Editing No wave (section)

===Cinema===

[[No Wave Cinema]] was an underground low-budget film scene in [[Tribeca]] and the [[East Village, Manhattan|East Village]] from the late-1970s to the mid-1980s. Rooted in the gritty, rebellious ethos of the Lower East Side’s no wave [[post-punk]] art scene, No Wave Cinema was marked by its [[DIY]] approach, low budgets, and an unpolished aesthetic that rejected mainstream filmmaking conventions. Musicians, visual artists, and filmmakers converged, regularly working across multiple mediums. This interdisciplinary collaboration and a sense of community was a hallmark of No Wave Cinema. 

Avant-garde filmmakers like [[Andy Warhol]], [[Pier Paolo Pasolini]], [[Jean-Pierre Melville]], [[Rainer Werner Fassbinder]] and [[Jack Smith (film director)|Jack Smith]] were notable influences, as was French [[French New Wave|Nouvelle Vague]] cinema, [[Italian neorealism]], early 1970s intimate low budget European films, such as [[Bernardo Bertolucci]]’s 1972 film [[Last Tango in Paris]], and a general interest in the history of [[film noir]]. Handheld [[Super 8 film camera]]s were initially the means to shoot the films often in the street, in downtown nightclubs, in cars, or apartments using available light.

The first No Wave film was [[Ivan Kral]] and [[Amos Poe]]s 1976 film ''[[The Blank Generation]]'' that explored the No Wave music scene in [[CBGB's]] with the [[Ramones]], [[Talking Heads]], [[Blondie (band)|Blondie]] and [[Patti Smith]], among several others. No Wave filmmakers included [[Amos Poe]], [[Eric Mitchell (filmmaker)|Eric Mitchell]], [[Scott B and Beth B]], [[Jim Jarmusch]], [[Jamie Nares (artist)|Jamie Nares]], [[Coleen Fitzgibbon]], [[Diego Cortez]], [[Charlie Ahearn]], [[Tom DiCillo]], [[Lizzie Borden]], [[Susan Seidelman]], [[Vincent Gallo]], [[Charlie Ahearn]], [[Adele Bertei]], [[David Wojnarowicz]], [[Vivienne Dick]], [[Kiki Smith]], Michael McClard, [[Andrea Callard]] and Seth Tillett.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.luxonline.org.uk/articles/no_wavelength(1).html|title=Luxonline|website=www.luxonline.org.uk}}</ref> Eric Mitchell’s 1985 film ''[[The Way It Is (film)|The Way It Is or Eurydice in the Avenues]]'' is considered the climatic apogee of low-budget production values of no wave filmmaking as the film’s dialogue track was dubbed over the 35mm film in editing.<ref>[https://www.moma.org/calendar/events/3976] ''The Way It Is or Eurydice in the Avenues'' at [[MoMA]]</ref> 

For many years the scene was centered around the [[Mudd Club]] and [[Colab]]'s New Cinema Screening Room on [[8th Street and St. Mark's Place|St. Marks Place]] in the East Village. No Wave Cinema actors included [[Patti Astor]], [[Steve Buscemi]], [[Cookie Mueller]], [[Debbie Harry]], [[John Lurie]], [[Eric Mitchell (filmmaker)|Eric Mitchell]], [[Rockets Redglare]], [[Vincent Gallo]], [[Duncan Hannah]], [[Anya Phillips]], [[Rene Ricard]], [[Arto Lindsay]], [[Tom Wright (American actor)|Tom Wright]], [[Richard Hell]], and [[Lydia Lunch]].{{cn|date=December 2024}}