Jack Sargeant
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Arts |
| Occupation | writer, curate, lecturer |
| Introduction | Author of Deathtripping: The Cinema of Transgression, Naked Lens: Beat Cinema, Suture, Cinema Contra Cinema. Editor of Death Cults, Bad Cop Bad Cop, co-editor Lost Highways: An Illustrated History of the Road Movie, and No Focus: Punk And Film. Contributor to numerous books, including introductions to books by Joe Coleman, Romain Slocombe, and a fragment by William Burroughs. Writer for numerous magazines: Fortean Times, The Wire, FilmInk, and many others, from highbrow academic journals to sleazy mags. Film festival programmer. Sometimes art curator. It should go without saying that unless otherwise stated everything here is copyrighted. |
| Interests | deserts, wasteland, urban landscapes, alternative forms of cinema, outsiders, art brut, radical culture, eroticism, loud noises, coffee, travel. |
| Favorite movies | visionary filmmakers and films, Bunuel, Herzog, neglected exploitation films, underground film, mondo film, strange documentaries, the films I write about. |
| Favorite music | Current listening: Dirty Three, Nick Cave, Throbbing Gristle, Tindersticks, Sunno))), Earth, Bonnie Prince Billy, Mississippi John Hurt, Whitehouse, Albert Ayler, folkways anthology of American Folk Music. |
| Favorite books | Sexology, Noir / hardboiled literature, pulps, Southern Gothic Literature, beat and related literature, apocalypse culture, investigative journalism, surrealist literature, French philosophy esp Bataille, Foucault, Derrida, etc, forensic. medical textbooks, nosology. |