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==Other art media in the no wave scene==
===Cinema===

[[No Wave Cinema]] was an underground low-budget film scene in [[Tribeca]] and the [[East Village, Manhattan|East Village]] from the late-1970s to the mid-1980s. Rooted in the gritty, rebellious ethos of the Lower East Side's no wave [[post-punk]] art scene, No Wave Cinema was marked by its [[DIY]] approach, low budgets, and an unpolished aesthetic that rejected mainstream filmmaking conventions. Musicians, visual artists, and filmmakers converged, regularly working across multiple mediums. This interdisciplinary collaboration and a sense of community was a hallmark of No Wave Cinema. 

Avant-garde filmmakers like [[Andy Warhol]], [[Pier Paolo Pasolini]], [[Jean-Pierre Melville]], [[Rainer Werner Fassbinder]] and [[Jack Smith (film director)|Jack Smith]] were notable influences, as was French [[French New Wave|Nouvelle Vague]] cinema, [[Italian neorealism]], early 1970s intimate low budget European films, such as [[Bernardo Bertolucci]]'s 1972 film [[Last Tango in Paris]], and a general interest in the history of [[film noir]]. Handheld [[Super 8 film camera]]s were initially the means to shoot the films often in the street, in downtown nightclubs, in cars, or apartments using available light.

The first No Wave film was [[Ivan Kral]] and [[Amos Poe|Amos Poe']]s 1976 film, ''[[The Blank Generation]]''. It explored the No Wave music scene in [[CBGB's]] with artists such as the [[Ramones]], [[Talking Heads]], [[Blondie (band)|Blondie]] and [[Patti Smith]], among several others. The second No Wave film was the 1977 short, ''X-Terminator'', directed by [[Michael Oblowitz]]. Oblowitz made the film whilst studying at [[Columbia University]] and editing [[Semiotext(e)]] alongside [[Kathryn Bigelow]] and [[Sylvère Lotringer]]. Further No Wave filmmakers included [[Eric Mitchell (filmmaker)|Eric Mitchell]], [[Scott B and Beth B]], [[Jim Jarmusch]], [[Jamie Nares (artist)|Jamie Nares]], [[Coleen Fitzgibbon]], [[Diego Cortez]], [[Charlie Ahearn]], [[Tom DiCillo]], [[Lizzie Borden]], [[Susan Seidelman]], [[Vincent Gallo]], [[Charlie Ahearn]], [[Adele Bertei]], [[David Wojnarowicz]], [[Vivienne Dick]], [[Kiki Smith]], Michael McClard, [[Andrea Callard]] and Seth Tillett.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.luxonline.org.uk/articles/no_wavelength(1).html|title=Luxonline|website=www.luxonline.org.uk|access-date=14 June 2013|archive-date=30 July 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160730060208/http://www.luxonline.org.uk/articles/no_wavelength(1).html|url-status=live}}</ref> Eric Mitchell's 1985 film ''[[The Way It Is (film)|The Way It Is or Eurydice in the Avenues]]'' is considered the climatic apogee of low-budget production values of no wave filmmaking as the film's dialogue track was dubbed over the 35mm film in editing.<ref>[https://www.moma.org/calendar/events/3976] ''The Way It Is or Eurydice in the Avenues'' at [[MoMA]]</ref> 

For many years the scene was centered around the [[Mudd Club]] and [[Colab]]'s New Cinema Screening Room on [[8th Street and St. Mark's Place|St. Marks Place]] in the East Village. No Wave Cinema actors included [[Patti Astor]], [[Steve Buscemi]], [[Cookie Mueller]], [[Debbie Harry]], [[John Lurie]], [[Eric Mitchell (filmmaker)|Eric Mitchell]], [[Rockets Redglare]], [[Vincent Gallo]], [[Duncan Hannah]], [[Anya Phillips]], [[Rene Ricard]], [[Arto Lindsay]], [[Tom Wright (American actor)|Tom Wright]], [[Richard Hell]], and [[Lydia Lunch]].{{cn|date=December 2024}}

===Visual art===
[[Visual arts|Visual artists]] played a large role in the no wave scene, as visual artists often were playing in bands, or making videos and films, while making visual art for exhibition. An early influence on this aspect of the scene was [[Alan Vega]], whose electronic junk sculpture predated his role in the music group Suicide, which he formed with fellow musician [[Martin Rev]] in 1970. They released ''[[Suicide (1977 album)|Suicide]]'', their first album, in 1977.

Important exhibitions of no wave visual art were [[Barbara Ess]]'s ''[[Just Another Asshole]]'' show and subsequent compilation projects and [[Colab]]'s organization of ''[[The Real Estate Show]]'', ''[[The Times Square Show]]'',{{sfn|Masters|2007|p=19}}<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.timessquareshowrevisited.com/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120830204010/http://www.timessquareshowrevisited.com/|url-status=usurped|archive-date=30 August 2012|title=Times Square Show Revisited|website=www.timessquareshowrevisited.com}}</ref> and the ''Island of Negative Utopia'' show at [[The Kitchen (art institution)|The Kitchen]].<ref>{{Cite book|last=Boch|first=Richard|title=The Mudd Club|publisher=[[Feral House]]|year=2017|isbn=978-1-62731-051-2|location=Port Townsend, Washington|page=332|oclc=972429558}}</ref><ref>Goldstein, Richard, "The First Radical Art Show of the '80s", ''[[Village Voice]]'' 16, June 1980, pp. 31–32</ref>

No wave art found an ongoing home on the [[Lower East Side]] with the establishment of [[ABC No Rio]] Gallery in 1980, and a no wave punk aesthetic was a dominant strand in the art galleries of the East Village (from 1982 to 1986).<ref name="ReferenceA"/>

In 2023, the visual arts of no wave<ref>Nicolas Ballet, ''Shock Factory: The Visual Culture of [[Industrial Music]]''. [[Intellect Books]]</ref> was featured at the Paris [[Centre Pompidou]] in a Nicolas Ballet curated exhibition entitled ''Who You Staring At: Visual culture of the no wave scene in the 1970s and 1980s''.<ref>[https://www.centrepompidou.fr/en/collection/film-and-new-media/who-you-staring-at] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240626055105/https://www.centrepompidou.fr/en/collection/film-and-new-media/who-you-staring-at |date=26 June 2024 }} ''Who You Staring At?: Visual culture of the no wave scene in the 1970s and 1980s'' February 1 – June 19, 2023, Film, Video, Sound and Digital Collections</ref> Video interviews documenting no wave aesthetics were held and published online at the Pompidou website.<ref>[https://www.centrepompidou.fr/en/program/calendar/event/GKIsi5r] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250613195147/https://www.centrepompidou.fr/en/program/calendar/event/GKIsi5r |date=13 June 2025 }} Projection and discussion of ''XS: The Opera Opus An Operatic Transvaluation of No Wave Aesthetics by Joseph Nechvatal and Rhys Chatham'' March 8, 2023</ref>