Blonde Death (Baker, 1984): Nickel Cinema, 6pm
This cult movie will be shown via VHS.Nickel Cinema introduction:
Shot on consumer-grade video and circulating for decades as a
near-mythic underground tape, Blonde Death follows the runaway odyssey
of Tammy, a teenage misfit fleeing an abusive home with two queer
outsiders who christen themselves her new family. Their improvised road
trip blends impulsive romance, petty crime, and manic self-invention,
gradually collapsing into violence as the trio drifts further from
stability. The film’s messy exuberance is threaded with a growing sense
of doom, capturing the volatility of youth pushed to the margins. A
seminal artifact of queer DIY cinema, Blonde Death fuses melodrama,
punk energy, and camp excess with unexpectedly sharp social commentary.
Director James Robert Baker — better known for his incendiary fiction —
uses the limitations of shot-on-video production to amplify the film’s
immediacy and emotional rawness. The result is a rare, transgressive
work whose jagged form reflects the precarity, rebellion, and
desperation of its characters, standing at the intersection of outsider
art and queer counterculture.
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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