Nick Zedd

While few of these films were commercial successes, they provide a glimpse of the passions that fueled the East Village art scene during a creative highpoint. These low-budget, Super-8 productions embody the period’s do-it-yourself ethos, as well as, the fusion of art, music and club culture that animated the downtown…

Over the weekend, news of the death of the underground filmmaker and East Village legend, Nick Zedd, reverberated over the Internet and set off numerous tributes. The uncompromising filmmaker lived hard, and died in near-poverty in Mexico City from complications of cirrhosis of the liver, hepatitis C, and cancer.