Baby Doll (1982)

• 69%
• 1982
• Documentary
• Tessa Hughes-Freeland

In 1984 the manifesto for the Cinema of Transgression was announced, a movement looking to transform values by breaking all taboos of cinematic expression, conservative religion, politics and aesthetics. "If its not transgressive, its not underground. It has to be threatening the status quo by doing something surprising, not just imitating whats been done before." - Nick Zedd. We who have violated the laws, commands and duties of the avant-garde; i.e. to bore, tranquilize and obfuscate through a fluke process dictated by practical convenience stand guilty as charged. We openly renounce and reject the entrenched academic snobbery which erected a monument to laziness known as structuralism and proceeded to lock out those filmmakers who possesed the vision to see through this charade. Etc.