dangerous just go home ... then you have what it takes rather blunt reality." "Plus it was nice." "You had much better drugs in the late 70s." "All types of pills ... and barbiturates." "Pills or drink, it did not matter." "Then I thought that I was a little bit barrier could break ... spot more Truth was faithful." "People at that time were much less hypocritical about drugs." "You had this whole morale resistance to drug use." "It was normal part of our lives." "I remember parties Cookie Meuller, who ... crazy woman was who He died of AIDS." "He often gave MDA feetsjes." "XTC predecessor." "It was on Christmas Eve." "Anyone who snorted as MDA and people who hated each other ..." "They were suddenly friends from each other." "I remember Copol He was at the party." "Like a weird dream." "And then He left." "Cookie, was a dealer." "Fasbinder was a drug dealer." "If you were with her you saw Fasbinder Sometimes they come to pick up a Coke." "She was in many movies and They could also write very well." "It was an eclectic and diverse so many people ... who met and their Ideas had to do." "Does not mean no ambition Do not look into the future." "At the beginning appeared an article in the "Village Voice" ... and he brought in all those movies Sudden public attention." "I believe that Jim Hoberman which was marked "No Wave" invented for these films." "Then he began to build the Real." "The label "No Wave" is nothing more than it's just a label." "One way to all those disciplines stopping in one category." "This facilitates Media refer to this type of art." "We need category in order to reduce the bottom movements." "I have no problem with "No Wave" because "NO" ("no" or "no"), he says ..." ""Wave (wave or motion)." "It will be named for what it is." "'What is it?" "I know too damn much? "" "I do not think all Our films look alike." "Format Super-8 was common factor." "And they work with actors and feature, documentary or did both." "You could not do it." "I just went to Eric and Amos, and they said ..." "Whenever you go now even make a movie?" "Come on, Jim." "Create a feature film." "My first film "permanent vacation" I wrote to my friend ..." "Chris Parker, who was 14 years when I met him." "He was a smart way come to CBGB ... without paying." "There was a back entrance to loading and unloading." "We went ... back and if someone The door opened, we crept ... and hid for Hilly Crystal the owner of the tent." "Chris Young would have." "I thought the guy has charisma." "Chris was out already very movable type." "But when I started shooting It was less agile ..." "So I went there and who took the speed of the film." "It was not a documentary ..." "But it was filmed in Where we hung out before." "We filmed in Genoa flat Lurrie 3rd Street." "And Jean Michelle Basquiat was a good friend of ours." "He called himself "Samo" and wrote Graffiti on the streets." "Often he had no place to sleep So he slept with me or John apartment." "So while we turned my film Genoa apartment sleeping ... in a sleeping bag on the floor." "So during the shoot, I trudged remains under the camera ... so it was out of the picture." "And he slept What she fell asleep again." "So in these scenes, that is in the room But I pulled to get him out of the picture." "I sent the movie to Film Festival in Germany ... and the film won the prize." "So when I came back I could Even my evil landlord pays off." "And Wim Wenders saw my film, and He offered me some film work ... and I've just gone with the film." "You could do a film show him next week." "It was filmed, cut and screened." "We walked at night on the streets with a bucket of glue ... and posted throughout our movie posters." "And it worked just fine." "Eric, James and I decided to our own cinema set." ""New Cinema" served to recall Films provide a platform." "We filmed in Super-8 and convert straight to video." "And then we could get into the "New Cinema "run as often as we wanted." "It was the first video Theater in New York." "I went there regularly." "They turned Lurrie John's "Men in Orbit" ... and James near the "Rome-78th" "I left 'The Deadly Art of Survival " see there." "As long as people came to see the movie Turn left him there." "We really wanted people he had to pay to see movies." "No admission charge." "Two input dollar, or you will not get inside." "Occasionally, serious film, came Critics see it as a film ..." "It was written in Soho News and The Village Voice." "Some films drew weeks Long full houses." "We were amazed how people were interested in our films." "Did you have some 5-600 people Center, they knew." "And somehow arrived everyone appears to ... to do that night was." "Exhibitions were organized in Other opportunities than clubs." "Famous performance was beneficial X-Magazine that James is coming ... and several others were involved." "James was "Teenage Jesus vacation and ..." "He is working on his own band focus." "He came to me and said, "I think you can find it all right, you play a musical instrument? "" "The audience of "The twist" existed Artistic types of wind Soho." "They were cool guys so I started pulling on them ... and yet did not respond I started them what to trade." "I really wanted physical, emotional response from them." "He jumped into the audience and began pushing the greatest person." "If you went to see twist could your hair out as they are developed ..." "It was amazing." "The audience gave the attack Concert element of pure realism ... but the more I did it More is expected from me." "It was the opposite why I did it." "I once had to sign statements I would do it on stage." "So I replaced it with violence violent dance." "So I did not have to beat people." "I left the band just Brian Eno came." "In a twist fallen apart and I founded ... another band with my friends." "Our first gig was in the "TR3" and we had six songs." "To see how he was simply charming." "Bands like get our from these influences." "I remember that everywhere posters hung with ..." "Then "Everyone here is in the band."" "I also had a band, "Del Byzanteens" ..." "We opened Echo Bunnymen and New Order." "Everyone knew that I wanted to paint, writing or in a band." "And often all three." "I just wanted personalities and show band." "Everyone wanted movies so that one and a half hours." "I was a friend of Edo Bertolio." "Edo was a great photographer." "We had a lot Matching interests." "As girls and drugs." "His girlfriend "Marie Paul" provided funding." "Nobody ever gave money foil to it." "It stole or robbed just down together." "And suddenly we had to production company." "I wrote a screenplay for a week." "They wanted "Downtown Manhattan" imaging." "They needed a person who led the audience through this world." "Jean Michelle Basquiat wanted that person would want to be." "To be an artist and you Political slogans sprayed on walls ..." "It is pretty cool." ""I've got your brand Pressing the world. "" ""And it has left its mark on me."" ""I'm a writer," ..." ""But sometimes I feel as I wrote. "" ""You see that guy over there?" they say "..." ""It's just a number." "I'm not sure that I Basquiat You can talk without being emotional." "If he was still alive then he became 49 this year." ""Here you have to think big only survival "." ""It can be a jungle, or a paradise."" "The project was created in 1980 and nothing This was a few years ago." "Very cold long days of filming ..." "The director must wait because who shot in the can." "There was a political scandal going on and they did the money supply." "Then we have 20 years No film made." "This fact shows how New York looked like." "I felt that we have to do something with this movement because I felt ..." "It would not stay long." "And I was right." "New York energetic atmosphere She was so contagious ... that it affected everything." "615 00:42:49,388 -- 00:42:53,283 You have been there in a hurry." "Everything had to happen right now." "Once you have an idea You brought it right out." "Otherwise, she lived one street away." "So I knew him as someone from the neighborhood." "And when did this movie about the Nazis ... which appeared in the "Long Island" ..." "I was very disappointed I did not play a role." ""They act like real Americans."" ""If they're not drunk They buy clothes, "..." ""Or they spend their time disgusting woman." ""Of all these decadence I need on my neck. "" "Otherwise Graf did Trom Long Island Four "... and she died shortly thereafter in a traffic accident." "Otherwise, it was a great filmmaker." "His death was a huge blow." "In this period it was about survival." "They had to fight for it to allow for the production of films." "It was a new style of film but with sharp edges, unpolished." "633 00:43:54,236 -- 00:43:58,133 I just wanted radical so extreme film I could." "I had no idea who film would look like ... or it is even someone look." "There was extraordinary nihilists air." "and that was my motivation at the time." ""Put that thing away." "You've seen too many movies. "" ""Take it!" "Come on, take it."" "'Come on." "Entertains us both a favor. "" "It was a different time." "Much more cynical time." "Economics, politics, end of the war ... the beginning of the Reagan era." "It made people angry." "We wanted to turn everything upside down." "There were many different films he did, but what I did ..." "He was more political." ""Born In Flames" was born The idea that I'm different ... types of people would be able to meet, white and black women together." "I wish people of different languages spoken, uniting under one vision." "In all the films I've made I wanted a female ... position presented." "As most movies only ... male positions represented." ""We have the false promises Too long to hear. "" ""We are all equal could be '..." ""The social democracy."" ""As the rich get richer" ..." ""A waiting weapons dreams that never come true. "" "That began to change." "These women had to do something So they started with peaceful demonstrations ... until one of them is killed." "That is suppressed and therefore should They capture the radio station." "World Trade Center transmitter literally check everything." "We went all the way up and on the roof, and we hid ..." "What looked like a real bomb, and nobody stopped us." "I had a budget of $ 200 and finally found ... someone who is a model of WTC had built." "I blew glitter from ... straw, and film Slowly off ... it looked like an explosion." "It's a strange feeling I Thus, the movie ended, he knew what ..." "WTC happened and loss that I feel about it." "Narrative films do not the most important." "But the politically radical films production was." "Moviemaking deep He entered in this case." "It was a time of "Baader Meinhof" and the Red Brigades." "Political groups in the time of these films Scott and Beth B and inspired me." "When Beth and I started working together We made the film "G-Man"." "We have a different type of film Creation of forests." "Bill's character worked with E.O.D. But in his spare time ..." "SM went to the club." "In this period planted Faln bombs in USA" "It was important that people by pushing the nose on facts." ""What can we do to make it stop terrorism? "" ""We have terrorism iron fist to suppress." "Scott and I have worked as a team." "We did everything together: music, writing, photography." "Beth is a waitress in "Maggoo is' and I stole my lunch there." "Two of us were a good combination." ""We are specialists in Managing Stress "." "Lydia had the "G-Man" and wanted to see The show at Max's Kansas City." "So we said, 'we do a new film." ""We are not interested in the law." "The idea is what is important. "" ""We will destroy our enemies himself, we will change them. "" ""Black Box" was based on Torture Americans ..." "Vietnam uses." "Because it is only Max Club was screened, you could be the public ..." "Indeed bombing shocking images." "We heard that someone Hall ran to surrender." "With the proceeds we could get our first long film, "perpetrators"." "In the spirit of "cans and everything, anything goes, "we decided to ..." "You are using a public television channel." "You were right in people's homes." "We did a lot of good show." "Were you Glenn O'Brien's TV Party which had its own will." ""It's a real show!"" ""This is an emergency broadcast!"" ""All Color News" was the show Beth and Scott B." "And it was a joint project." "Collab consisted of a group of artists ..." "He wanted to make these films together cast and magazines ... and doing TV shows." "And art shows in places This was normal to see the art." "Asked "Time Square Art Show "together." "A question that many their breakthrough artists." "It was an attempt by these ideas the East Village art ghetto to push ..." "We took over the empty building, The landlord gave us free." "It was on the cover of "Village Voice" as radical 80s art show." "There I met Charlie Ahearn first." "I left "The Deadly Art survival you see that ..." "It was part of that A whole movement to get away ... the art world and movies to come closer to reality." "When I decided to lower East Side to start shooting ..." "I had no film crew." "So I was practically invisible." "I came into contact with KungFu school and ask ... if I wanted to make a film with them." "Like all karate movies you Good versus bad schools." "A poor school was called "Disco Dojo." "A sold drugs from Disco Dojo." "Poster for "Deadly Art of Survival "is really ... looks cool Underground film." "When I met Charlie and he He wanted to get together." "And there was a film "Wild Style"." "It was something new which for the future." "Wild Style was huge A new movement in New York ..." "And how to reflect It was a difficult problem." "Various street culture;" "graffiti, music, breakdancing, DJing ..." "Film it all together." "Charlie did before the film went He went to a lot of "jams" in the Bronx ... meet people." "DJ in the movie was a real DJ." "Not actors, but real graffiti artists." "I saw it as a movie that would be seen on 42nd Street." "This meant that the music He had to be good ..." "It had to have a good story and good camera work." "To "Wild Style", embedded seen stand Theater on 42nd Street ..." "It was fantastic for everyone involved." "We have many other types of records broken for Time Square cinema." "It was the second most popular film Terms of Endearment was number one." "We did a presentation on 'The Mudclub "and They brought all these different people are shown." "People from the Bronx, Harlem, Blooklyn Blacks and Hispanics with Punks and new wave." "All those different people were For the first time together." "Punk came from a lack of money and the same was true for Hip Hop." "Pattie Astor and Charlie were the first of the group Lower Eastside ..." "That were inspired What happened in the city." "Pattie brought him into the Lower Eastside in "Fun gallery." ""I look for graffiti artists." " We all graffiti artists." "Pattie had a small room in the basement and building on 11nd Street." "She knew that many artists He looked at the exhibition space." ""Can not these guys."" ""What do they propose?" "Artists? "" ""I do not care arts."" ""Does it mean anything?"" "'Do not worry." "It is a party "." "2 years after he started Galery Fun There were 100 galleries in the East Village." "The gallery was in someone's bathroom." "I was a firefighter in Little Italy and the fire stopped ... for the gallery and I brought it Guests inside." "We went to a lot of holes and survived free food." "Many galleries started well turn and became mainstream." "Wall Street did well, art World grew, and money began to roll." "Jean-Michel Basquiat was the guy who slept on my floor ... we had a lot of fun." "And then suddenly he became very wealthy." "And he changed the situation:" "If you have no money'm not cool." "Before that it was the opposite." "Before that, I still hate him." "Given that messed up mentality a lot of things." "When Jean-Michel was successful Many people associated warned." "Maybe it's time to coin shop in our success." ""Vortex" It was my breakthrough." "Beth and Scott asked me to role and one after another." "For me it was the start of something new, something bigger." "It looked fantastic." ""Hey, little angel."" ""It's been too long."" ""Yes?" "Not long enough for me."" "It was much more expensive and expectations were higher." "It was implicated in what happened to me personally." ""I can not talk right now."" ""I'll call you back."" "Then he went to Scott and Beth B although apart hostile." "It was the last film that Scott and I They did together and ..." "Production was difficult because We could not work together properly." "Although the film attracted much attention." ""People like us can depending on the lifetime of the system." ""And if you're against the system the work that you were there. "" "Vortex played at many film festivals." "And it got more attention than Other films that came when New York." ""Where do you want to live in L.A.?"" ""Malibu"." ""It's in L.A.?" " Is there someplace. "" "People go in different directions Depending on where the first film is brought." "Smithereens was the first of the "Down Town" films that were screened at the Cannes Film Festival." "This led to the production 'Desperately Seeking Susan'." "Smithereens and Stranger Than Paradise and Spike Lee took the things that make us ..." "He moved a culture where we belong and they knew good stories to tell ... and how could return to a broad audience." "When we Stranger Than Paradise I told John Lurrie, you know ... nobody has ever seen this movie so let we make the film we wanted ourselves." ""Hi, I'm Eva." ""Yes, unfortunately." ""You Bela?"" ""No"." ""So I called earlier." "Call me Willie. "" ""Not speaking Hungarian." "As long as you're here to speak only English. "" "The first part I produced a short film based on the ... a story that John and I He wrote together." "I was with the band workout when we came up with the story together." "I play a gambler and Hungarian No one can know my background ... and then my niece comes to me." "When I made the film was cut "Moviola machine ', I thought, two ... other bits make it make a feature film." "We shot the first half hour for the weekend ... and we had a fight with a person who $ 7,000 paid for the first half hour ... and he was jailed, and the negative I stole a 35 mm copy of the negative ... from his office under my raincoat." "There I was rather proud." "At a time when money was finish the film ..." "I got a role as a saint the last temptation of Christ ... so I had a big beard to cultivate." "Those who were not shaved in Jim's movie game, I wanted to work with Scorsese." "But Scorsese matter was postponed." "It took us one and a half year to get the money together ..." "So Eszter Balint, girl games, going 16-18 ... the last part of the film." "I could Eszter from its 14th" "I often got into a squat theater." "It consisted of a group of Hungarian New experimental theater artists who did it ... who all lived together in a house." "They had a pawnshop on 23rd Street." "People from window They were unwittingly part of the event." "Eszter so I knew that." "Richard Edson I knew but not good." "He was the drummer of Sonic Youth." "John (Lurie) and I were friends." "Rockets played Redglare smaller roles with him." "It's just all been noted." "We had just enough film 1½ insists on the scene." "If someone got the flu It would be the end of the film." "After "Stranger" was released ..." "I was here very poor, but suddenly famous." "It was a difficult period for me, though." "If you like "Stranger Than Paradise" was You have to look at real cinema ... and you had to stand in line." "It played in." "It was a transition." "The film reached a wider audience." "It was written on." "Independent film community grew." "Films like "Stranger Than Paradise" and "Variety" and Charlie 'Wild Style'." "We thought to make more films." "Work on the edge of Hollywood." "When the media received through what It happened began to disintegrate." "There was a large group on weekends People in the New Cinema." "The landlord said, "deserves a lot of money now "... and we were able to increase paying rent." "So it was closed." ""White King" played with David Lynch's "Eraser Head." "I was invited to parties with John Belushi and this kind of guests." "And I was totally seduced and all my values ​​went out the window." ""Underground USA" was about the fall of the '70s superstars." "It was a commentary on the rise and fall of my contemporaries." "It was like a snowball but still grew." "Economic aspect changed Rents went up." "A "Celebrity Culture" began change in sample ... that it is today." "Power was again the scene is to be pumped." "The scene became too complacent." "Ideas were mixed with new ideas New people ..." "It remained to continue But this has changed." ""Cinema transgression" was harder and more sex and drugs-oriented ... and it was a natural progression." "I think "Kino offense" "No Wave" movement saw it happen ... and they took them." "It was Nick's idea." "You had otherwise you will forget the title." "The idea of ​​"They Eat Scum" come from how the media demonizes Punk Rock." "I thought, what if I write the script one still nihilistischere youth ... and in case that the group for nuclear power plants He goes and causes an accident like ... terrorist attack." "And so the whole Field radiation." "Amos Poe arrived at the premiere along with John Waters." "The whole idea that I was crazy." ""They Eat Scum" is still ..." "One of my most Favorite movie titles ever." "Wall Street Journal called it goorste movie ever made." ""Please do something to stop it!"" "And I found those negative attention and indignation absolutely crazy." "In 1984, I met Richard Kern and Tommy Turner ..." "Super-8 films made." "I found that rebirth Super-8 was important." "And the time is ripe for "Cinema Make an offense "to the world." "He took other filmmakers on board These films were made on a wall as p ..." "David, Casandra Stark, Lung Leg." "And he wrote a manifesto another name and published it ... the number of film magazines." "Nick ZED manifesto is full anger and humor." "A desire to do something new." "Then it really started to Motion look." "We tried to make movies mullet came, short and full of action." "It was straightforward and "Here I Am" to be." "Anyone who has driven do more extreme things." "If you would like to do something than if." "There could be a lot." "I did what in those days which I would never dare to do ... for fear of being arrested." "The content varies from No Wave films but the origin is the same." "The same confrontational stuff making Beth and I did." "They created there The whole movement around it." "I am trying to push the boundaries and elicit a response." "Scott B and B had Beth A great influence on my filmmaking." "And I made my first film with their super-8 camera." "Beth and Scott had just divorced and Beth went with a friend ... ..." "No, she went with Nick Zedd." "It was a group of people who all lived in central New York ... so they had relationships and then She broke again and went with someone else." "But it's funny, or Cinema Transgression was Nick ... intentionally threw oil on the fire with all those relationships." "He was dropped by Lydia Lunch and He made a film about being dumped by Lydia." "Lydia took to London." "And what came out there was a film Wild World of Lydia Lunch." "I wanted to capture this moment on film." "The film was, I walk the streets with "fuck off and leave me alone" ... tape I sent him as the soundtrack." "I was not happy about it." "But I always had respect for Nick." "It was a great writer." "Just had such a negative The air around him." "As if suddenly a huge factor entered." "People fled." "Even though he did nothing people hated him." "I always intimidated." "But to see him on the projector booth with a smile, it was really touching." "I thought, "Thrust in Me", which I a woman and a man playing." "I was hoping to offend people with him." "Posters for the film, which I liked Woman pictured standing has been damaged." "And that was exactly the reaction I was hoping for." "I wanted to offend homophobes." "Nick plays so that he sex himself." "And then commits suicide." "I worked on 'The Manhattan Love Suicide "and thought it fit him." "Manhattan Love Suicides Deals people are so crazy about each other ... they kill." "Richard Kern heard my music and He asked if it could be used for the film." "Without a budget, the work of a film They were funny, but the emotion ... so more than he did." "It was on the top, Almost Dada-istic." "Richards films are all funny film about sex." "Very funny and politically courageous films about sex." "People wore ideas and It is like a snapshot of the time." "He said, I turn on the camera and you do what you want." "You had this new generation this gave insight into their sexual feelings." "And it was fun, adventurous, and extremely hot." "Lydia was someone worshiped from afar." "Richard and I felt onmoette he was really on." "Our partnership felt so natural." "The right side of my brain was my question for the ... confident woman mind." "It was purely instinctive." "And now Richard exactly what I wanted." "Lydia had "sketches" a couple He wrote and asked if I ..." "He wanted to act in one of his scenes." "I had the "right side of my brain Made Lydia and people like ... pornographic and sexist." "And I said, wait until you see the next film." "We try to be as offensive How is it possible." "I "Fingered" I saw Lydia Lunch." "This was one of the most awesome, funny ... scary and strange movie I have ever seen." "It's a deadline verknaller psychotics." "If you were dating and married his girlfriend to "Fingered" and she said ... the film was a gift." "Then you know that You can expect to have sex." "But what kind of sex?" "The right side of my brain and were Fingered psycho therapy for the public." "Since no one at the time, about this kind of love for anxiety." "It was the expansion of gewelddagige." "Fueled riots, Charles Manson The Son of Sam." "And I designed the trauma out." "You will be beaten and then turn your back." "The name sounds like a porno film." "But it was the intention of the people let despise sex." "It was actually "anti-porn." "We showed what we themselves were not so shocking ..." "But people feel really offended." ""Fingers" bait really whistling outside." ""Fingered" as realistic." "It seemed like a snuff film." "I do not think they ever trust snuff movies are made, but ..." "It contributed to Explicit of those films." "It at every moment something Grof could really happen." "Shocking was really important because it helped people wake up." "I was invited to the Berlin Film Festival show "Fingered"." "It was the premiere." "He was portrayed with John Waters film, and yet ..." "Before the shooting hearing Those Boos." "I went to the podium and said:" "This film was made for people like you." "DEATH TRAP!" "The rest went projections from chaotic there." "But I came there On the front of the "Variety"." "After they are beaten screening of the reaction." "It's not applause, but opposite." "The worst thing would be if no one did anything." "I was invited to Sweden arrive at the airport and ..." "I was arrested Police because I did movies with me." "I was put in a cell for a while They studied my films." "I was told that I was three years He can get the production of these films." "When he discovered my lawyer scrambled Authorities already back ..." "But I was not movies exhibit in Sweden." "So I took my movies and showed them in Sweden." "To protest against art and film It is absolutely ridiculous in my opinion." "It's always nice to work with Richard because it has so much fun in his work." "Sometimes, the camera shaking as he laughing so hard." "He's a little erratic version Clark Kent." "People had image in a bad filmmaker." "I made 'Evil Cameraman "as the answer to those comments ... these people had in me." "I felt at the end of that This could be my own paranoia." "This can happen, as Warhol film and someone shot me." "There were violent stigma about the movies." "But even then circulated There are video copies." "Lydia said that it is now the new home video is in." "We must take advantage." "So I started these movies on video by mail To sell and it ran storm." "Richard wanted to do things We never dared with our films." "But if you then look to mainstream movies Our films are harmless in comparison." "The culture in which we fought It is now more widely accepted." "We are now more willing to overlook talking about sex and politics." "They said that it should not then at the Museum Modern Art, but that soon changed." "However, it was demonstrated in The Museum of Modern Art." "When Picasso showed his work It was the first time nothing." "But now, it is useful arts." "We worked with a limited budget that freed us from the need to make profits." "But people who pornography and exploitation of horrors based their decisions on profit expectations." "That is why our films are sincere." "Nick Zedd doing it for the money." "He is not commercial." "I was attracted by this type of people." "And if those people have other values It is quite interesting." "Those filmmakers appeared in a very special time." "America was the right-hander after Reagan became president." "Thatcher in England." "Nick Zedd's film Agreement Cold war and capitalism." "Especially in the case of "Men Bogus"." "A "War is Mentrual Envy" as." "Have you been to 80 A the real threat of nuclear war." "Does it happen or not?" "And that threat can be found at films of the era." "Many artists thought they would end up behind a high wall ... or anytime wiped Such action could." "They thought that their freedom of expression every moment can end." "Many right politicie insisted no public funds were spent ... for artworks, which are tasteless or considered anti-social." "It became a sort of Philip K. Dick iaans era in which ..." "It seems that nothing makes sense and everything is unreal." "Maybe we live in five years on Mars." "Everything seems like a weird Sci-fi film." "All great change in America start dinner." "So I hope that tomorrow night talk while eating ..." "And children, if your parents do not tells how to be a good American ... let them know there is a pick up." "That is what would make a good American." ""You killed me first" was a big a film about a struggling family." "Karen Finley, David Wojnarowicz and Lung Leg." "I tried to shoot mind put down." "I thought, if I do it, everybody The story has a clear position." "It's about a family who oppress their daughter and daughter to come back and kill her family." ""You killed me first 'plays those who preach family values ​​Reagan." ""You killed me First" was inspired on true stories." "Most of them were based on David Wojnarowicz's own experience." "He was attracted to Cinema transgressions ..." "But he was also repelled because he was much more confrontational with ... the basic political will, because busy him because of his AIDS related directly." "He wanted these homophobic, racist Denouncing the government." "This caused much politically charged art." "And David Wojnarowicz found on the front line." "Reagan did everything to investigate AIDS slowdown." "So knowing that for a long time We have nothing about this disease." "Klaus Nomi was one of the first who this mysterious disease." "Suddenly, more and more people are sick or have died ... and people started me confide their secrets." ""Do not tell anyone but I hivpositief." "A lot of people told me ... and one of my brother there." "So keep these secrets it was very hard for me." "Because you knew that ... it was like they were in the arena against wall standing, ready to be released." "Did you see the empty city." "We do not even know how many We then lost souls." "It was the general mood where we then lived." "Life and death are close to each other." "This happened at the same time as when people have expensive dinners ..." "Andy Warhol in a tent and bottles Crystal left and right on the table ... and we drove into the limousine and There you have it Madonna and Keith Haring." "And then undercurrent of anxiety among all the festivities." "All who responded to filmmakers economic and social events." "But they responded very differently." "It had a magical element." "The idea to shoot yourself ..." "And Cassandra made films about Life on the Lower East Side at the time." "There was a vulnerability innocence in these films." "A incomprehensible interpretation reality." "And because I was in love with her I found that quite funny results." "My landlord had illegally a way to put your name on the document ... and the police came to my house and dumped the contents of her wardrobe ... in moving boxes and clocks everything was loaded into a truck ... a man said to be homeless I'll drive you to sleep?" "Your possessions are in a warehouse in the Bronx Can I take on one of the homeless sleep." "Landlords put their own buildings on fire for the insurance sum." "A lot of people were just put on the street." "This was when the top Lower East Side has been refurbished." "To rid the area, allegedly, drug dealers and undesirable elements ..." "The mayor put a policy in motion on the neighborhood, make it attractive for wealthier citizens." "The government sent police and He started bothering us." "I decided to do satire their behavior in the movie "police state"." "In the mid-80s L.E. Side infested with drugs." "It looked like the government of heroin District eaves of eradicating it and ... then they could pick up the building." "Drug destroyed much creative energy." "It was heartbreaking." "I was afraid of Richard's films because they were too confrontational for me." "Cassandra Stark had complete Cinema rejection offense." "Nick Zedd announced that Some of these people were deceased." "Then there were rumors Nick's own death." "And when I played Seeking a way out of the drug." "Once Kino offense was He announced that began quarreling among elkaaar." "And it suppressed consensus in the event that any at all." "There was much bickering among themselves." "It sounds silly, but You had all these little rivalry." "Yes, I would like once again Richard the pan upside strike." "I wanted to work on my own films." "It has nothing to do with Nick Zedd ... or a manifesto." "Events in Downtown East Village He reached a peak." "There appeared a police riot and they He held a big fence around ... rotate Tompkin Square Park." "Fence with barbed wire." "This reminded me of Eastern Europe." "During the Cold War." "At the same time began MTV to be great." "That was the end to "Downtown" and ... and the beginning of the commercialization from "Downtown"." "You have a certain political and economic changes and it was ... the land of plenty for owners and the art world there killed." "New York has always Turned handeltjes." "It is built on a warped and money matters." "It started as a trading post." "And as the city grew around it." "It's always been all about business, trade and crime ... and what is the one from the other can steal." "And so it is now only it relates to the property." "I was given quite suddenly from my house." "And I wish the landlord to return." "I completely destroyed the house." "One hand and throw something with the other, that the shooting." "You could not see to do something flew across the room." "It was kind of a tornado." "That whole period was filmatische time." "It was not formed." "It was a purposeful survival." "People have a lot of risks and many went dead." "And if there are influences of his work from this period to the left, then it may be the reason." "It was such a rough time." "Whether acute Heroin Addiction was ..." "1155 01:26:09,731 -- 01:26:11,831 or hardcore music ... or to minimalist film." "It was all about my limits explore and cheat death." "Nobody was reluctant." "Nobody tried to make beautiful things or idealize." "They said the ugly naked truth ... how they feel and live." "Therefore, Kino offense No Wave and still such a strong influence." "These films were made with passion." "They were perhaps naive or badly made ... but they had the integrity that Visible to go." "Indie Films ..." "This is the place where the movement started." "With the type of films we've done." "When I started working as an actor I missed that mentality ... from that time, when people They worked together and inspired each other." "So I tried it to create for themselves." "We have tried to make the film more accessible that goes beyond the big corporations." "That is now changing, thanks what we did then." "But it is still difficult raise money for the film." "With the internet and availability technology to keep your own records or films ... and self publishing wereldweid You do not need to go to Hollywood." "But at that time it was the only place to go could go and the idea that you cared." "Means, which now have a computer and technology has completely democratized filmmaking." "We could then only sen." "And it has our attention changed the world." "The most important thing for me the power of thought and expression." "This is the main the power that people have." "I like to think of all those lying murderous thieves who have all the political power ... and financial strength." "Everything that power can not compete power of ideas." "So I say forget the past and let the future come." "Translated and subtitled by: - ​​EdEditz " "Checking and Editing:" "Goffin"