Lydia Lunch
Known for: Acting
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.
Filmography
Series
70 Years of Youth Revolt
Self (archive footage)
2020
Film
The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things
Social Worker #2
2004
Film
Subway Riders
1981
Film
Mutantes: Punk Porn Feminism
Self - Interviewee
2009
Film
The Offenders
Lydia
1980
Film
Penn & Teller's Invisible Thread
1987
Film
Fake Orgasm
2010
Film
Bye Bye Blondie
La chanteuse
2012
Film
Autoluminescent: Rowland S. Howard
Self
2011
Film
Black Box
Torturer
1979
Film
Submit to Me Now
1987
Series
The Ripple Effect
Self
2016
Film
Blank City
Self
2011
Film
L7: Pretend We're Dead
Self
2017
Film
Guerillère Talks
Herself
1978
Love Diptych
Flood Stains
Saltmaster
2010
Her Noise - The Making Of
2006
Film
Barbecue Death Squad From Hell
Herself
1986
Film
Mondo New York
Prologue
1988
Alien Portrait
Self
1979
Kiss My Grits: The Herstory of Women in Punk and Hard Rock
Self
2001
Film
Gang of Souls: A Generation of Beat Poets
Self
1989
Film
Godkiller: Walk Among Us
Bub (voice)
2010
Lydia Lunch: Malicious Intent
1994
No Wave - Underground '80: Berlin - New York
Self
2009
Film
Lydia Lunch: The War Is Never Over
Self
2019
Film
Kill Your Idols
Self
2004
Thanatopsis
Herself
1991
No Age New York
Herself
1993
Kill Your Idols: More.
Self
2006
Film
The Hardcore Collection
2000
Film
Put More Blood Into the Music
Herself
1988
Film
Vortex
Angel Powers
1982
Film
Cruel Tricks for Dear Friends
Self
1987
Film
The Gun Is Loaded
Herself
1989
Film
My Lover The Killer
2020
Film
Submit to Me
1985
Film
Spit and Ashes
2019
Film
Raw Nerves: A Lacanian Thriller
1980
D.I.Y. or Die: How to Survive as an Independent Artist
Herself - Interviewee
2002
Film
Kiss Napoleon Goodbye
Hedda
1990
Film
Road Rant: A Week on the Road with Lydia Lunch
Self
2012
Film
Punking Out
Self
1978
Film
Baby Trouble Hole
Performer
1996
Film
She Had Her Gun All Ready
1978
Film
Dance of the Dead Children
1982
Film
Lydia Lunch: Video Hysterie: 1978 - 2006
Herself
2008
Wild Thing
Self
2012
Death of the Reel
Narrator
2008
Like Dawn to Dust
1983
Film
Richard Kern - Portrait: Live From New York
1997
American Fame Pt. 2: Forgetting Jonathan Brandis
Narrator
2005
Film
Beauty Becomes the Beast
1979
The Circular Ruins
Night (voice)
2014
No New York Festival - Berlin
Self
1979
Film
Die Haut - Sweat
Self
1994
Film
The Wild World of Lydia Lunch
Herself
1983
Film
Rome '78
Empress
1978
Film
The Agony Is The Ecstacy
1982
Film
Llik Your Idols
Herself
2007
Kill Us All
2014
Film
For the End of Time
2009
Film
NYC Foetus
Herself
2009
Film
Visiting Desire
Sitter
1996
School of Shame
1984
Film
The Right Side of My Brain
Narrator
1984
Film
Fingered
1986
Film
The Hardcore Collection
(archive footage)
2012