Lydia Lunch Live

  • 45'
  • USA
  • 2020

As illustrated in Beth B’s recent documentary portrait The War Is Never Over, controversial singer, musician, actress, writer and poet Lydia Lunch treats language as an instrument for self-empowerment. Will Work for Drugs; So Real It Hurts; The Gun Is Loaded and Paradoxia: A Predator’s Diary: the titles of her books alone set the tone for a special evening of provocative prose.

Best known for the intensity of her music, both solo and with a whole string of collaborative line-ups (from Teenage Jesus and the Jerks to Big Sexy Noise), the totemic figurehead of No Wave cinema and music brings a spoken word set that typically targets the patriarchy and institutions of power. While her archive has found a new home at the New York University, 60-year-old Lydia Lunch is as unapologetic and incendiary as ever.
 
Lydia Lunch Live is preceded by a unique screening of the rediscovered Stiletto by Melvie Arslanian.

Director
Lydia Lunch
Country of production
USA
Year
2020
Festival Edition
IFFR 2020
Length
45'
Language
English
Director
Lydia Lunch
Country of production
USA
Year
2020
Festival Edition
IFFR 2020
Length
45'
Language
English