No wave cinema

No Wave Cinema was a nearly nine year boom (1976-1985) in underground filmmaking on the Lower East Side. This brief movement, also known as “New Cinema” (after a short-lived screening room on St. Mark’s Place run by several filmmakers on the scene), had a significant impact on both underground film, spawning the Cinema of Transgression (Beth B, Richard Kern, Nick Zedd, Tessa Hughes Freeland and others) and the notion of mainstream independent film in New York (Jim Jarmusch, Tom DiCillo, Steve Buschemi and Vincent Gallo), as well as the new movement of Remodernist film.