TOTEM OF THE DEPRAVED

"Nick Zedd´s films are legendary - he is a truly seminal figure in the
New York underground. Now we have his first book, and I recommend
it to anyone interested in the rough underside of our overly-processed
culture." - Jim Jarmush

"Totem of the depraved is a sort of ´Bitter Tears of Petra von Zedd` a,
venomous, vile, but hilariosusly funny autobiography of underground
filmmaker Nick Zedd, who you can practically feel biting your hand as you read this book.
Show business never looked so grim." - John Waters

"The combination of Zedd´s vicious scorn for his enemies/moral inferiors
with a kind of resigned, Christ-like vulnerability to love, along with his
devoted worship of those true to their obsessed missions of outrage
in the face of all obstacles and conventions...always blows my mind.
I´m into him. You´ll laugh, you´ll gasp, you´ll get real annoyed. He´s an
immortal. I mean it." - Richard Hell

"Totem of the Depraved is an outrageous personal crawl through New
York´s film underground. Nick Zedd, a founder of "the Cinema of
Transgression", pulls no punches as he examines his life and loves
during the creation of his inimitable movies. By turns morally bankrupt
and idealistic, disgudting and diverting, frightening and funny,
`Totem of the depraved` is a fascinating snapshot of an artistic
subculture that rfuses to comfort, compromise, or conform."
- John Payson, director of Joe´s Apartment

"There is a tremendous and unbound, uninhibited imagination
present in his work... forbiden, maybe even evil, perverted,
ungodly." - Jonas Mekas, filmmaker

Totem of the Depraved is available from 2.13.61 publications,
136 pages.

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