“We are surrounded by everything you ever want,” purrs artist Andrew Logan, inviting viewers of homotopia.tv into the Glasshouse, his studio in London.[i] The Glasshouse resembles a Technicolor tumble through the looking glass if Alice sniffed poppers. His Pee-Wee’s Playhouse-esque studio is filled with giant eggs, regal tributes to Pegasus, and sculptures dedicated to outrageous … Continue reading
Tag Archives: Cinema of Transgression
Penetrating the Punctum: Decay and Deformity in Luther Price’s ‘The Dry Remains’
“The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.” –Samuel Beckett, The End Game Whether canvases covered in oozing fibroids and cancerous tumors, uncanny sculptures resembling the preserved citizens of Pompeii or his destroyed slides that only heighten the alarming nature of his unsettling imagery, Luther Price’s work takes abjection to its absolute … Continue reading
5 Films/Videos You Need To Survive This Endless Snowy Winter
Instead of giving into murderous ice and snow-driven rage, sweetest soggy Filthy Dreams readers, let’s try to get through this chilly crisis together with 5 films/videos that will warm your heart, dry your bones and potentially put a spring in your step. Continue reading
You Killed Me First: The Only Film Needed To Ruin Your Family’s Thanksgiving
Imagine the scene: Dinner is finished and you gather your family around your favorite computer/TV screen and turn on Cinema of Transgression deviant Richard Kern’s You Killed Me First. Continue reading
Filthy Dream’s 5 Films/Videos To Watch If You Hate BBQ’s On Labor Day Weekend
Inspired by my barbeque defection, here’s a list of transgressive, trashy, demented and thoroughly queer underground films and videos you can watch to help you endure the family vacation, block party, barbeque madness. Continue reading
Why Do My Eyes Have To See This: The Cinematic Transgression of Nick Zedd
This week, I was told that I write from a “contrarian personal sensibility,” and you know what, they’re right. I believe in bad taste and bad bars, in Russ Meyer and John Waters, in terrible kitsch and even worse camp. I was weened on contrarians and outlaws like Kathy Acker, Lydia Lunch and Dennis Cooper.I believe in transcendence through transgression, trash, humor, shock and filth, which brings me to the subversive cinema of Nick Zedd. Continue reading