The following is a list of
film directors associated with making
punk films:
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Abiola Abrams
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Greg Araki
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Sadie Benning
Sadie T. Benning (born April 11, 1973) is an American artist, who has worked primarily in video, painting, drawing, sculpture, photography and sound. Benning creates experimental films and explores a variety of themes including surveillance, ge ...
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Anonymous Boy
Tony Arena (born circa 1965, Franklin Square, New York) – also known by his pen name Anonymous Boy – is an openly queer artist, writer, and filmmaker. He is known for his comics, his involvement in the queercore movement, and other contributi ...
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Lynn Breedlove
Lynn Breedlove (also known as Lynnee Breedlove) is an American musician, writer, and performer who was born in Oakland, California, United States.
Early life
Lynn Breedlove was born in and grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area during early child ...
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Tammy Rae Carland
Tammy Rae Carland (born January 27, 1965), is a photographer, video artist, zine editor, current provost at California College of the Arts (CCA), and former co-owner of the independent lesbian music label Mr. Lady Records and Videos. Her work has ...
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Billy Childish
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Wolf Howard
Wolf Howard (born 7 April 1968)Evans, p.36. is an English artist, poet and filmmaker living in Rochester, Kent and was a founder member of the Stuckists art group.Milner, p.80. He is also a drummer who has played in garage and punk bands, cu ...
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Alex Cox
Alexander B. H. Cox (born 15 December 1954) is an English film director, screenwriter, actor, non-fiction author and broadcaster. Cox experienced success early in his career with '' Repo Man'' and ''Sid and Nancy'', but since the release and co ...
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Vaginal Davis
Vaginal Davis (born in Los Angeles, California) is an American performing artist, painter, independent curator, composer, filmmaker and writer. Born intersex and raised in South Central, Los Angeles, Davis gained notoriety in New York during the ...
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Vivienne Dick
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Wynne Greenwood
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Sogo Ishii
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Sarah Jacobson
Sarah Jacobson (August 25, 1971 – February 13, 2004) was an American film director, screenwriter, and producer.
Early life
Jacobson was born in Connecticut, moved to New Jersey in 1975, then to Edina, Minnesota in 1982. She graduated with ho ...
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Derek Jarman
Michael Derek Elworthy Jarman (31 January 1942 – 19 February 1994) was an English artist, film maker, costume designer, stage designer, writer, gardener and gay rights activist.
Biography
Jarman was born at the Royal Victoria Nursing Home ...
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G. B. Jones
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Miranda July
Miranda July (born Miranda Jennifer Grossinger; February 15, 1974) is an American film director, screenwriter, singer, actress and author. Her body of work includes film, fiction, monologue, digital presentations and live performance art.
She w ...
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Lech Kowalski
Lech Kowalski (born 1951) is an American film director of Polish descent. He was born in London to Polish parents.
His most notable film is the documentary, ''D.O.A.'', subtitled ''A Rite of Passage'', which chronicled the burgeoning UK punk sce ...
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Richard Kern
Richard Kern (born 1954) is an American underground filmmaker, writer and photographer. He first came to prominence as part of the cultural explosion in the East Village of New York City in the 1980s, with erotic and experimental films like ...
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Bruce LaBruce
Bruce LaBruce (born January 3, 1964) is a Canadian artist, writer, filmmaker, photographer, and underground director based in Toronto.
Life and career
LaBruce was born in Tiverton, Ontario. He has claimed both Justin Stewart and Bryan Bruce as ...
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Don Letts
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Juliana Lueking
* Jackson Low
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Leslie Mah
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David Markey
David Markey (born December 3, 1963 in Burbank, California, United States) is an American film director.
Biography
As a self-taught filmmaker and musician, David Markey directed, produced, edited, and photographed most of his films, the majori ...
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James Merendino
James Anthony Merendino (born January 11, 1969) is an American film director and screenwriter who is best known for directing the 1998 film ''SLC Punk!''.
Life
Merendino was born in Long Branch, New Jersey, and moved to Salt Lake City, Utah whe ...
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Eric Mitchell (filmmaker)
Eric Mitchell is a French born writer, director and actor who moved to downtown New York City in the early 1970s. He has acted in many No Wave films such as '' Permanent Vacation'' (1980) by Jim Jarmusch, but is best known for his own films th ...
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John Cameron Mitchell
John Cameron Mitchell (born April 21, 1963) is a two-time Tony Award winning American actor, playwright, screenwriter, singer, songwriter, producer and director. He is best known as the writer, director and star of the 2001 film '' Hedwig and th ...
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Jon Moritsugu
Jon Moritsugu (born February 15, 1965) is an American cult- underground filmmaker.
His movies are satiric, protopunk deconstructions of popular genres and formats with scabrous and pointedly garish results.
The ''New York Times'' describes them ...
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Amos Poe
Amos Poe is an American New York City-based director and screenwriter, described by ''The New York Times'' as a "pioneering indie filmmaker."
Career
Amos Poe is one of the first punk filmmakers and his film '' The Blank Generation'' (1976)—c ...
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Jesse Richards
Jesse Richards (born July 17, 1975) is a painter, filmmaker and photographer from New Haven, Connecticut and was affiliated with the international movement Stuckism. He has been described as "one of the most provocative names in American underg ...
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Susan Seidelman
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Harris Smith
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Jean Smith
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Martin Sorrondeguy
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Penelope Spheeris
Penelope Spheeris (born December 2, 1945 or 1946; sources differ) is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter. She has directed both documentary and scripted films. Her best-known works include the trilogy titled '' The Decline of ...
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James Spooner
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Julien Temple
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Lucy Thane
Lucy Thane (born 1967) is a British documentary filmmaker, event producer and performer, living in Folkestone. Her films include ''It Changed My Life: Bikini Kill in the UK'' (1993) and ''She's Real (Worse than Queer)'' (1997).
Life and work
Thane ...
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Tõnu Trubetsky
Tõnu Trubetsky (born 24 April 1963), also known as Tony Blackplait, is an Estonian punk rock/glam punk musician, film and music video director, and individualist anarchist.
Political activity
Trubetsky is a former member of the Estonian Gree ...
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Nicholas Watson
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Brad Will
Bradley Roland Will (June 14, 1970 – October 27, 2006) was an American activist, videographer and journalist. He was affiliated with Indymedia. On October 27, 2006, during a labor dispute in the Mexican city of Oaxaca, Will was shot twice, ...
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Nick Zedd
Nick may refer to:
* Nick (given name)
* A cricket term for a slight deviation of the ball off the edge of the bat
* British slang for being arrested
* British slang for a police station
* British slang for stealing
* Short for nickname
Place ...
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Mu Tunc
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Punk
Punk or punks may refer to:
Genres, subculture, and related aspects
* Punk rock, a music genre originating in the 1970s associated with various subgenres
* Punk subculture, a subculture associated with punk rock, or aspects of the subculture s ...