No Wave Cinema was a nearly nine year boom (1976-1985) in underground filmmaking on the Lower East Side neighborhood of New York City. Its name, much like its cousin No Wave music, was a stripped down style of guerilla/punk filmmaking that emphasized mood and texture above everything else. This brief movement, also known as “New Cinema” (after a short-lived screening room on St. Mark’s Place run by several filmmakers on the scene), had a significant impact on both underground film, spawning the Cinema of Transgression (Beth B, Richard Kern, Nick Zedd, Tessa Hughes Freeland and others) and a new generation of independent feature filmmaking in New York (Jim Jarmusch, Tom DiCillo, Steve Buscemi and Vincent Gallo), as well as the new movement of Remodernist film. The first use of the term underground film occurs in a 1957 essay by American film critic Manny Farber, Underground Films. ... Categories: Manhattan neighborhoods | Stub ... Midtown Manhattan, looking north from the Empire State Building, 2005 New York City (officially named the City of New York) is the most populous city in the United States, and is at the center of international finance, politics, entertainment, and culture. ... No Wave was a short-lived but influential offshoot of punk rock centered in New York City during the late 1970s and early 1980s. ... Look up Punk in Wiktionary, the free dictionary Punk can have the following meanings: Relating to culture Punk is a set of social and political beliefs, morals and standards that indicate an absolute rejection of conformity. ... Richard Kern (born 1954) is a New York underground filmmaker and photographer. ... Nick Zedd, a New York City based filmmaker and author, coined the term Cinema of Transgression in 1985 to describe a loose-knit group of like-minded artists using shock value and humor in their work. ... Jim Jarmusch Jim Jarmusch (born January 22, 1953 in Akron, Ohio, USA) is a noted film director. ... Steve Buscemi Steve Buscemi (born December 13, 1957 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American film and stage character actor. ... Vincent Gallo Vincent Gallo (born 11 April 1962) is a movie actor and director starring in a number of independent movies. ... Remodernist film developed in the United States and England in the late 1990s and early 21st century and is related to the British art movement Stuckism and its manifesto, Remodernism. ...

The filmmakers mainly associated with the movement included Amos Poe, Eric Mitchell, Beth B and Scott B, Vivienne Dick, John Lurie, Becky Johnston, and James Nares. Amos Poe is a NYC filmmaker associated with the birth of No Wave Cinema and most recently with the new movement of Remodernist Film. ... Vivienne Dick is an Irish experimental and documentary filmmaker. ... John Lurie (December 14, 1952) is an actor, musician, and producer born in Worcester, Massachusetts, USA. In 1978 he formed The Lounge Lizards, initially a tongue-in-cheek fake-jazz combo with his brother Evan. ... James Nares (April 19, 1715 - February 10, 1783) was an English composer of mostly sacred vocal works, though he also composed for the harpsichord and organ. ...

See Also

• experimental film