Lung Leg (born Elisabeth Carr; July 8, 1963, in

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movement.

Film career

Lung Leg appeared in several Richard Kern films, notably starring in one of his longest features, the 1985 film ''You Killed Me First,'' as well as appearing in ''Worm Movie'' (1985) and ''Fingered'' (1986). She also appeared in two music videos directed by Kern, "Concubine" (1984) by

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and

's " Death Valley '69" (1985). After her film career in the 1980s, Lung Leg left the public sphere for several years.

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wrote in his autobiography, '' Totem of the Depraved'', that she relocated to Minneapolis, before moving back to New York City after a short romance with German musician

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. She resumed her film career in 2005, appearing in the Mike Etoll film ''Sewer Baby.'' In it, she played a bartender dealing with Tiny Tim, various monsters, special effects and a primordial dwarf. In 2011, Lung Leg appeared in '' The Hagstone Demon'', a film directed by Jon Springer. In 2010, Lung Leg appeared in the documentary ''Blank City'' featuring interviews with participants in the no wave cinema and transgressive cinema movements. There are few known interviews with her; one appeared in issue No. 12 of ''

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'' magazine (1987), and another, by Duane Davis, appeared in the book, '' Deathtripping: The Cinema of Transgression'' (1995), edited by Jack Sargent. An excerpt of a now lost video interview of her appears in '' IDN4'' (1991).

References

External links

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''Sewer Baby'' trailer on YouTube
– The official trailer for Mike Etoll's ''Sewer Baby'', featuring Lung Leg.
Crepuscular Planet WCCO 4!
– A goofy prank played live and on the air during a Minneapolis news broadcast in 2002, featuring Lung Leg, Mike Etoll and others.
''You Killed Me First'' (Pt. 1)
on YouTube
''You Killed Me First'' (Pt. 2)
on YouTube
''Submit to Me''
on YouTube
''I Was in a Richard Kern Movie''
on YouTube — Lung Leg and Cruella DeVille discuss their roles in Richard Kern's Super 8 films. {{DEFAULTSORT:Lung Leg Living people 1963 births Actresses from Minneapolis 21st-century American women