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War is menstrual envy
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
