Lydia Lunch

AKA: Lydia Anne Koch
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1959-06-02

Rochester, New York, USA

Biography

Lydia Lunch is an American singer, poet, writer, actress and self-empowerment speaker, whose career was spawned by the New York no wave scene. Her work typically features provocative and confrontational noise music delivery, and has maintained an anti-commercial ethic, operating independently of major labels and distributors.

Crew Roles

Post-Apocalyptic Cowgirls
Music
Lydia Lunch: Malicious Intent
Writer
Disturbtion
Music
Fingered
Music
Fingered
Writer
Goodbye 42nd Street
Music
Thanatopsis
Writer
Vortex
Music
The Return of Post Apocalyptic Cowgirls
Music
Flood Stains
Screenplay
Us
Music
Kill Us All
Writer
Flood Stains
Music
Lydia Lunch: Video Hysterie: 1978 - 2006
Music
The Right Side of My Brain
Writer
Kill Us All
Producer
The Right Side of My Brain
Music
Kill Us All
Music
The Gun Is Loaded
Writer
Kiss Napoleon Goodbye
Writer
Unfaithful
Music
My Lover The Killer
Music
Road Rant: A Week on the Road with Lydia Lunch
Writer
Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {67}

Self

2004-04-08 7.3

Kill Your Idols

A 2004 documentary on thirty years of alternative rock 'n roll in NYC.Documenting the history from the genuine authenticity of No Wave to the current generation of would be icons and true innovators s ...
Genre :Documentary, Music

Self

2001-07-19 0

Kiss My Grits: The Herstory of Women in Punk and Hard Rock

Part of "The Women in Music" series ...
Genre :Documentary, Music

Herself

1997-01-01 0

Lunch on Kern

Featuring Lydia Lunch and the photography of Richard Kern. Teaser for an arté doc [Chris Habib] made as a kid ...
Genre :Documentary

Angel Powers

1982-09-01 5.6

Vortex

A film noirish atmosphere is created to show detective Lunch (a popular underground musician and poet) plow her way through the plans of a corporate businessman who seeks government defense contracts ...
Genre :Thriller

Narrator

1984-04-09 4.778

The Right Side of My Brain

Lydia Lunch and Richard Kern's first collaborative effort, The Right Side of My Brain, is a glimpse into the world of unsatiable female lust, narrated by Lydia Lunch. The film was initially dismissed ...
Genre :Drama

1986-08-19 5.235

Fingered

One of Richard Kern’s most ambitious works is Fingered (1986), whose sarcastic disclaimer says “although it is not our sole intention to shock, insult, or irritate, you have been warned that we are ca ...
Genre :Crime, Horror, Thriller

2010-12-02 6

Fake Orgasm

Lazlo Pearlman is a conceptual artist, an activist capable of dinamiting our prejudices about sex and identity. What it seems to be a reflexion about lies in our sexual lives suddenly turns out to be ...
Genre :Documentary

Self - Interviewee

2009-12-21 4.773

Mutantes: Punk Porn Feminism

Mutantes sheds light on a feminism that was little talked about in France. This documentary comprises of a series of interviews conducted in the USA, Paris and Barcelona, and documents from the archiv ...
Genre :Documentary

Herself

1983-01-01 3.3

The Wild World of Lydia Lunch

Shot entirely in Ireland and England on film stolen by Nick Zedd, the movie offers a rare glimpse into the unique private world of Lydia Lunch; The footage "narrated" by a break-up cassette sent from ...
Genre :Drama

Self

2009-07-03 10

No Wave - Underground '80: Berlin - New York

the connections and energy flow between the various artists populating the 1980s sub-cultures of New York and Berlin. Features Jim Jarmusch, Lydia Lunch, Blixa Bargeld, Alex Hacke, Gudrun Gut, Nick Ca ...
Genre :Music, Documentary

Herself

1991-05-22 0

Thanatopsis

Beth B, in collaboration with legendary downtown performance artist/musician Lydia Lunch, creates a chilling yet poetic vision of despairing nihilism -- literally, a "meditation on death." In this noi ...
Genre :

Herself

2006-08-11 7.8

Kill Your Idols: More.

A full-length feature documentary produced in 2006 which serves as a companion piece to and is included on the DVD of the 2004 film KILL YOUR IDOLS. ...
Genre :Documentary, Music

Hedda

1990-01-01 5

Kiss Napoleon Goodbye

Punk icons Lydia Lunch and Henry Rollins star in this cult drama about a pregnant pianist named Hedda whose marriage to husband Neal (Don Bajema) hits the skids with the sudden appearance of a mysteri ...
Genre :Drama

Herself

2007-07-30 4

Llik Your Idols

Discover the New York underground scene during the 80s and throw yourself into an exciting, anarchic and repulsive world that you won't forget. ...
Genre :Documentary, Music

1978-01-01 7.5

She Had Her Gun All Ready

Two women – one passive and resigned, the other aggressive and domineering – interact in various locations in New York city. The film explores the dynamic between them before ending with a showdown at ...
Genre :Drama, Crime, Romance

(archive footage)

2012-02-21 7.7

The Hardcore Collection

This DVD features 13 provocative short films by Richard Kern. Color & B&W film shorts with Lydia Lunch, Henry Rollins and more. Includes Death Valley 69 , The Right Side Of My Brain, You Killed Me Fir ...
Genre :Drama

Self

2012-03-26 0

Wild Thing

A documentary about The Troggs (performers of Wild Thing) and other Rock bands. ...
Genre :Documentary

1982-06-02 10

DANCE OF THE DEAD CHILDREN

Genre :Horror

1979-01-02 7

Beauty Becomes the Beast

Beauty Becomes the Beast describes a random access world mediated by TV images and shards of popular culture. The film features a powerful performance by Lydia Lunch regressing from adulthood to child ...
Genre :Drama

1980-12-09 0

Raw Nerves: A Lacanian Thriller

A noir mostly set in a bathroom stall and stairwell. A private dick trapped in a tight spot. A narrator searching for a way out of the story. ...
Genre :Crime, Thriller

1980-01-02 0

The Offenders

A punk savage satire about a kidnapping. ...
Genre :Drama

Herself

1993-01-01 7

No Age New York

A scattershot documentary about punk rock film makers in New York, with contributions from Lydia Lunch, Henry Rollins, Richard Kern, Beth B, Nick Zedd and many others. A love letter to the New York Un ...
Genre :Documentary

Sitter

1996-11-19 3.333

Visiting Desire

Complete strangers meet in a room to act out their sexual desires. ...
Genre :Documentary

1994-09-05 0

Lydia Lunch: Malicious Intent

Collection of live spoken word performances by Lydia Lunch. ...
Genre :

Empress

1978-12-23 6.4

Rome '78

Nares mocks up Ancient Rome by shooting in faux-classical sites including Tribeca's American Thread Building, where a decrepit penthouse loft with a peeling-paint dome serves as an echoey stand-in for ...
Genre :History, Drama

1986-01-01 5.095

Submit to Me

Cinema of Transgression pioneers and participants (Lydia Lunch, Lung Leg, Nick Zedd, etc.) perform a series of acts as they submit to director Richard Kern's camera. Originally created for DTNY acid p ...
Genre :Horror

1997-01-01 0

Richard Kern - Portrait: Live From New York

Haxan Films-produced documentary on Richard Kern's work around 1997. Footage from his photo sessions, interviews with Kern and his models, etc. Features associates such as Lydia Lunch, Beth B and more ...
Genre :Documentary

1983-01-01 8

Like Dawn to Dust

Lydia Lunch laments the difficulty of relationships in the wilds of Connemara, Ireland. ...
Genre :

1987-01-01 4.412

Submit to Me Now

Oddballs dancing, leering at camera, guy shaving a nontraditional part of his body and man ripping his own throat out, woman stabbing herself to death. ...
Genre :Horror, Music

Self

2011-10-27 7.5

Autoluminescent: Rowland S. Howard

From myth to legend Rowland Howard appeared on the early Melbourne punk scene like a phantom out of Kafkaesque Prague or Bram Stoker’s Dracula. A beautifully gaunt and gothic aristocrat, the unique di ...
Genre :Documentary, Music

Herself

1978-01-01 7.2

Guerillere Talks

This experimental short consists of eight unedited rolls of super-8 film, each of which profiles an individual woman in real time. The women engage in everyday behaviour, such as playing pinball or re ...
Genre :Documentary

Bub (voice)

2010-05-25 5.4

Godkiller: Walk Among Us

Even in a postapocalyptic future in which Earth has been colonized by aliens, humans need hearts to live, so when an orphan boy's sister needs a new one, he'll go to just about any length to get it in ...
Genre :Animation, Science Fiction

Herself

1989-12-16 4.2

The Gun Is Loaded

At the end of the Reagan years, rocker and confrontational performance artist Lydia Lunch launches a broadside. From a formal podium, she attacks the white male power structure of the US. Next she tak ...
Genre :Music

Torturer

1979-11-20 4.25

Black Box

An innocent youth is abducted and dragged down into a dystopian nightmare where teenage Lydia Lunch throws him into the Black Box. ...
Genre :Horror

Herself

1986-05-08 7

Barbecue Death Squad From Hell

Lydia Lunch and Penn & Teller jazz up the Jenkins' family picnic home movie, turning it into a backyard SOV slasher. ...
Genre :Comedy, Horror

La chanteuse

2012-03-12 5.5

Bye Bye Blondie

A love story of two women who meet up in their late forties and attempt to retrieve the romance they had in their youth. ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama, Romance

Prologue

1988-04-22 4.3

Mondo New York

A young woman wanders around New York City and stumbles across a number of strange characters and settings that represent the "underground" areas of the city. She sees stand up comedy in Central Park, ...
Genre :Documentary

Herself

2009-05-15 6

NYC Foetus

A documentary about composer/producer/performer JG Thirlwell and his musical alter-egos, including Foetus, Steroid Maximus and Manorexia. Featuring interviews with Thirlwell, Matt Johnson (The The), A ...
Genre :Music, Documentary

2009-01-01 0

For the End of Time

For the End of Time is a film about the mind… a film about the body and our inability to merge these two entities which are shaping a form of civilization known under the term “human”. A human is not ...
Genre :Fantasy

Herself

1988-08-06 7

Put More Blood Into the Music

PBS produced documentary in two parts: the first is dedicated to saxophonist and composer John Zorn; the second is about Sonic Youth at the height of their powers in 1988. ...
Genre :Documentary, Music

Self

2017-10-13 7

L7: Pretend We're Dead

A real time journey witnessing the rise, fall, and ultimate redemption of the fierce feminist pioneers of American grunge punk: L7. ...
Genre :Documentary

Self

2011-04-06 7.1

Blank City

In the years before Ronald Reagan took office, Manhattan was in ruins. But true art has never come from comfort, and it was precisely those dire circumstances that inspired artists like Jim Jarmusch, ...
Genre :Documentary

Herself

2008-01-01 0

Lydia Lunch: Video Hysterie: 1978 - 2006

This fascinating and retrospective look at the music of the outspoken and multitalented Lydia Lunch represents every stage of her varied career, with featured songs such as "I Woke Up Screaming" from ...
Genre :Music

1981-04-02 6.5

Subway Riders

A psychotic saxophone player lures victims to deserted spots with his music and then guns them down. ...
Genre :Thriller

Performer

1996-09-29 0

Baby Trouble Hole

Malga Kubiak stars in her exploration of sex and self. One woman's love to her own body interlaced with maggots; mixes x-rated porn. Voyeuristically titillating this avant-garde study of horrors of se ...
Genre :

Narrator

2008-06-06 0

Death of the Reel

Guy Maddin flies to Kansas City, Missouri, in a vain attempt to save cinema as it continues to die from contempt and neglect. ...
Genre :

Saltmaster

2010-11-20 0

Flood Stains

Renowned artist Lydia Lunch joins architect Juan Azulay in an experimental performance broadcast live from the SCI-Arc Gallery. ...
Genre :

2014-01-31 0

Kill Us All

Poetic seductress Lydia Lunch describes the destructive nature of a broken human before partaking in physical abuse of grown men with her younger counterpart. ...
Genre :

1987-03-18 6.4

Penn & Teller's Invisible Thread

Penn Jillette and Teller are called upon to display their unique brand of humor to save civilization from strange extraterrestrial beings who have invaded Earth and who, disgruntled and bored with the ...
Genre :Comedy, Science Fiction, TV Movie

Social Worker #2

2004-09-15 5.8

The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things

Young Jeremiah lives in a stable environment with loving foster parents until the day his troubled mother, Sarah, returns to claim him. Jeremiah becomes swept up in his mother's dangerous world of dru ...
Genre :Drama

Night (voice)

2014-12-09 0

The Circular Ruins

Six days of shooting through the desert deathscape, Mojave motels with bug blankets and bone white rocks, future retro Reno motels with pink light bulbs where we shot in kimonos and 7 inch heels until ...
Genre :

Narrator

2005-01-20 1

American Fame Pt. 2: Forgetting Jonathan Brandis

Cam Archer revisits the life of child actor Jonathan Brandis who committed suicide in 2003. Lydia Lunch narrates this meditation on fame, the actor’s pressure to remain in the public eye and the surre ...
Genre :

1984-12-01 0

School of Shame

The film starts off with an eight minute concert sequence shot in the summer of '84 at a club called Eight BC in NYC. The band consists of Lydia Lunch, Pat Place and Connie Burg all playing guitars on ...
Genre :

Herself - Interviewee

2002-01-01 4.7

D.I.Y. or Die: How to Survive as an Independent Artist

This documentary features interviews with Ian MacKaye (Fugazi), J Mascis (Dinosaur jr.), John John Jesse (Demonic Erotic painter), Jim Rose (Jim Rose Sideshow), Jim Thirwell (Foetus), Lydia Lunch, Mik ...
Genre :Documentary

Self

1989-01-01 5

Gang of Souls: A Generation of Beat Poets

Maria Beatty's documentary exploring the insights and influences of the American Beat Poets. The film conveys their consciousness and sensibility through interviews with William Burroughs, Allen Ginsb ...
Genre :

Herself

1978-09-26 6

Punking Out

The film documents the beginning of the punk rock movement in New York City at CBGB's, a punk night club, and the lifestyle that revolves around this scene. It presents a sometimes shocking look at th ...
Genre :Documentary

2019-10-25 3

Spit and Ashes

Spit and Ashes is a reimagining of the historical violence waged against women by patriarchal forces in the name of religion, medicine and family. The High Priestess embodies the wild, sexual and grot ...
Genre :Fantasy, Mystery

Self

2019-08-15 7

Lydia Lunch: The War Is Never Over

The first career-spanning documentary retrospective of Lydia Lunch's confrontational, acerbic and always electric artistry. As New York City's preeminent No Wave icon from the late 70's, Lunch has for ...
Genre :Documentary

Self

1987-01-01 6.7

Cruel Tricks for Dear Friends

Penn & Teller's Cruel Tricks for Dear Friends is a straight-to-video release by magicians Penn & Teller on Lorimar Home Video in 1987. The tape features seven different swindles or tricks that the hom ...
Genre :Comedy

2020-09-02 0

My Lover The Killer

My Lover the Killer is the former title of the album by Lydia Lunch & Marc Hurtado released in 2016. The music, first languorous then abrasive, accompanies the verbal flow of the transgressive poetess ...
Genre :Documentary, Music

2006-11-26 0

Her Noise - The Making Of

Her Noise was an exhibition which took place at South London Gallery in 2005 with satellite events at Tate Modern and Goethe-Institut, London. Her Noise gathered international artists who use sound to ...
Genre :

Self

1994-07-07 0

Die Haut - Sweat

Die Haut filmed live at Tempodrom, Berlin, August 1992. Featuring guest vocalists Alexander Hacke, Anita Lane, Blixa Bargeld, Kid Congo Powers, Lydia Lunch and Nick Cave. ...
Genre :Music

Self

1979-06-30 0

No New York Festival - Berlin

The "No New York Festival" on a tour of Europe. This concert is at SO36, Kreuzberg, Berlin, where a sprawling variety of bands and musicians related to the NNNF performed. ...
Genre :Documentary, Music

Self

1979-01-01 0

Alien Portrait

Filmed at CBGB’s, New York City at a Teenage Jesus & The Jerks concert on January 13th, 1978. The film shows the band members’ heads in slow motion over a live concert soundtrack. ...
Genre :

Self

2012-01-01 5

Road Rant: A Week on the Road with Lydia Lunch

The X-rated cartoon animations of Emmy award winning director/animator Merrill Aldighieri add a comical edge to this intense documentary with Lydia Lunch, a second collaboration after their first succ ...
Genre :Music

Self (archive footage)

2020-11-21 7.2

70 Years of Youth Revolt

A look back at the social movements, revolts and youth subcultures from the post-war period to the present day: after the World War II, the left-bank of Paris became a mecca for jazz and alternative l ...
Genre :Documentary, War & Politics

Self

2016-07-11 0

The Ripple Effect

Genre :Documentary