WAR IS MENSTRUAL ENVY
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75 minutes
With:
Kembra Pfahler
Annie Sprinkle
Steven Oddo
Mike Wilson
"The greatest underground film ever made" - Taylor Mead
"...The scenes ran the gamut from starkly depressing to a kind of violent psychedelia." - Boston Rock
"...Forbidden, maybe even evil, perverted, ungodly." - Jonas Mekas
"...Thought-provoking." - Tucson Citizen
War is menstrual envy is even further out in the Zeddzone, painting a space and characters that are completely alien to anything on this earth, yet so filled with patos and humanity that they hit like a sledgehammer. Is it a great movie in the same sense that Citizen Kane is great ? NO, but that aint Zeddīs goal either What it is is a great personal statement, the purest posible vision of the heart and soul of the creator. Itīs great filmmaking. Now I had some idea of what I was dealing with. Iconoclast. Uncompromising. Opinionated. Control freak. Most likely translation: arrogant pain in the ass. Still, anyone who could create something so raw and packed with emotional power had to be worth a shot. - Jay Sosnicki
Nick Zedd, one of the major forces in New York underground cinema premiered his multi-screen opus WAR IS MENSTRUAL ENVY at the Nothing Sacred bash in North Hollywood. The film, a loosely connected series of images played out on dual screenes, focuses on the collision of iconographic imagery with modern perceptions. These images ranging from beautiful to horrific, erotic to violent, mythological to industrial, literally overwhelm the senses. Zedd, founder of the cinema of transgression, has a clear sense of what personal filmmaking is all about. WAR IS MENSTRUAL ENVY plays upon his own fears and dreams, dragging the viewer along into the maelstrom of creative, unconscious thought. - Martin Banner