Manhattan Love Suicides

Manhattan Love Suicides (1985)

A series of short films by Richard Kern: Stray Dogs, Woman At The Wheel, Thrust In Me, & I Hate You Now.

Date of release
1985-01-01
TMDB
5.7 / 10 (13)
Runtime
35m
Genres
Drama, Horror, Romance
Director
Richard Kern, Nick Zedd

Casting

Interesting facts

The Manhattan Love Suicides is a 1985 American underground comedy film series written, produced and directed by Richard Kern. It consists of four short films: Stray Dogs, Woman at the Wheel, Thrust in Me, and I Hate You Now.

Background

Similarly to other New York underground films of the Reagan era, Manhattan Love Suicides is deliberately seeking to outrage and violate morals and sensibilities, as well as to break boundaries. The film also clearly pays tribute to earlier revolutionary filmmakers, such as Kenneth Anger, Paul Morrissey, Andy Warhol and John Waters.

Richard Kern has admitted in interviews that during the time he was filming Manhattan Love Suicides he was using heroin and other drugs. He and his films are prominently mentioned in Jack Sargeant's book Deathtripping: The Cinema of Transgression (1995).

Performance artist and activist David Wojnarowicz, who is featured in the first segment of the anthology, died of AIDS seven years after the film was released.

Between December 1, 2017, and March 26, 2018, Manhattan Love Suicides was screened at the MoMA as part of the "New York Film and Video: No Wave–Transgressive" survey on New York's post-punk period.

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