Llik Your Idols

Llik Your Idols plunges you right into the New York undergound scene of the nineteen-eighties. Through steamy excerpts, exclusive interviews (Richard Kern, Lydia Lunch, Joe Coleman, Thurston Moore...), in-your-face performances and previously unreleased photographs, Llik Your Idols retraces the chaotic story of transgressive cinema. In New York, in the beginning of the nineteen-eighties, this spontaneous movement, monster child of Reaganism, definitively broke free of the codes set by avant-gardism and the classic conventions of storytelling. As ephemeral as a suicide, as sensual as it is sexual, transgressive cinema created for itself improbable links between Warhol, Dadaism and the punk attitude. Kern, Nick Zed, Lunch and Coleman, antiheroes of a lost generation, were its leading actors. Sonic Youth, The Swans and Foetus were its leading bands.