Zoë Lund

Acting

Zoë Lund

Born 1962-02-09 · New York, New York, USA

Zoë Lund was an American musician, model, actress, author, producer, political activist and screenwriter. She was best known for her association in two films with film director Abel Ferrara: Ms. 45 (1981), in which she starred, and Bad Lieutenant (1992), for which she co-wrote the screenplay.

Acting credits

Times Square poster
6.4

When a 13-year-old girl befriends a defiant antisocial child of the streets, the mismatched runaways set off to the Big Apple to find their own adventure.

Times Square

1980

Bad Lieutenant poster
7.0

While investigating a young nun's rape, a corrupt New York City police detective, with a serious drug and gambling addiction, tries to change his ways and find forgiveness.

Bad Lieutenant

1992

Ms .45 poster
6.7

After being attacked and raped twice in one day, a timid, mute seamstress becomes a violent agent of revenge for wronged women.

Ms .45

1981

Hand Gun poster
4.9

Jack is in the midst of a major robbery, which leaves him injured and his accomplices dead. Jack manages to hide the $500,000 from the robbery before he makes his way to his death bed.

Hand Gun

1994

365 Day Project poster
10.0

This exhibition focuses on Jonas Mekas’ 365 Day Project, a succession of films and videos in calendar form. Every day as of January 1st, 2007 and for an entire year, as indicated in the title, a large public (the artist's friends, as well as unknowns) were invited to view a diary of short films of various lengths (from one to twenty minutes) on the Internet. A movie was posted each day, adding to the previously posted pieces, resulting altogether in nearly thirty-eight hours of moving images.

365 Day Project

2007

Special Effects poster
4.8

Reality and illusion collide as megalomaniacal filmmaker Chris Neville murders a young would-be actress, then sets about making a feature about the deed, casting the deceased's clueless husband as the patsy, and finding a dead ringer to play the late actress.

Special Effects

1984

Dreamland poster
9.0

Small-town gangsters and ambitious young girls meet in "Dreamland", where they exchange nervous kisses and green banknotes.

Dreamland

1997

No artwork available
8.0

Bitch-Beauty is an experimental documentary paralleling the lives of Anne Hanavan, whose experiences as part of the underground scene in the East Village of the 1980s was contemporary with now-deceased actress Zoe Tamerlis Lund, the actor and screenwriter of Bad Lieutenant, who died of a heroin/cocaine overdose in 1999. Using Hanavan's films, performances, readings, and music as well as footage from Lund's work, Bitch-Beauty is an intense seven-minute time capsule of addiction, the perils of street prostitution, and subsequent renewal or revival through cathartic self-expression.

Bitch-Beauty

2011

Heavy Petting poster
5.7

Celebrities and creatives -- including musician David Byrne, performance artist Spalding Gray, comedian Sandra Bernhard, radical activist Abbie Hoffman, and poet Allen Ginsberg-- recall their earliest sexual experiences.

Heavy Petting

1989

Zoe XO poster
6.5

A haunting love story from Robert Lund, Zoe's husband.

Zoe XO

2004

Zoe Rising poster
2.0

A poetic abstract look back at the early childhood life of the late screenwriter and actress Zoe Tamerlis Lund, (Ms.45, The Bad Lieutenant), through the memories of her surviving mother, sculptor Barbara Lekberg.

Zoe Rising

2014

The Self-Destruction of Gia poster
10.0

Filmmaker JJ Martin explores Gia Carangi's life through rare home movies and photos, previously unseen interviews with Gia, and contemporary interviews with family, friends, and associates.

The Self-Destruction of Gia

2003

Hot Ticket poster
5.8

Short film written, directed, and starring Zoë at the Rotterdam Film Festival.

Hot Ticket

1993

Exquisite Corpses poster
3.8

An attractive young cowboy, new to the city, meets a gay casting agent.

Exquisite Corpses

1989

Peter Flechette's the Obvious! poster
NR

Produced by shockumentary genius Charles Gatewood, this mondo film offers a sex/violence mashup in a wee 60 min montage of head slamming romp. It makes you squirm as you're in for female anatomy ironically juxtaposed with extreme violence.

Peter Flechette's the Obvious!

1991

The Houseguest poster
8.0

A low budget spoof of a Bergmannesque summer resort love triangle that ends with a surreal twist.

The Houseguest

1989

Behind the camera