UNLOCKED Cinema of Transgression (w/ Michael M. Bilandic)

In memoriam to the Cinema of Transgression pioneer Nick Zedd's passing, we have removed the paywall from this episode with filmmaker Michael M. Bilandic Adam and filmmaker Michael M. Bilandic have been mutuals on social media for a little while now, but it wasn't until Mubi recently made Michael's films available on its streaming platform that Adam found himself burning through Michael's work and was thoroughly impressed. A frustrated artist exploits a rural horrorcore group in 'Hellaware', a raving delivery man accidentally kills a famous client in 'Jobe'z World', a performance artist locks himself in a cell as the Floyd riots rage outside in last year's 'Project Space 13'; while taking place in a tightly contained and well-crafted cinema universe, Michael's films mirror the reality of living in the contemporary culture industries to an uncanny degree. Michael joins Adam and Will here to discuss not only his own films, but also Adam and Michael's shared love of Nick Zedd and the Cinema of Transgression, Michael's time working at legendary defunct East Village shop Kim's Video and Music, the crypto-transgression of Todd Phillips and 'Joker', and Bilandic's work with film art icon Abel Ferrara. SOUNDTRACK: Young Torture Killaz  "Cut Yo Dick Off" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDl2hpkxH5Y Pissgrave "Euthanasia" https://music.apple.com/us/album/euthanasia/1447411867?i=1447411868 The Skaters "Untitled 2" https://youtu.be/0hjiUWhZoIY Strangulated Beatoffs "Earth To Satan" https://music.apple.com/us/album/earth-to-satan/1082819667?i=1082820179 Overkill "Rotten To The Core" https://music.apple.com/us/album/rotten-to-the-core/1495646750?i=1495646755 Ultravox "Vienna" https://music.apple.com/us/album/vienna/1145526695?i=1145526836 Abel Ferrara on the making of 'Driller Killer' https://youtu.be/7CgINuXB2As LINKS: Michael M. Bilandic Twitter: @_RareArt https://twitter.com/_rareart Michael M. Bilandic Instagram: @m1kebillz Michael M. Bilalandic films at Mubi https://mubi.com/cast/michael-m-bilandic On the films of Michael M. Bilandic https://mubi.com/notebook/posts/the-ww-world-viewed-reflections-on-the-films-of-michael-m-bilandic Watch Nick Zedd's 'Bogus Man' https://ubu.com/film/zedd_bogus.html Watch Nick Zedd compilation https://ubu.com/film/zedd_abnormal_01.html Watch Nick Zedd's 'War is Menstrual Energy' https://ubu.com/film/zedd_war.html Nick Zedd CoT manifesto https://ubu.com/film/transgression.html Richard Kern video interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HXpmk-7NaM Richard Kern 'The Evil Cameraman' https://ubu.com/film/kern_evil.html